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Monday, May 5, 2014

This blog location will be deleted by May 17

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Just a reminder that this blog location has moved to aprildeconick.com.  The blogger location will be deleted on May 17.  We will have a par...
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Monday, April 28, 2014

What are the facts about the Gospel of Jesus' Wife

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To read my post on this, go to aprildeconick.com where my blog has moved.  You can also resubscribe there.  You will be taken there in 5 sec...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Gnostic Thoughts

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Gnostic Spirit

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Forbidden Gospels has moved to aprildeconick.com.  You will be transferred there in 5 seconds where I have just posted on the noetic and num...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Site Has Moved to aprildeconick.com

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Go to aprildeconick.com to read about Grant Adamson who just received his Ph.D.  You will automatically be forwarded to the new address wher...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Forbidden Gospels is moving

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Well I finally made the decision to integrate the Forbidden Gospels blog into my personal website.  You will automatically be redirected to...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Performance of Easter in Memory of Her, Saturday April 19

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I am thrilled to announce that "Easter in Memory of Her" will be performed again this year, on April 19, 4-5 pm, at Christ Church ...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

What do we do with religious experience?

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In the last week, there has been a handful of well-placed pieces on the subject of religious experiences and how we go about explaining them...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Very exciting news about the Jesus Wife fragment

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It is very exciting news that the scientific tests have come back with a thumbs up for the antiquity of the papyrus fragment that mentions J...
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Dr. Franklin Trammell

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I am very proud of Franklin Trammell, my first student to finish his thesis and graduate from the Bible and Beyond program at Rice.   Yester...
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Roman Soldier's plight

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My student, Grant Adamson, recently has published a reconstruction of a letter from Roman solider.  Interest in the letter got picked up Owe...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

The Gnostics Were Intellectuals

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Larry Hurtado has posted his opinion of the Gnostics, that they were not intellectuals, but esoterics who taught a bunch of "mumble-gum...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Book Note: Histories of the Hidden God (DeConick and Adamson)

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Click to find book on Amazon Very excited about this new edited volume in the Gnostica Series published by Acumen.  This volume came out...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Book Note: Practicing Gnosis (eds. April DeConick, Gregory Shaw and John Turner)

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I  promised to get some book notes out this week, and lo and behold, it is already Friday and I haven't had a chance to get to my blog u...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Book Note: Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Adam

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I have several new books that have come across my desk recently, but not enough time to get notices out to you about them.  I will try to ca...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

The Humanities and Science

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This semester I am teaching a course on cognitive science and religion.  It is called The Bible and the Brain , and I am writing a book unde...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Book Note: Who Do People Say That I Am? (Vernon K. Robbins)

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There is a fantastic new book just published that covers Jesus and the gospels, canonical as well as extracanonical.  Vernon Robbins, Who Do...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Welcome to our students at Rice

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The academic year for us starts on Monday.  Things are different for me this year because I have become the Chair of the Religious Studies D...
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Monday, June 3, 2013

Humanities and technology

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Working in the trenches of humanities in face of the rise in the last decades of the internet and the overwhelming belief that knowledge is ...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

David Capes' Blog

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I was just on Facebook and noticed that Professor Capes of Houston Baptist University has been keeping a blog on all things religion.  Check...