As you've likely noticed, there have been several changes here at PastoralEpistles.com.
The biggest change is that there is now more than one blogger. In addition to Rick Brannan (yours truly), Perry L. Stepp, Lloyd Pietersen and Ray Van Neste have agreed to begin posting to PastoralEpistles.com.
Perry is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Kentucky Christian University. He's recently had a book published by the Sheffield Phoenix Press, Leadership Succession in the World of the Pauline Circle. He's also presented papers at SBL in the Disputed Paulines group. It's great to have him aboard.
There will likely be at least one more blogger added to the team; more information on that in a future post.
Lloyd is a Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. Here's some further information on Dr. Pietersen from his web site:
Dr Lloyd Pietersen obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield. His thesis has been published as The Polemic of the Pastorals: A Sociological Examination of the Development of Pauline Christianity (JSNTSup 264; London/New York: T & T Clark International, 2004). He is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol and is co-chair of the Social World of the New Testament Seminar at the British New Testament Conference.
Ray is Assistant Professor of Christian Studies and Director of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University. He is also author of Cohesion and Structure in the Pastoral Epistles (JSNTSup 280; Lonon/New York: T&T Clark International, 2004). And he has his own personal blog too.
What is this site all about, then?
Well, it's about the Pastoral Epistles. Folks who blog here have a more-than-average interest in the Pastorals. We'll blog about stuff like:
- Quick reviews of books, articles, chapters, etc. that we read that have to do with the Pastorals. The same book or article may be discussed by multiple authors on the site.
- Extended reviews.
- Reviews of or interaction with conference presentations or papers.
- Interaction with other web sites, blog posts, etc. that mention things that primarily or tangentially refer to the Pastoral Epistles.
- Thoughts, musings and whatnot. We'll feel free to use the blog as a scratch pad of sorts as we think through topics or exegetical points having to do with the Pastoral Epistles.
- Whatever else seems interesting to us, as long as we can relate it back to the Pastorals.
If you're familiar with the older PastoralEpistles.com site, it is still available at http://www.pastoralepistles.com/oldsite. Content may or may not migrate over to the new site.
Anyway, thanks for your support of the site. Please bear with us while we get the place set up. And please do update your RSS / Feed reader links. The new link is http://pastoralepistles.com/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss. You can use this in any feedreader/aggregator or online tool such as BlogLines.
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