Since so many other bloggers are covering the Society of Biblical Literature conference (see the reports and links by Mark Goodacre, Jim Davila, Torrey Seland, and Stephen Carlson), I will say little. The session on meals in the Greco-Roman world, in which I presented my paper on transgressive meals, was quite enjoyable. And I managed to get to some early Christian Apocrypha papers, including one (timely) paper on the Gospel of Philip, which I will return to shortly (coincidentally we are reading the Gospel of Philip for next week’s class). I arrived late for the biblioblogging session but found it interesting, and it was nice to put faces to the names.

I also picked up some books, including Stephen Carlson’s The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith’s Invention of Secret Mark, which is certainly an exciting read. I will likely comment on what I think soon. Is this really the smoking gun?