James Charlesworth pours some much needed cold water on the so-called "Lost Gospel"
Tony Burke on Christmas stories in Christian Apocrypha
You can read Yael Shahar in Haaretz on the great Hanukkah cover-up, though perhaps you should read Gedalia Alon's "Did the Nation and its Sages Forget the Hasmoneans?" instead
Friend of AJR Seth Schwartz on Hanukkah: "There's no meaning; there's just history." HT to Josh Schwartz
The Society for Biblical Literature's Call for Papers is up
Our series on early Jewish-Christian relations at the SBL continues with contributions from Adele Reinhartz and Ra'anan Boustan
Announcing a new journal, "Religion in the Roman Empire"
Michael Kruger on early lists of NT writings via Larry Hurtado's blog