Category: Updates

Dear IBR Colleagues, Great things are taking place in IBR these days, both in our Annual Meeting program, as well as in our publications. Let me share a few with you. As an affiliate of SBL, our program is published this year in the SBL program book. We remain 100% in charge of our own…

Dear IBR Colleagues, I trust that your year is going well; that you are finding opportunities for stimulating research, writing, and teaching. As I visit churches, whether to preach, teach, or simply to experience the joy of Christian worship, I am regularly reminded of the importance of what we do. For years now we have…

The IBR Jesus Group has been meeting annually since 1999 to consider twelve key events in Jesus’ life for which the group thought it could show core authenticity and the combination of which made a case for what Jesus’ mission was about. The project also has introductory and concluding essays that were discussed.  Robert Webb…

Dear Colleagues, I trust that your summer has gone well and that you were both enriched by your experiences and grew in your discipline. Several of our members have contacted me over the summer and their travels have taken them around the globe lecturing, researching, producing documentaries on the life of Jesus (a further report…

Dear Colleagues: I am honored and humbled to come to you in my new role as president of IBR. I have admired the significant work of my predecessors in this role, and especially Daniel Block who has been most helpful in passing on the baton to me and who continues to offer use full and…

Dear Fellows, Associates, and Friends of IBR: Greetings in the name of Jesus. By now many of you will have made your room and plane reservations for our annual meetings, this year to be held in Washington, DC. I am looking forward to this meeting, not only for the delight we find in each others’…

Dear Colleagues: Greetings in the name of Jesus. The summer has flown by and now most of us will be getting into the routine of the fall semester. We have made the move north and are grateful to Wheaton College for the warm reception they have given us. We look forward to a good year…

Dear Fellows, Associates, and Friends of IBR: Greetings in the name of Jesus. In a little more than two months many of us will be making our way to San Antonio. I am looking forward to seeing you there and am confident you will find the annual meetings on November 19-21 intellectually stimulating and spiritually…

Dear Fellows, Associates, and Friends of IBR: Greetings in the name of Jesus. A month from now many of us will be making our way to Atlanta. I am looking forward to seeing many of you there and confident you will find the annual meetings stimulating. I anticpate with eagerness the papers read by Richard…

For some time BBRSup has not been able to publish recent Ph.D. dissertations and theses as part of the series. We are now launching a new BBR Dissertation Series (BBRDiss) to be published by Gorgias Press.  While retaining our relationship with Eisenbrauns for the BBRSup, we will also publish the best of academic dissertations and…