Blogging Plans for 2011

I plan to go a whole different route this year where it concerns my blogging. I want to particularly focus in on the historical aspect of biblical studies, especially where it concerns the textual reliability of the Bible, the historical Jesus, Paul, and other similar subjects. I am also going to keep pressing the resurrection issue as well as the topic of the Kingdom of God (a pending, upcoming paper will be electronically published). I've created a reading list for myself that I will share with you guys below (in order by author).

Richard Bauckham:

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels As Eyewitness Testimony

The Jewish World around the New Testament

Darrell Bock:

Jesus According to Scripture: Restoring the Portrait from the Gospels 

Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods

Jesus in Context: Background Readings for Gospel Study

James D. G. Dunn

Jesus Remembered (Christianity in the Making, Vol. 1)

Beginning from Jerusalem (Christianity in the Making, vol. 2)

Craig Evans:

Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature

Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

Gary Habermas

The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ

Craig S. Keener

The Historical Jesus of the Gospels: Jesus in Historical Context

Robert E. Van Voorst

Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Studying the Historical Jesus)

N. T. Wright:

New Testament and the People of God

Jesus and the Victory of God

Resurrection of the Son of God  (already 400 pages in)

The above list isn't meant to be comprehensive, but these are some of the ones I plan on reading over the next year or so (see a fuller list, here). If anyone has a book to recommend that is along the lines of the topic(s) above, leave a comment with the suggestion! 

I also plan on fully transitioning to my WordPress blog. This is because it has a lot more features than does blogger. You can upload files (doc, docx, pdf, etc.) on WordPress--something you can't do on blogger, also it has working footnotes (!), and other little features that blogger doesn't. 

So, I think this might be the end of the road for this blog...