I am really going to miss being at the CGM this year. Stimulating papers, discussion and feedback, and socialising, oh, wish I could be there. I hope that the plans for the CGM to come to South Africa in 2010 will happen, then most can get a taste of SA culture (and of course, food!). Wishing all fellow contexters a great time.

BTW, I have received “The Social World of the New Testament. Insights and Methods” (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008), edited by Jerry Neyrey and Eric Stewart for review in Neotestamentica. At least this will help a bit.

I should also mention that I picked up the book from the wife of Prof Gert Steyn (Department New Testament, University of Pretoria) at the hospital where Prof Steyn was undergoing heart surgery.  Unfortunately I could not see him, but I wish him a speedy recovery.