How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Early Christianity
Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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Developing Genre: St. Augustine and David Foster Wallace – By Bradley M. Peper
Bradley M. Peper on Jennifer V. Ebbeler’s Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one
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The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North
Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom
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How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring
M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes
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Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity
James Carleton Paget on F. Stanley Jones’s Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque inter Judaeochristiana F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of
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How did Origen Vindicate God Amidst the Horrors of Evil and Suffering?
Peter Martens on Mark S.M. Scott’s Journey Back to God Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least
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When did the “Easter Faith” Emerge?
Mark Edwards on Geza Vermes’s Christian Beginnings This book may be regarded as a synthesis of positions which have been defended by its
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The NA28 is Here. But Don’t Scrap Your 27th Just Yet.
Peter Williams on the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28 If I were just allowed one book to assist my study of the New
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