A New Synoptic Gospel? – by Sarah E. Rollens
Sarah E. Rollens on James Barker’s John’s Use of Matthew For someone outside the field, New Testament scholarship can occasionally appear to be
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Grace and Transformation – By Susan Eastman
Susan Eastman on John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift In a remarkable movie called “The Fisher King” (1991), Robin Williams plays a homeless
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Marcion and the Ideology of Texts – By Judith Lieu
Judith Lieu on Dieter Roth’s The Text of Marcion’s Gospel The name “Marcion” will evoke one or both of two images. The first
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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Politics and Paul: Reviewing N.T. Wright’s Political Apostle – By Michael Thate
Michael Thate on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God “There is […] an elusively expansive cultural revolution curled up, as if still
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N.T. Wright and the Lutheran-ness of Paul – By Douglas A. Campbell
Douglas A. Campbell on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God is the climactic study
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Many Roads Lead from Arimathea – By Ian Boxall
Ian Boxall on William John Lyons’ Joseph of Arimathea Whatever happened to Joseph of Arimathea? Appearing fleetingly in the gospel narratives of Jesus’s burial, he
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Crumbling Criteria: Constructing an Authentic Jesus – By Helen Bond
Helen Bond on Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne’s Jesus Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity Historical Jesus work used to be easy. Cocooned
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Matthew’s Reaction to Mark’s Innovation – By Michael J. Kok
Michael J. Kok on J. Andrew Doole’s What was Mark for Matthew? If Matthew, Mark, and Luke were students handing in their Gospels as
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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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