Journal articleBiblical Interpretation · January 1, 2022
Erasure History is a subset of the discipline of counter-factual history, an exploration in imagining history without a work that scholars see as pivotal. Erasing Mark's gospel provides a fruitful thought experiment about the key role it plays in current s ...
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Journal articleJournal for the Study of the New Testament · September 1, 2021
Although the term ‘empty tomb’ is endemic in contemporary literature, it is never used in the earliest Christian materials. The term makes little sense in the light of first-century Jerusalem tombs, which always housed multiple people. One absent body woul ...
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Journal articleJournal of Biblical Literature · January 1, 2014
Robert McIver and Marie Carroll published an article in JBL in 2002 in which they discussed experiments with Australian undergraduate students that might help with determining the existence of written sources in the Gospels. They suggested that sixteen wor ...
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Journal articleJournal for the Study of the New Testament · January 1, 2014
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Stephen Patterson and John Kloppenborg have written appreciative but critical reviews of the books by Simon Gathercole and Mark Goodacre. This response focuses on several key elements in their critiques: Thomas's role in second-and fou ...
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Journal articleJournal for the Study of the New Testament · June 1, 2013
James Robinson's narrative of how the Nag Hammadi codices were discovered is popular and compelling, a piece of fine investigative journalism that includes intrigue and blood vengeance. But there are several different, conflicting versions of the story, in ...
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Journal articleJournal for the Study of the New Testament · 2001
Study of the Synoptic Problem is often thought to be outdated, irrelevant and dull. We know the solution and we ought to spend time on newer, more exciting approaches to the New Testament. Yet one of those newer approaches, the study of the New Testament i ...
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Journal articleReviews in Religion & Theology · 2000
Books reviewed in this article:Mark Allan Powell, The Jesus Debate: Modern Historians Investigate the Life of ChristPhillip J. Cunningham, A Believer's Search for the Jesus of HistoryClive Marsh and Steve Moyise, Jesus and the Gospels: An IntroductionN. T. ...
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Journal articleJournal of Religion and Film · October 1, 1999
Jesus Christ Superstar (dir. Norman Jewison, 1973) is a hybrid which, though influenced by Jesus films, also transcends them. Its rock opera format and its focus on Holy Week make it congenial to the adaptation of the Gospels and its characterization of a ...
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Journal articleReviews in Religion & Theology · 1999
Book reviewed in this article: Gerd Theissen & Annette Merz The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide ...
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Journal articleReviews in Religion & Theology · 1997
Exploring the Gospel of John: Essays in Honor of D. Moody Smith, R. Alan Culpepper and C. Clifton Black (eds)Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Writings, Majella Franzmann, T. & T. ClarkRenewal through Suffering: A Study of II Corinthians, A. E. Harvey, T. & T. Clar ...
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