I have about an hour or so before I need to run some errands, so I returned to Dale Allison's book, Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagin...

Fall 2011 semester classes at Johnson Bible College University started this morning. The summer was great (busy, but great), and it always ...

In his analysis of Pontius Pilate in the Fourth Gospel ( Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John  [Milton Keynes: Patern...

Christopher Tuckett provides an eighteen-page essay that surveys Birger Gerhardsson's nearly five-decade critique of form criticism as w...

This week in my first-year introduction to Jesus and the gospels we're flying through source criticism and the Synoptic Problem. This vi...

Here's a brief presentation of two prominent NT scholars' views of Jesus. I've heard John Dominic Crossan speak in person and E....

This is a little late. In my news reader I've kept unread Paul Anderson's essay, " A Forth Quest for Jesus . . . So What, and H...

In my freshman-level Gospel Narratives course I have a lesson on "Jesus' Disciples" that tries to explore the significance and...

Despite all the rancor that accompanies NT scholarship, we do all agree (for the most part) on a few things. Two of those things, I think, r...

It is well known among those of us who read the gospels that Matthew structures Jesus' teaching into five large discourses. The second o...

I've picked up again an article I began writing last July and will hopefully have its first draft finished this week or next. More on th...

The historical significance of Jesus' mode of execution is a complicated matter. On the one hand, scholars (e.g., John Dominic Crossan) ...

I was sent home by the campus nurse late this morning with symptoms that might be early signs of swine flu. Though I have been washing my h...

Today is the first day of Fall 2009 classes for undergraduate students at Johnson Bible College. It should be a great semester; last night w...

I'd like to solicit your help, because I'm quite sure I must not understand what I've just read. I'm preparing some reading ...

I fell a bit behind in my reading and so have only just now picked up the second-most-recent issue of Bulletin for Biblical Research ( 19.1...

I'm currently developing a lecture entitled, "Jesus and Torah," for my first-year Gospel Narratives course. Few things, for me...

Okay, so this post's title is a bit of a non sequitur . Source and redaction criticism ARE gospels scholarship, so they can't be at ...

I'm writing a lesson on Jesus' selection of and relationship to the Twelve (disciples, that is), and I'm having to make a decisi...

Brandon Wason has as good an introductory discussion on Sitz im Leben  as one could ask for here , including a reference to a recent article...