I am reading Sam Williams's classic essay, "The 'Righteousness of God' in Romans" ( JBL  99.2 [1980]: 241–90) as I wri...

I'm currently reading through Tim Gombis's introductory volume, Paul: A Guide for the Perplexed  (T&T Clark International, 2010)...

I have been reading the published version of Rodrigo Morales's PhD dissertation (Duke, 2007), The Spirit and the Restoration of Israel: ...

According to their website , the current issue of The Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha  is still the December 2010 issue. However...

One of my perennial interests concerns the way we have distinguished Judaism  from Christianity  and the various ways this distinction has a...

BDAG, the standard Greek-English lexicon for NT and early Christian scholarship, gives the following two extended definitions for Ἰουδαῖος, ...

Philip Sellew's article, "Achilles or Christ? Porphyry and Didymus in Debate over Allegorical Interpretation" ( HTR 82 [1989]...

I just finished reading Michael Graves's brief but very interesting article, "'Judaizing' Christian Interpretations of the ...

As I continue to read Ruth A. Clement and Daniel R. Schwartz's edited volume, Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christiani...

I'm coming to the end of Ruth A. Clement and Daniel R. Schwartz's edited volume, Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Chr...

I need some help. I'm reading Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz's edited volume, Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Ear...

Anders Runesson's essay, "From Where? To What? Common Judaism, Pharisees, and the Changing Socioreligious Location of the Matthean ...

As I mentioned previously , I'm reviewing Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz's book, Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and ...

In my essay, " Reading and Hearing in Ancient Contexts " ( JSNT 32/2 [2009]: 151–78), I criticize one NT scholar for portraying t...

In her comments on Mark 1.9–11 , Adela Yarbro Collins appeals to biographies of Greek poets to provide a literary parallel to Mark's acc...

Over the last five years or so I have been growing increasingly aware of and frustrated by the tendency among NT critics to describe early C...

I've begun playing with phrases that might help me get at my problem with the way Jews and Christians (and the relation between them) ...

The Tablet has an essay entitled, " Was Paul a Jew? " which picks up the discussion of Pamela Eisenbaum's new book, Paul Was N...

First an explanatory comment: In my view the function of scholarship is debate and agonizing movement [in the sense of ἀγωνίζομαι ( agōnizom...

I have commented on the word Ἰουδαϊσμός [ Ioudaïsmos ; "Judaism"] twice before, once in a response to Richard Horsley 's claim...