Those of you who know Romans (and Paul) better than I, I would like to ask you a favor: Help me understand why my revisionist reading of Rom...

Martin Jaffee is probably one of my favorite scholars of oral tradition and the relation between orally transmitted and actualized material ...

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

In Albert Baumgarten's essay, "Pharisaic Authority: Prophecy and Power ( Antiquities 17.41–45)" ( Common Judaism: Explorations...

In my previous post I took up Susan Haber's essay, "Common Judaism, Common Synagogue? Purity, Holiness, and Sacred Space at the Tu...

I've assigned the edited volume, Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism (Wayne O. McCready adn Adele Reinhartz, eds.; Mi...

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

Leaving a friend's house yesterday I stopped at the local Oxfam to see if they had any interesting books. I'm glad I did, because th...