Greg Monette has raised some helpful questions about the criterion of embarrassment and especially my essay in Chris Keith and Anthony Le Do...

On The Jesus Blog Anthony Le Donne and Chris Keith have published the schedule for the up-coming Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authent...

As Mark Goodacre has already noted , the Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity  Conference, scheduled for 4–5 October 2012, has be...

Over on Exploring our Matrix James McGrath has responded to my comments on Tom Holmén's treatment of the authenticity criteria in the E...

I'm currently reading Tom Holmén's entry, "Authenticity Criteria," which appears in the Encyclopedia of the Historical Jes...

I begin with an obvious point: Humans exhibit significant limitations regarding the ability to describe and/or reconstruct the past. I have ...

In a 2009 article in The Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus , I argued that one of the [many] problems facing the criteriological...

I just finished reading a classic piece of New Testament scholarship, Morna Hooker's essay, " On Using the Wrong Tool " ( Theo...

This will be much shorter than my previous post . In Constructing Jesus , Dale Allison defends what he calls "recurrent attestation,...

In his book, The Formation of the Gospel Tradition  (London: Macmillan and Co., 1933), Vincent Taylor has a remarkably perceptive comment ab...

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