In yesterday's mail I received an examination copy of David A. deSilva's new book, The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude  ...

I'm reading Mark Goodacre's Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas 's Familiarity with the Synoptics  (Eerdmans, 2012). I...

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...

I know I'm supposed to be blogging about Jesus' wife. I'll try to get to that later today. But for now, can any of you access or...

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

I'm working through some thoughts on the identity of Paul's interlocutor in Romans (chapters 2–11, though my focus is on Romans 1–4)...

I'm currently reviewing Maurice Casey's book (perhaps even magnum opus ), Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Accoun...

Historiography  refers, among other things, to "the body of techniques, theories, and principles of historical research and presentatio...

I don't know how other scholars keep track of who has reviewed their works, in which journal, and what they've said. It seems to me ...

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 ...

I'm currently reading William Arnal's essay, "Major Episodes in the Biography of Jesus: An Assessment of the Historicity of the...

As I continue reading Kathy Ehrensperger and J. Brian Tucker's edited volume, Reading Paul in Context: Explorations in Identity Formatio...

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

I've started reading David C. Parker's short little book, The Living Text of the Gospels  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19...

I received an e-mail yesterday from T&T Clark that included a review of Structuring Early Christian Memory: Jesus in Tradition, Performa...

"[ K ] now thyself  must also mean know thy history . . . . [T]he kind of history which we are apt to understand best may be our own....

A common refrain among scholars and people who want to appear scholarly is, "Context is king" (or some something similar). So when...

I'm still reading The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres  (A. Weissenrieder and R....

I'm still reading The Interface of Orality and Writing: Speaking, Seeing, Writing in the Shaping of New Genres  (A. Weissenrieder and R....