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Article Archives - Historical Jesus
- Myth Growth Rates and the Gospels: A Close Look at A.N. Sherwin-White’s Two-Generation Rule
By Kris Komarnitsky - The Jesus Discovery? A Sceptic’s Perspective
By Mark Goodacre - The Talpiyot (Jerusalem) Tombs: Some Sober Methodological Reflections on the Epigraphic Materials"
By Christopher A. Rollston - The Tombs at Talpiot: Overview of "The Jesus Discovery"
By James Tabor - Is Jesus' Nighttime Sanhedrin Trial an Aggrandizement of Friday Morning's "Consultation"?
By Michael J. Cook - Why is the Hypothesis that Jesus Was an Anti-Roman Rebel Alive and Well?
By Fernando Bermejo-Rubio - Spirit Possession, Exorcism and the Historical Jesus
By Amanda Witmer - Ten Things I Learnt about Jesus by Writing a Book about him
By Helen K Bond - A response to Joe Zias in The Bible and Interpretation
By Oded Golan - Competence and New Testament Scholarship
By Thomas L. Thompson - Facing the Jewish Jesus: A “Reed” in the Wilderness
By Ken Hanson - The Homecoming of the Other: Representations of Jesus in Twentieth Century Hebrew Literature
By Neta Stahl - Yoseh/Yosey – Heavyweight Names at Talpiot
By Eldad Keynan - Inventing Jesus’ Wife
By Francis Watson - “A Letter to Jesus: A Confession”
By Gerd Lüdemann - Dating Jesus’ Life: Past and Present Perspectives
By C. Philipp E. Nothaft - Is This Not the Carpenter’s Son?
By Thomas L. Thompson - What is the Message of “the Patio Tomb” in Talpiot, Jerusalem?
By James Hamilton Charlesworth - Did Jesus Exist? The Trouble with Certainty in Historical Jesus Scholarship
By Thomas S. Verenna - Implications of the “Forgery Trial” Verdict on the Authenticity of the James Ossuary
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al - On Yoseh, Yosi, Joseph, and Judas son of Jesus in Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott - A New Explanation of the Resurrection of Jesus: The Result of Mourning
By Gerd Lüdemann - The Ossuary of James the Brother of Jesus: From Trial to Truth?
By Paul V.M. Flesher - Regarding Magness and Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott - Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus
By Rivka Ulmer - The Evolution of the Easter Story
By Daniel A. Smith - Caiaphas’ Ossuary, Funerary Nails, and Mr. Zias
By Eldad Keynan - Nails in Jewish Tombs: Three Minutes with L.Y. Rahmani Discussing Simcha’s 3-Year Research
By Joe Zias - The Jewish Jesus
By Zev Garber - Matthew: the Heavenly Gospel
By Jay Williams - The James Ossuary in Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott - The Connection of the James Ossuary to the Talpiot (Jesus Family Tomb) Ossuaries
By A. Rosenfeld et al - A Critique of Simcha Jacobovici’s Secrets of Christianity: Nails of the Cross
By Robert R. Cargill - Jesus: The Lost 40 Days—The History Channel
By Joe E. Lunceford - The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus
By Colin J. Humphreys - The Burial of Jesus and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
By James F. McGrath - Is This Not the Carpenter: A Question of Historicity?
By Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna - Obscurities around the Tomb of the Holy Sepulcher
By Eldad Keynan - Death and Resurrection in the Book of Acts: A Foundational Motif for Discipleship
By Dennis J. Horton - How the Jesus Wars Tore the Christian World Apart
By Philip Jenkins - Will the Real Historical Jesus Please Stand Up? The Gospels as Sources for Historical Information about Jesus
By Craig Keener - The John, Jesus, and History Project? New Glimpses of Jesus and a Bi-Optic Hypothesis
By Paul N. Anderson - Visiting the Vatican
By Jacob Neusner - Jesus and Anacreon: The Gospels as Copy Exercises
By R. Joseph Hoffmann - Talpiot Dethroned
By Kevin Kilty with Mark Elliott - Love and Chairs: On Not Finding the Historical Jesus
By R. Joseph Hoffmann - A Diachronic Approach to Perception and Memory or Why a Synchronic Jesus should be a Topic of Historical Criticism
By Anthony Le Donne - The Messianic Jesus Makes a Comeback
By Michael F. Bird - The First One Hundred Years of Christianity in Jerusalem
By Elizabeth McNamer - The Final Days of Jesus: What Can Archaeology Tell Us?
By Shimon Gibson - A Discourse on Methods: The Jesus Project
By R. Joseph Hoffmann - Jesus Projects and a Different Kind of Minimalism (Perhaps)
By James Crossley - Rocks, Hard Places, and Jesus Fatigue: Jesus Seminar and Jesus Project
By R. Joseph Hoffman - Plus ça change… “The Jesus Seminar” and “The Jesus Project”
By Bruce Chilton - The Jesus Mysteries Was the ‘Original Jesus’ a Pagan God?
By Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy - What is Wrong with the Church?
By Jay Williams - The mamzer Jesus and His Birth
By Bruce Chilton - Joseph Caiaphas: In Search of a Shadow
By Helen Bond - Pilate, the Politics of Rome, and Evangelical Politics
By Bruce Chilton - Pontius Pilate: Roman Governor
By Warren Carter - Deconstructing Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”
By Jacques and Carol Kriel - Setting the Record Straight: A Short Response to BAR
By Eric M. Meyers - The Passion, Pornography and Polemic: In Defense of The Passion of the Christ
By Mark Goodacre - Inter-Jewish Conflict and the Passion of Jesus
By Anthony J. Tomasino - A Review of the Passion
By Jason Byassee - An Unacknowledged Passion
By Mark A. Chancey - A Judaic Reading of the Passion Narratives for Mel Gibson to Consider
By Jacob Neusner - Mel Gibson’s Passion Play
By Bruce Chilton - Mel’s Jesus: A “Real Man” or Just a Toon?
By Paul Flesher - Some Critical Comments on Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of Christ in the Light of Historical Criticism
By Gerd Ludemann - The Story Thus Far: A Review of The Brother Of Jesus
By Paul Flesher - More Evidence: Ossuary a Fraud?
By Eric Meyers - Remarks on the Aramaic of the James Ossuary
By Edward M.Cook - “Brother of Jesus” Inscription is a Forgery
By Jeffrey R.Chadwick - The Life of Jesus : A Brief Assessment
By Gerd Ludemann - Scholars And the James Ossuary: A Reply to Bruce Chilton
By Jim West - Thoughts on the James Ossuary
By Craig Evans - Scholars, Journalists and the Ossuary
By Bruce Chilton - The Jesus Seminar and the Public: Another Take
By Darrell L. Bock - The Jesus Seminar And The Public
By Robert J. Miller - The James Ossuary Yet Again
By Eric Meyers - Jesus according to Scripture: The Importance of the Gospel Portraits
By Darrell L. Bock - Concerning The So-Called Ossuary Of Jacob From A Tel Aviv Collection
By Zdzislaw J. Kapera - Shanks’ Assertions are Simply Incorrect and Misleading
By Yuval Goren - Updates on the Ossuary of Ya’acob bar Yosef and the Temple Tablet
By Rochelle Altman - The Missing Jesus
By Bruce Chilton - Another look at the James Ossuary
By Bruce Chilton - Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
By Larry Hurtado - The Experts and the Ossuary
By Paul Flesher - Observing the Ossuary
By Paul Flesher - Official report on the James Ossuary
By Rochelle Altman - The Ossuaries of Jesus and James
By Paul Flesher - Does the James’ Ossuary really refer to Jesus Christ?
By Paul Flesher - Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Methods and Sources
By Darrell L. Bock - From Jesus to Christ (New Introduction)
By Paula Fredriksen - James, Jesus’ Brother
By Bruce Chilton - Historical Jesus and the Question of Religious Authority
By Gregory W. Dawes - Issues in Jesus Research and Scholarship
By Mark Allan Powell - The Historical Jesus Quest Revisited
By Gregory W. Dawes - Bethsaida and the Ministry of Jesus around the Sea of Galilee
By Professor Rami Arav - Rabbi Jesus
By Bruce Chilton
