I'm pleased to pass along the news that my article, "'Lord LORD: Jesus as YHWH in Matthew and Luke," has been accepted for publication in New Testament Studies. The article abstract is as follows: Despite numerous studies of the κύριος [Lord] title in the New Testament, the...
The latest edition of Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft has just been published, containing my latest article: "Altered Because of Transgressions? The 'Law of Deeds' in Gal 3,19a." The article examines the textual variants of Galatians 3:19a, particularly an intriguing example that may suggest the scribe of...
A couple weeks ago, Robert Myles responded to a few recent discussions about the next big thing in biblical studies with an Ngram looking at the relative popularity of recent scholars associated with Historical Jesus research: Check out this very insightful N-Gram on the relative popularity of...
I'm pleased to pass along the news that my article, "Altered Because of Transgressions? The 'Law of Deeds' in Gal 3:19a," has been accepted for publication in the first 2015 edition of Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft. Following is the article abstract: Although the textual variants of Gal...
As a teacher of religious studies, one thing that has stuck out to me during the recent Phil Robertson (the patriarch of the "Duck Dynasty" clan) controversy is the seeming ignorance regarding the source of several of the quotes attributed to Robertson. This article, for...
I recently (as in the spring of 2012; wow, this post has been in draft for awhile!) gave a guest lecture in Bart Ehrman's Introduction to New Testament and Early Christian Literature class. Bart periodically has his senior students give a lecture or two for experience...
Another terrific review of Aslan's best-seller, aided by the botched Fox News interview. A few snippets: Zealot’s claim is essentially a conspiracy theory: Jesus was really a proclaimer of violent revolution, but the gospels and Paul covered up the evidence. Aslan then has a typical conspiracy-theory...
Unfortunately, there isn’t much new here other than Aslan’s slick writing and cinematic sensibilities. In a now-notorious Fox News interview that propelled the book toward the top of the bestseller lists, Lauren Green questioned whether a Muslim should be writing about Christianity’s founder. But the real...
I've been steadily plugging away at the first portion of my dissertation (the one having to do with early Jewish understandings of Israel and Israelite restoration eschatology) this summer, and I've found it necessary to spend a good bit of time parsing the distinctions between...
Many scholars have responded to James Tabor's report (and new book) on the so-called "Patio Tomb" at Talpiot, which he and Simcha Jacobovici claim to be the grave of early (as in first-century) Christian disciples, complete with a "sign of Jonah" (which looks like a poorly-cut...