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Friday, September 21, 2012

The Top Five Reasons I’m Bummed that Jesus Might not have been Married:

5) It's always fun to have an excuse to bring up Morton Smith's gay magician document. Boy, folks just don't forge and scandalize like they used to!

4) There was less of a chance that Mary nagged him about meeting a nice girl… encouraging him to show off at parties and whatnot.

3) I had planned to get at least 20 more minutes of lecture time out of this in my Portraits of Jesus class.

2) Because of the fragmentary nature of the papyrus, my I could look smart reading Coptic without having to remember any grammar.

…and the number one reason I’m bummed that Jesus might not have been married:

1) I was really getting tired of depictions of Jesus wearing a dress; I had quietly wished that this would help him into a handsome pair of trousers.

-anthony

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Jared CalawaySeptember 21, 2012 at 5:16 PM
You know, I was the Morton Smith Fellow at Columbia.
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Anthony Le DonneSeptember 21, 2012 at 6:16 PM
I did not know that! One day I hope to be the Jared Calaway Professor of Divinity at Illinois Wesleyan. Can you hook me up?
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Jared CalawaySeptember 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM
I don't know about that, but I remember when I was awarded the Fellowship, Alan Segal told me that meant I got to forge my own new Gospel. :)
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Chris KeithSeptember 22, 2012 at 2:07 AM
Jared, that story is hilarious. It's going to find its way into some of my lectures.
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James Crossley (PhD, Nottingham) is Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics at St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London. In addition to most things historical Jesus, his interests typically concern Jewish law and the Gospels, the social history of biblical scholarship, and the reception of the Bible in contemporary politics and culture. He is co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Christine Jacobi studied protestant theology and art history in Berlin and Heidelberg. She is research associate at the chair of exegesis and theology of the New Testament and apocryphal writings. She completed her dissertation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014. She is the author of Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien (BZNW 213), Berlin: de Gruyter 2015. Christine Jacobi is a member of the „August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum“ and the „Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften“.

Chris Keith (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

Anthony Le Donne (PhD, Durham) is Associate Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. He is the author/editor of seven books. He is the co-founder of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Consultation and the co-executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

Brant Pitre (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Among other works, he is the author of Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile (Mohr-Siebeck/Baker Academic, 2005), and Jesus and the Last Supper (Eerdmans, 2015). He is particularly interested in the relationship between Jesus, Second Temple Judaism, and Christian origins.

Rafael Rodríguez (PhD, Sheffield) is Professor of New Testament at Johnson University. He has published a number of books and essays on social memory theory, oral tradition, the Jesus tradition, and the historical Jesus, as well as on Paul and Pauline tradition. He also serves as co-chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

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Friday, September 21, 2012

The Top Five Reasons I’m Bummed that Jesus Might not have been Married:

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