The Jesus Blog is celebrating one million page views by hosting our largest book giveaway yet. Each of our six contributors is giving away one of their books supported by the generosity of de Gruyter, Baker Academic, Baylor University Press, Mohr Siebeck, Oxford University Press, and Bloomsbury.
You can enter in several ways: (1) share on any form of social media and comment below saying that you have; (2) visit the sponsors linked below and comment below saying that you have; (3) comment below with the title of a book in New Testament studies that impacted you in a meaningful way.
The winner will receive the following books:
Jesus Against the Scribal Elite
Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile:
Restoration Eschatology and the Origin of the Atonement
Oral Tradition and the New Testament: A Guide for the Perplexed
Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien
Jesus and the Chaos of History: Redirecting the Life of the Historical Jesus
The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David
We'd like to thank our readers for checking in with us regularly. You make this fun.
Good luck!
-anthony
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ReplyDeleteE.P. Sanders' Jesus and Judaism impacted me in a meaningful way.
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ReplyDeleteThe Presence of the Future, by George Eldon Ladd
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ReplyDeletePhilip Jenkins' Hidden Gospels convinced me that New Testament studies is both interesting and important, and I laughed out loud often while reading the book.
ReplyDeleteAlso, when my friends drink too much and proffer conspiracy theories about the Gospel of Thomas, I can set them straight in a fun and educational way.
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ReplyDeleteI have shared on social media! Hoping to win the mighty six!
ReplyDeleteI visited all the sponsor sites and shared on FB and Twitter. I am going to cheat and give two books on NT that impacted me. The first was NT Wright's "Jesus and the Victory of God." I was struggling not only with my faith but even my thinking on the significance of a historical Jesus. Wright was a buttress in both areas. The second was Herman Ridderbos' "Paul: an Outline of His Theology." This book was simply amazing and a great introduction to Paul's understanding and articulation of redemptive history.
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ReplyDeleteShared. Links visited. Right now Allison's Deconstructing Jesus has been very paradigm shifting.
ReplyDeleteEpp and Fee, Studies in Theory and Method of New Testament Textual Criticism.
ReplyDeleteShared! Oh, and Dale Martin's 'The Corinthian Body'.
ReplyDeleteI have shared on Facebook, Twitter, and gone to all the links.
ReplyDeleteThe work of James Crossley is what has kept me sane and engaged within the realm of studying the historical Jesus. However I would love the opportunity to engage with more of the work associated with the Jesus Blog.
Probably the biggest turning point in my own studies was engaging "Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity"
DeleteAn uber-giveaway! I visited the links. I'll add: I have recently appreciated anew Jervell's Luke and the people of God.
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ReplyDeleteI'd say Bauckham's "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses," despite how much I disagree with it now. It shaped my interest in the debate on testimony and the Gospels, particularly John's Gospel.
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ReplyDeleteFirst, I visited the links. Second, the most impactful book I've read in New Testament studies has been, oddly enough, the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (vol. 1 and 2), edited by Charlesworth. They were significant because, being primary sources, they really helped me to understand the literature and cognitive environment(s) leading up to the time of the historical Jesus. Third, I am about to post this on my facebook.
ReplyDeleteShared on Twitter and Goggle+ Thanks so much for this opportunity!
ReplyDeleteJohn McRay's Paul: His Life and Teaching was an informative read for me.
ReplyDeleteShared on Facebook and Twitter, and visited the sites. A major book in shaping my understanding of NT studies was Michael White's Scripting Jesus.
ReplyDeleteI shared on Facebook! Also, a book that impacted me in a meaningful way was Kenneth Bailey's Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels.
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ReplyDeleteThese six books will change my life. I have obeyed thine commands.
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ReplyDeleteBen Witherington III. The Paul Quest.
ReplyDeleteDale Allison's Jesus of Nazareth, Millennial Prophet was eye opening for me.
ReplyDeleteI have tweeted and visited the links. A lot of interesting things there!
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ReplyDeleteand recently read and delighted in Vol 1 of Wright's 'Paul and the Faithfulness of God'
Shared on FB. A book 8s Kline Snodgrass, Stories with Intent : A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables.
ReplyDeleteI shared on Facebook! Nathan Empsall in New Haven, CT
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ReplyDeleteNT Book that was greatly influential: Bart D Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (1993). Made me want to delve more into NT studies and Greek when I was mid-way through my undergrad in Maynooth.
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ReplyDeleteI am currently reading Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity. It's helping me to see how the traditional criteria of authenticity have been largely based on the faulty positivistic assumptions of form-criticism.
ReplyDeleteKyle here clearly has the best answer so far. :)
DeleteShared on The Facebook, visited the sponsors, and book of choice: Allison's "Constructing Jesus."
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ReplyDeleteBart D. Ehrman's ""How Jesus Became God" was a real "Wow!" book for me, and you can read my book review on his author's page at Amazon.com.
ReplyDeleteSix great books up for grabs . . . What a great giveaway! I'm thrilled to share this on my Facebook author's page today!
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ReplyDeleteRobert Guelich's commentary on the sermon on the mount was my first foray into serious scholarship and I couldn't get enough of his thought provoking commentary!
ReplyDeleteBen F. Meyer's 'The Aims of Jesus' had a major impact on the way that I think about Jesus, history, and the object of history.
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ReplyDeleteShared on FB, visited all of the sponsors, and Martin Hengel's "Crucifixtion", which was my first foray of any sort into HJ studies as a lowly undergraduate.
ReplyDeleteI mean, I want to win, of course, but I'm pretty sure at least three of the six are already on our bookshelf. :) Women in the World of the New Testament by Lynn Cohick.
ReplyDeleteSorry. Women in the World of the Earliest Christians by Lynn Cohick.
DeleteI shared in fb and Twitter, visited the sponsers link and Richard Hays Echoes of Scripture in Paul's letters helped shape the way I looked at Pauline hermeneutics.
ReplyDeleteI shared the link on Facebook. Thank you for the opportunity to get some great books!
ReplyDeleteN.T. Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God impacted me meaningfully. So did Robert Price's The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man.
ReplyDeleteN.T. Wright's Resurrection of the Son of God. Pretty much anything by Wright.
ReplyDeleteAll the links visited. My book choice is Dale Allison's «Constructing Jesus».
ReplyDeleteAnother book: K. Bailey's «Poet and Peasant». A book overlooked...
ReplyDeleteI recently read Saint John and the Synoptic Gospels by Percival Gardner-Smith, and wondered at length why a little naysaying book like this could have changed the majority view on the relationship between John and the Synoptics.
ReplyDeleteAnd still another book: Jens Schröter «Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament». Really brilliant!
ReplyDeleteMaurice Casey's Jesus of Nazareth was my first and so far best read of the historical Jesus.
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The Mystery of Acts by Richard Pervo
I have not done any of these things, and to spite you I bought the "Norman Geisler golden collection" of studies on Jesus.
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ReplyDeleteI have to say a big NT-studies book for me was Bultmann's "New Testament and Mythology," cliche as that might be to say.
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ReplyDeleteFrancis Watson's Gospel Writing for sheer breadth of treatment. Also Wright's New Testament and the People of God.
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ReplyDeleteChed Myers Binding the Strong Man
Tweeted: https://twitter.com/dyencich/status/657343742160994304
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ReplyDeleteLarry Hurtado's "Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity"
ReplyDeleteI loved Earle Ellis' Paul's Use of the Old Testament, taught me a great deal about how the subject.
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ReplyDeleteKeener's The Historical Jesus of the Gospels was the first book on the historical Jesus I read. It was/is a helpful introduction. Although I may need to re-read it in order to grasp all of those footnotes!
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ReplyDeleteReading Gordon Fee's Pauline Christology was impacting for me as it started me on a deeper study of the Bible
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ReplyDeleteSeyoon Kim's The Origin of Paul's Gospel.
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ReplyDeleteReading the Gospels Wisely by Jonathan Pennington
ReplyDeleteDC Parker's *The Living Text of the Gospels* was (and continues to be) a real catalyst for thought to me.
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ReplyDeleteIntro to the NT by Carson and Moo is great.
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DeleteKenneth Bailey "Poet and Peasant" and "Through Peasants Eyes". Solid gold, if rather dry.
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ReplyDeletethank you so much for everything that you have given me and if it´s your will and not too much to ask, I´d like to win the book by Christine Jacobi too,
Amen
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ReplyDeleteTweeted about the giveaway (https://twitter.com/woofboy/status/657861090055987200).
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ReplyDeleteMark as Story by Rhoads et al. Runner up: Echoes Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Hays.
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ReplyDelete"Unity and Diversity in the New Testament" by Jimmy Dunn was eye-opening for me.
ReplyDeleteRichard Hays' Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. Also should mention Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses.
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ReplyDeleteI visited all the sponsor links. One New Testament work that has meaningfully impacted me recently is Michael J. Gorman's Apostle of the Crucified Lord. A close runner-up is Peter Oakes's Philippians: From People to Letter.
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ReplyDeleteE. P. Sanders, *Paul and Palestinian Judaism*
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ReplyDeleteJames Dunn, 'Christology in the Making' for me.
ReplyDeleteJust saw in on the shelf and thought it needed a shout out, too: James G. Samra's Being Conformed to Christ on Community (LNTS 320).
ReplyDeleteDonald Juel - Messianic Exegesis
ReplyDeleteI read *What Saint Paul Really Said* by N.T. Wright when I was in high school, and it was the first exposure to a political reading of the early Christian proclamation.
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Jason Beduhn's The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon (2013) - shines the light of non-orthodox truth on early new testament development
ReplyDeleteMark Goodacre's Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas' Familiarity with the Gospels (2012) - a demonstration of why the null hypothesis is the foundation of all worthwhile research
Kris Komarnitsky's Doubting Jesus Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box - a challenging application of the social psychologist Leon Festinger's rational theory of cognitive dissonance to the resurrection traditions
Robert Funk and the Jesus Seminar's Five Gospels and Acts of Jesus (1993, 1998) - laid out a straight forward methodology for identifying probable history within a mythical narrative
Gene Stecher
Chambersburg, Pa.
Dale Allison's "Historical Christ and Theological Jesus" and "Resurrecting Jesus"
ReplyDeleteI just finished Daniel Boyarin's "The Jewish Gospels". Though I didn't find it satisfying, it helped me realize that Jewish and Christian theological development didn't happen in a vacuum. (I hope I win!)
ReplyDeleteI visited and browsed the 6 sponsors that are linked in the post.
ReplyDeleteMy first taste of critical study of the NT was Raymond Brown's John commentary (Anchor). I was in way over my head as a freshman but honestly don't know where I'd be now had I not picked it up.
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ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to this comp? Did anyone win? :)
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ReplyDeleteSanders' "Paul and Palestinian Judaism" is obviously a classic and has really helped me rethink the NT in light of 1st c. Judaism(s).
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ReplyDeleteThe most impactful New Testament studies book in my life was "Jesus And The Eyewitnesses" by Richard Baukham. It's greatest impact was that it gave me a greater appreciation for academic scholarship.
ReplyDeleteI visited the six sponsored sites, but I don't know how to read German. 😧
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ReplyDeleteBook that impacted me: Dale Allison's James commentary
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Books by my Yale professors:
A. Malherbe, Paul and the Popular Philosophers.
W. Meeks, The First Urban Christians.
R. Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul.
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