Steve Caruso offers an audio reconstruction of Jesus' Aramaic quotation of Psalm 22. http://aramaicnt.org/2015/03/31/my-god-my-god-why-h...

Daniel Gullotta! This winner was chosen by an independent expert in witticisms. This is not to say we endorse or don't endorse the win...

Today many Christians celebrated "Palm Sunday." It is the day we commemorate Jesus entry into Jerusalem. It is sometimes called Je...

Annette Merz offers a short assessment of Jesus' marital status. She kindly cites my book alongside a few others. New to me is the sugg...

I'm attempting to compile a list of themes/topics that have received attention in Jesus research over the last thirty years. What am I m...

I know that most people don't find things related to literacy in the ancient world as interesting as I do.  But, for those few who might...

The Jesus Blog word for the day is perspicuous . Used in a sentence: Chris Keith's Jesus against the Scribal Elite is perspicuous. ...

Dayton folks, I will be preaching at tomorrow's chapel at United Theological Seminary (3/18/2015). 12:30ish I'm told. I won't re...

"The future for unscholarly, frankly loony books about Jesus ought to be even brighter in the postmodern era."                 ...

In a recent conversation with two senior colleagues, I asked, "Who is the first female voice to be heard in the field of historical J...

My friends, if you haven't read Anthony Le Donne's review of Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson's The Lost Gospel in the Los An...

The Lexham Bible Dictionary (via Logos) asked me to write a survey of "Quests" for the historical Jesus. Instead of writing the s...

Today my review of The Lost Gospel by Jacobovici and Wilson was posted at the Los Angeles Review of Books webpage. http://lareviewofbooks...