“In both his teaching and his very presence, Jesus of Nazareth presented the ultimate criticism of the royal consciousness. He has, in fac...

The following is an excerpt from my recently published, Near Christianity: How Journeys along Christian Borders Saved My Faith in God.  I ...

To all of our readers celebrating Rosh Hashanah, have a good and sweet new year! From all of us at the Jesus Blog.

Today I got my hardcopy of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus . I have a vested interest, but I always like publications wi...

It is well known among those who know well that the so-called apocryphal gospels tend to polarize. Within a classification system...

Photo Atlanta Black Star "People who have never been lynched by another group usually find it difficult to understand why blacks wa...

The True Random Number Generator has spoken and the winner of Salvation by Allegiance Alone by Matthew Bates is the owner of comment 28:  ...

The late, great Frederick Douglass (more great than late according some) was repulsed by the aggrandizement of Robert E. Lee. After the Civi...

I'm happy to announce that the next publication from the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St Mary's Universit...

Just two days ago, I mentioned that the forthcoming issue of Journal for the Study of the New Testament  would feature a back-and-forth bet...

The forthcoming issue of Journal for the Study of the New Testament will feature a critical response to my "The Narratives of the Gosp...

Friend of the blog Baker Academic Press is sponsoring a giveaway of Matthew Bates's Salvation by Allegiance Alone .  We know, we know . ...

Readers of the Jesus Blog may be interested in this new book in the Library of New Testament Studies.  Hilde Brekke Moller has written the f...