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• Dietmar Neufeld (1949-2015)

  

  I was so sorry to hear of the death of Dietmar Neufeld on September 9. Dietmar Neufeld was professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern Religious... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The End of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Forgery Debate

  

  Guest post by Andrew Bernhard[PDF of this blog post available here]For nearly three years, there has been considerable controversy and confusion about whether... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Forger and the “Translator”

  

  Guest post by Andrew BernhardSince the recent release of the “translation” that the owner of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife gave Karen King and the revelation that i... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: “Patchwork Forgery” in Coptic . . . and English...

  Guest post by Andrew Bernhard[Unicode Coptic Font available here. If you are having trouble seeing the Coptic, there is also a PDF of this post available here. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: “Patchwork” Forgery in Coptic . . . and English

  

  Guest Post by Andrew Bernhard[Unicode Coptic Font available here. If you are having trouble seeing the Coptic, there is also a PDF of this post available here. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: A Call for Closure

  

  Guest post by Andrew BernhardWhodunnit? That’s the big question that remains unanswered about the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, and I must confess that I’m a bit... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Jesus' Wife Fake Latest

  In my previous post, Gospel of Jesus' Wife in New Testament Studies, I drew attention to the free-for-all access to the latest issue of New Testament Studies... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Gospel of Jesus' Wife in New Testament Studies

  

  In April 2014, Harvard Theological Review devoted an issue to the discussion of The Gospel of Jesus' Wife, a fragmentary text thought by many to be a forgery. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Tribute to J. Louis Martyn by Joel Marcus

  

  I am delighted to be able to share the following tribute to J. Louis Martyn by Prof. Joel Marcus, Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins in Duke... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Tributes to J. Louis Martyn (1925-2015)

  I was sorry to hear of the death of J. Louis Martyn last week. He is one of the greats of New Testament scholarship. Beverley Gaventa has a lovely tribute on th... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Montreat Conference Center Lecture Series

  

  You can join me and Prof. Ziony Zevit for a lecture series at Montreat Conference Center this May. Full details are available here:Montreat Conference... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Finding Jesus Episode 2 Tonight on CNN

  

  Episode 2 of the CNN Original Series, Finding Jesus, airs tonight at 9pm ET/PT. This episode focuses on John the Baptist and features contributions from me,... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The "Apocryphal Urge" in Finding Jesus: A Response to Tony Burke

  

  Over on Apocryphicity, Tony Burke has a characteristically lively discussion of the first episode of the CNN documentary Finding Jesus:Finding Jesus Episode 1:... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Finding Jesus Begins Tonight on CNN

  CNN begins its six part series, Finding Jesus, tonight at 9pm (ET/PT). Here's the series trailer: And here's a clip from tonight's episode in which Obery... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Killing Jesus -- First Look

  

  I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but there's another Jesus film on the way this spring -- Killing Jesus. It's adapted from Bill O’Reilly and... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Nativity (1978)

  

  While teaching Jesus in Film, I realize that there are still several Jesus films that I have not seen. One of these is a 1978 TV movie from the USA simply calle... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• 40 Years in Biblical Archaeology with Eric and Carol Meyers

  

  The latest Biblical Archaeology Review has a lengthy retrospective on the careers of my Duke colleagues Eric Meyers and Carol Meyers:Biblical Archaeology:... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Spelling Mistake in Last Temptation of Christ

  

  The Last Temptation of Christ begins with a quotation from Nikos Kazantzakis, but there is a spelling mistake -- it's the wrong "principle". Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Life of Brian's Parody of the Sermon on the Mount in Jesus Films

  

  The most iconic scene in Life of Brian is, of course, the opening post-credit scene in which Jesus is delivering the Sermon on the Mount to assembled thousands... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Life of Brian on Celluloid Jesus

  I've been gradually adding pages to my Celluloid Jesus web pages and the latest additions are Jesus of Nazareth (yesterday) and now also Life of... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY