Category Archives: Christian Origins

  1. Call for Papers: EABS Historical Jesus

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    January 21, 2015 by Harnessing Chaos

    From the forthcoming European Association of Biblical Studies conference in Cordoba (July 12-15th, 2015): ‘Revolution, Peace and Violence: Rethinking Jesus …
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    Category: Christian Origins, European Association of Biblical Studies, Gospels, Historical Criticism, Historical Jesus, Religion and Politics | Tags: , , , , , ,

  2. How ‘Jewish’ is the Christmas story? ‘Fiercely Jewish’!

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    December 23, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    On ABC Religion and Ethics, N.T. Wright has given his annual Christmas address: ‘The Virgin Birth and the Constraints of …
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    Category: Christian Origins, Gospels, Historical Criticism, Historical Jesus, Synoptic Gospels | Tags: , , , , , ,

  3. Book cover notice: Jesus and the Chaos of History

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    November 13, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    Here is the cover for Jesus and the Chaos of History: Redirecting the Life of the Historical Jesus (OUP, February 2015):   …
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  4. Rudolf Rocker on Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the Aryan Jesus, and Racial Scholarship

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    October 11, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    From 1977 onward and the work of E.P. Sanders (though not without precedent–see e.g. George Foot Moore), New Testament scholarship …
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  5. BNTC 2014 Manchester

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    September 2, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    This year’s British New Testament Conference is in Manchester. Highlights from the Seminar Groups include: Jesus Jens Schröter Helen K. Bond …
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    Category: Bible and English Politics, British New Testament Conference, Christian Origins, Historical Criticism, Historical Jesus, Reception History | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

  6. Rudolf Bultmann, E.P. Sanders, and Curious Legacies

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    August 28, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    Picking up on the evaluation of Bultmann’s legacy on the Jesus Blog and publishing some fragments I could not be …
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    Category: Christian Origins, Gospels, Historical Criticism, Historical Jesus, Synoptic Gospels | Tags: , , , , ,

  7. Goosing Anthony Le Donne

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    August 22, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    Anthony Le Donne, one of the most important advocates of social memory studies in historical Jesus and New Testament studies, …
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    Category: Christian Origins, Gospels, Historical Criticism, Historical Jesus, John the Baptist, Synoptic Gospels | Tags: , , ,

  8. Inauthenticity: The Case of John’s Gospel

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    August 21, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    Following on from the ‘criteria of authenticity’ post and writing about the historical Jesus… In recent years the use of …
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    Category: Christian Origins, Gospels, Historical Criticism, Historical Jesus, John's Gospel, Synoptic Gospels | Tags: , , , , ,

  9. The Dictatorship of God? Or, Jesus Plus Paul Equals Marx Plus Lenin

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    August 12, 2014 by Harnessing Chaos

    Here are two relatively unconventional takes on Jesus and Paul: I am not the first to risk the comparison that …
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