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RBB12: Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries 30 Nov 2012 | 09:45 pm
Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries(Eerdmans, 2009) is a monumental monograph by Everett Ferguson, one in which the author has “attempted to be as c...
RBB12: Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice 16 Nov 2012 | 04:00 pm
Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice (Princeton University Press, 2000), edited by Richard Valantasis, is a completely different work than what I originally envisaged. Frankly, when I picked this b...
RBB12: Heikki Räisänen's The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians 2 Nov 2012 | 07:35 pm
In my previous discussion of Helmet Koester I yearned for a new language that would break free of the old canon-centered paradigm for good. Heikki Räisänen's The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought...
From Stalemate to Deadlock: Clement’s Letter to Theodore in Recent Scholarship (CBR 11: 87-125) 30 Oct 2012 | 01:43 pm
Some days ago Currents in Biblical Research published my article "From Stalemate to Deadlock: Clement’s Letter to Theodore in Recent Scholarship", a literature review and a-discourse-analysis-by-any-o...
RBB12: Hans-Josef Klauck's Apocryphal Gospels: An Introduction 18 Oct 2012 | 02:05 pm
The introduction of Klauck's Apocryphal Gospels (T&T Clark, 2003) drops the gauntlets right at the beginning: there is "a newer ideology" (2)—one exemplified by Helmut Koester and North American schol...
Another "Fake" Or Just a Problem of Method: What Francis Watson's Analysis Does to Papyrus Köln 255? 28 Sep 2012 | 12:41 am
James F. McGrath has kindly offered to host a small contribution of mine to the current debate on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife on his blog Exploring the Matrix. Another "Fake" Or Just a Problem of Metho...
Forging the Gospel of Jesus' Wife 21 Sep 2012 | 08:10 pm
The internet has been buzzing over the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. For collections of links on the topic, consult James F. McGrath's three posts on the subject for more opinions than you can read in an hou...
RBB12: Helmut Koester's Introduction to the New Testament, Volume Two: History and Literature of Early Christianity 11 Sep 2012 | 03:51 pm
It is interesting to note that the second volume of Helmut Koester's Introduction to the New Testament is neither an "introduction" nor "history and literature of early Christianity" (despite the subt...
RBB12: Helmut Koester's Introduction to the New Testament, Volume One: History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age 20 Aug 2012 | 07:26 pm
I have stalled for writing this first instance out of seven planned for the usual reason: having read the first volume of Helmut Koester's Introduction to the New Testament (1982) I found myself quite...
RBB12: Reading a Bunch of Books for the Summer of 2012 14 Jun 2012 | 10:47 pm
For the summer of 2012, I intend to read a bunch of books (RBB12 for short). The books for this endeavor are the following: Helmut Koester: Introduction to the New Testament, Volume One: History, Cul...
