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Adams, Doug

  • Wine and Humor at Cana 5-6

Adkinson, Austin

  • Lacunae 31-4

Arav, Rami and John J. Rousseau

  • Elusive Bethsaida Recovered 4-1

Arnal, William E.

  • Just how radical were the first followers of Jesus? Q and the Use of Jesus’ Sayings 23-3
  • Review of Paula Fredriksen, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews 14-2

Aufdencamp, Fred

  • The Doping of Jesus 30-3

Bangert, Byron

  • A Case for Theological Realism 31-1
  • No Need to Abandon a Realist, Theistic Conception of God 29-2

Barr, David L.

  • Tales of the End 11-1

Bater, Robert B.

  • Odyssey: Being There 9-3–4

Batson, David

  • Communal Care and the Growth of Early Christianity 18-4

BeDuhn, Jason David

  • Marcion, Forgotten Church Father and Inventor of the New Testament     27-5

Bessler, Joseph A.

  • Reading Lloyd Geering: Fifty Years after the Heresy Trial   28-5
  • Religion: Mend It, Don't End It — A Review of Sam Harris, The End of Faith 18-6
  • Reflection on Borg's The God We Never Knew    29-1
  • The Seminar on God and the Human Future: A Report on the 2016 Spring Meeting 29-3
  • Why the First Quest for the Historical Jesus?   26-3
  • Why I Wrote A Scandalous Jesus    26-5

Beutner, Edward F.

  • The Art of Translation: Traduttore Traditore, Translators and Traitors 3-1
  • The Burglar Who Makes Appointments 17-6
  • Comedy with a Tragic Turn: The Dishonest Manager 16-2
  • How Jesus Took the gist from Liturgist 12-3
  • Jesus after Hamlet 16-1
  • JFK: A Moving Picture 5-1
  • The 'Lust' Temptation of Christ 2-2

Borg, Marcus J.

  • Christ the Man Update: The Toronto Report 3-1
  • Jesus and the Buddha 10-6
  • Jesus Seminar at Work: Making the Bible an Open Book 7-6
  • Jesus Seminar at Work: The Making of The Five Gospels 7-5
  • Jesus: A Sketch 7-3
  • Odyssey: Me and Jesus—The Journey Home 6-4
  • Portraits of Jesus: Albert Schweitzer's View on Jesus and the End of the World 3-3
  • Portraits of Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss: Miracle and Myth 4-3
  • Portraits of Jesus: Reimarus and the Beginning of the Quest 4-6
  • The Treasure in Earthen Vessels 3-4
  • What Defiles Us?   29-1

Braxton, Don

  • Evolution, Monotheism, and Violence 17-6
  • Review of John J. Collins, Does the Bible Justify Violence? 18-2

Brown, Scott

  • The Mystical Gospel of Mark: Part One 25-6
  • The Mystical Gospel of Mark: Part Two 26-1

Butcher, John Beverly

  • Letter to the Editor: The Church of the Open Canon Exists 5-6
  • Seeking the Wisdom of Jesus 16-4

Butts, James R.

  • Scholars Version: A New Translation 2-2

Cadwallader, Alan H.

  • When “Word” is not enough: The Syrophoenician encounter with Jesus (Mark 7:24–30) 25-5

Caputo, John D.

Carter, David F.

  • The Passing Scene: National Bible Week 2-6
  • Three Seminars with a Common Goal 3-4

Carter, Richard J.

  • Marcus Borg: A Layperson's View of His Life & Work   29-1

Cassuto, Leonard

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Meets John Calvin 5-2

Chancey, Mark A.

  • Bible Courses, Public Education, and the Law 23-4

Chilton, Bruce

  • Odyssey: Finding a Way 7-5
  • Response to Verhoeven: Escaping the Sterile 4-1

Cook, Harry T.

  • Heresy—Or Not 29-3
  • The Humanist’s Goal Is Becoming Human    27-6

Cook, Michael J.

  • Jews and “Gospel Dynamics”: Why advice by ancient sages is no longer sage advice 22-2

Corley, Kathleen E.

  • Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Salome 7-5
  • Bad History and Bad Theology — A Review of Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ 17-1

Cotes, Alison

  • The Not-So-Great Debate 12-1

Craffert, Pieter

  • Jesus' Resurrection as a Cultural Reality  26-2
  • An Appreciative, though Critical, Response  26-2

Crockett, Clayton

  • Why the Jesus Seminar Needs the God Seminar  31-2

Crosby, Donald A.

Crossan, John Dominic

  • Early Christian Feminism: The Untold Story 3-3
  • From Abba-Cry to Father-Prayer    28-2
  • It's the Theology: In Memory of Marcus J. Borg (1942–2015)    29-1
  • Odyssey: Almost the Whole Truth 6-5
  • The Passion Narrative 9-5–6
  • Portraits of Jesus: Jesus as a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant 4-2

Cupitt, Don

  • Christianity after the Church 13-6
  • Eschatology, Globalized and Personalized 29-5
  • Statement in anticipation of Spring 2004 meeting 16-1
  • The Wandering Philosopher 14-1

Daniel-Hughes, Carly

  • Christianity Seminar: A Report on the 2016 Spring Meeting 29-3

Daniels, Jon B.

  • The Egerton Gospel 4-5

Dart, John

  • Why the Secret Gospel of Mark is Not a Fraud 21-6

Davies, Stevan L.

  • Whom Jesus Healed and How 6-2

Dewey, Arthur J.

Dewey, Arthur J. and Robert W. Funk

  • Mark and Street Lingo 3-5

Dewey, Joanna

  • Marcus J. Borg: Jesus    29-1

Duling, Dennis C.

  • Mark Who? 3-5

Dunderberg, Ismo

  • Valentinus and His School: What Might Have Been 22-6

Dupertuis, Rubén

  • Review of Adele Reinhartz, Jesus of Hollywood 21-6
  • Review of Jonathan L. Reed, The HarperCollins Visual Guide to the New Testament 21-4
  • Socratizing Paul: The Portrait of Paul in Acts 22-6

Eddy, Dick

  • The Jesus Seminar: Work in Progress 5-6

Elliott, John H.

  • The Social Facets Toronto Agenda 2-4

Elliott, Susan (Elli)

  • Born How? A Sermon on John 3:1–21 23-6
  • Gladiators and Martyrs 29-5
  • Pseudo-Scholarship Illustrated: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God? 24-3
  • Which Came First, the Rhetoric or the Message?: A Response to Nina E. Livesey 31-2
  • Wrestling with the Cross: A Sermon 17-4

Endres, John C., S. J., et al.

  • Duplicate Histories: A New Study Instrument for the Hebrew Bible 3-3

Farrin, Cassandra

  • Review of Dennis R. MacDonald, Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero 29-2

Feist, James

  • Is God Real?: A Linguistic View 30-3

Ford, Richard Q.

  • Economic Warfare and Ethnic Intolerance: Two Parables of Jesus 30-5
  • Jesus’ Parable of the Dishonest Steward and America’s War in Afghanistan 25-3
  • Jesus’ Parable of the Unforgiving Slave and the Wall Street Crisis of 2008 24-3
  • Jesus’ Parable of the Vineyard Workers and U.S. Policy on Iraqi Oil 22-4
  • A Response to Robert Miller’s Analysis of the Parable "The Pharisee and the Toll Collector" 30-1

Fortna, Robert T.

  • The Gospel of John and the Historical Jesus 8:5-6

Frayer-Griggs, Daniel

Frey, Janice

  • The Codex of the Gospel of Jesus 14-2

Funk, Robert W.

  • Obituary 18-5
  • Testimonials 18-6
  • Life & Legacy 19-2
  • A Few Good People     15-3
  • An Advocate for Religious Literacy 2-5
  • Bookshelf: The Resurrection of Jesus 8-1
  • Call for a Canon Council 6-3
  • The Coming Radical Reformation 11-4
  • Criteria for Determining the Authentic Sayings of Jesus 3-6
  • Demons: Identity and Worldview 5-3
  • Don't Look for Jesus on Clouds of Glory 2-3
  • Do the Gospels Contain Eyewitness Reports? 17-2
  • The Emerging Jesus 2-6
  • The Four-Year Political Circus: Can You Fool All the People All the Time? 5-4
  • From the Publisher: Tongues of the Wise 6-6
  • God and the Emperor in Waco 6-3
  • The Gospel of Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels 6-6
  • Hansel and Gretel, The Lone Ranger, and The Lord of the Rings 5-5
  • How Jesus Became God 4-6
  • The Jesus Seminar on the Road in New Zealand 11-5
  • In the Heart of America: Redeemer Figures and Mythic Spaces 3-4
  • The Incredible Creed 10-3–4
  • Jesus and the Apocalypse 5-2
  • Jesus as Itinerant Sage: True or False 14-2
  • The Jesus That Was 5-6
  • The Lord's Prayer: Does It Go Back to Jesus? 2-1
  • Milestones in the Quest for the Historical Jesus 14-4 (reprinted in part in 26-6)
  • A New Blass-Debrunner-Funk 2-5
  • Profiles of Jesus: A Protocol 8-5–6
  • Profiles of Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth—A Glimpse 9-1–2
  • Report: Jesus Seminar—Healings Spring 1993 voting results 6-2
  • Review of Richard Holloway, Godless Morality 15-4
  • The Resurrection of Jesus: Reports and Stories 7-4
  • Rewards are Intrinsic 15-2
  • Rules of Oral Evidence: Determining the Authentic Sayings of Jesus 4-2
  • Scholars Version: Calling a Spade a Spade 3-5
  • Scholars Version: Translator's Guidelines 2-5
  • The Sunday Morning Experience: A Codicil to Robert Price 16-6
  • Time Marches On, Part 1 2-2
  • Time Marches On, Part 2 2-3
  • Translation Notes 4-3
  • Twenty-one Theses and Notes 11-4
  • A War of Worlds 14-5
  • What Books Belong to the Bible? 2-5
  • What Jesus Is Emerging? 2-4
  • Where Have All the Students Gone? 3-2

Funk, Robert W. and Dewey, Arthur J.

  • Mark and Street Lingo 3-5

Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar

  • The First Storytellers 11-2

Galston, David

  • Demoting Jesus: On Returning his Humanity 25-5
  • Historical Jesus and the New Nicaea 15-3
  • An Interview with Raheel Raza     27-5
  • Postmodernism, the Historical Jesus, and the Church 18-5
  • A Reply to Robert M. Price, "Lamps unto Yourselves"    27-2
  • The Seminar on God and the Human Future: A Report on the Fall 2014 Meeting   28-3
  • Tillich and God in Atlanta: A Report on the 2015 Fall Meeting 29-2
  • Troubling Times for God: Nominalist Challenges for a Seminar and a Culture   28-6
  • Westar in New Zealand and Australia    28-6
  • Where is Fundamentalism Leading Us? 16-3
  • Who Cares Who Said?: The Question of Myth and Religion    27-2
  • Why I Wrote Embracing the Human Jesus 25-6

Geering, Lloyd

Glancy, Jennifer

  • Jesus and Slavery 22-1

Gray, Charles

  • The Twin Engines of Social Change: New Knowledge and Technology 25-4

Griffin, Douglas L.

  • The Discipline of Doubt as Gateway to Faith 31-3

Gunney, Lynn Tuttle

Hagenston, Richard

  • Justice versus Mercy in the Hebrew Bible 31-2

Hakkinen, Sakari

  • The Ebionites 18-5

Hall, Tom

  • “He Made It Up” 24-2
  • Reply to Sea Raven 24-6
  • Review of Lloyd Geering, Reimagining God: The Faith Journey of a Modern Heretic   28-5
  • Yes We Can 25-1

Harris, Stephen

  • Jesus and Family Values 6-1

Hearon, Holly E.

  • Searching for Mary Magdalene 22-2

Hedrick, Charles W.

  • The Basic Problem of Historical Jesus Studies: Criticism is to make judgments in light of evidence 28-1
  • Bird Droppings and Religious Faith 22-4
  • Blind Alleys and Turning Corners: A Response to Robert Miller’s“The Pharisee and the Toll Collector” 30-1
  • The Church’s Gospel and the Idiom of Jesus 30-4
  • The Decline of Public Miracles 23-5
  • Does Prayer Work—Like Magic? 23-6
  • Four Shibboleths of Southern Baptist Orthodoxy 4-3
  • Gnosticism: The Religion of the Alien God 3-6
  • Halloween: Do the Dead Walk? 25-1
  • How relevant is the Christian worldview today?   28-3
  • Is belief in the divinity of Jesus essential to being Christian? 24-5
  • Is the Bible the Word of God? 29-3   29-4   29-5
  • Making Oxen Out of Unicorns 18-4
  • (Mis)Using the Bible in Arguments against Abortion 22-3
  • The Problem with Symbols is . . . 21-6
  • Putting Paul in His Place 31-1
  • Reading Scripture out of Context and God's "Plan of Salvation"  26-2
  • The Recovery of a New Ancient Gospel 12-2
  • Satyrs or Wild Goats? The Politics of Translating the Bible 25-6
  • Secret Mark: New Photographs, New Witnesses 13-5
  • Visions, Apparitions, and Other Divine Visitations 22-6
  • Where Does Evil Come From?  26-4
  • Yahweh—the God who changed his ways    27-3

Hill, Jack

  • Fear, Civic Life, and the Divine Domain: Addressing the Shadow Sides of Contemporary Culture 23-3
  • Was Jesus Green 15-5

Hills, Julian V.

  • The Creed: A Pledge of Allegiance 4-2

Hogue, Michael

  • Religion without God: The Way of Religious Naturalism    27-3

Holloway, Richard

  • Charge to the Edinburgh Synod 13-6

Hoover, Roy W.

  • Answering the Critics 8-5–6
  • The Clash of Civilizations 14-5
  • Folio Bible: Centurions in the Lukan Writings 3-1
  • Folio Bible: Introduction to Sample Pages 3-1
  • A Gift of Christmas Clarity 10-6
  • How the Canon Was Formed 5-1
  • Identifying Interpolations in Paul’s Letters 24-5
  • Profiles of Jesus: The Jesus of History—A Profile in Courage 9-3–4
  • Review of John Shelby Spong, Jesus for the Non-Religious: Recovering the Divine at the Heart of the Human 23-3
  • Response to Verhoeven: Jesus, A Wily Political Operative? 4-1
  • The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus 7-1
  • Tradition and Faith in a New Era 17-1
  • Translating Paul's Jargon 18-1
  • The Work of the Jesus Seminar 9-5–6
  • Was Jesus’ Resurrection an Historical Event? A Debate Statement with Commentary 23-5

Hoover, Roy W. et al.

  • Folio Bible: The Centurion at Capernaum- Luke 7-1

Jackson, Glenna

  • Another Look at the Canaanite Woman 25-5
  • Choosing Hymns 17-1
  • Review of Thomas E. Boomershine, The Messiah of Peace: A Performance-Criticism Commentary on Mark’s Passion-Resurrection Narrative 29-3
  • Review of April D. DeConick, Holy Misogyny: Why the Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter    27-6
  • Review of Bart Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus 19-5
  • Review of Brian Griffith, Correcting Jesus: 2000 Years of Changing the Story    27-1
  • Review of Sheila E. McGinn, The Jesus Movement and the World of the Early Church 30-2
  • Review of Elaine Pagels, Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation 26-1
  • Review of Jane S. Webster and Glenn S. Holland, editors, Teaching the Bible in the Liberal Arts Classroom 31-2

Jacobson, Arland

  • Which Was the First Gospel? 6-1
  • Why I Belong to the Jesus Seminar 2-4

Jech, Carl L.

  • Evidence and Life after Death 29-2
  • Jesus Christ: Person and Symbol: Faith of or in Christ? 30-5

Jefford, Clayton N.

  • Second-Century Theologians: Ignatius of Antioch 23-1

Jenks, Gregory

  • What Did Paul Know About Jesus 12-1

Jesus Seminar

  • Report from the Jesus Seminar—Synoptics, Thomas, Southern Baptists 3-6
  • Fall 1990: Synoptics, Thomas, Southern Baptists 3-6
  • Fall 1991: Jesus and John the Baptist 4-6
  • Fall 1993: Boundaries of the Bible, Jesus' Healings & Exorcisms 7-1
  • Fall 1994: Birth and Family of Jesus 7-6
  • Fall 1995: The Death of Jesus 8-3–4
  • Once & Future Faith Voting Results 14-3
  • Spring 1991: John 3-16–21, Lord's Prayer, Parables 4-2
  • Spring 1992: John the Baptist, the Apocalypse 5-2
  • Spring 1993: Healings 6-2
  • Spring 1994: Jesus at Table 7-2
  • Spring 1995: The Resurrection 8-2

Johnson, Jeanette

  • Biblical Illiteracy and Faith 4-6

Johnson-DeBaufre, Melanie

  • Did Jesus Act Alone? A Response to Paul Verhoeven 25-4
  • “That One” Takes a Village: The Uniqueness of Jesus and the Beelzebul Controversy (Q 11:14–26) 22-5

Jones, Paul H.

  • Fact-Checking Faith: From Category Confusion to "Higher" Truth    27-3
  • A Progressive’s Prologue to Peace: The Theological Tenets of Tolerance    29-4
  • Reading the Bible Critically, Not Literally: A Primer 25-6
  • Silencing Jesus with Politics: From a Subversive to a Submissive Jesus 31-1
  • Why I Wrote The Church’s Seven Deadly Secrets: An Interview with Paul Jones 26-1

Jones, Robert

  • Let’s Interpret It All: Reflections on Gerd Lüdemann’s What Jesus Didn’t Say 24-6
  • Review of Mark Adamo, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene    26-6
  • A Philosopher for Pulpiteers: Paul Ricoeur and the Language of Faith Proclamation 24-2

Josephus, Flavius

  • Eleazar the Exorcist 5-2

Kasper, James

  • The Stole of the Jesus Seminar Order of Merit 16-5

Kea, Perry V.

  • Bookshelf: The Unknown Gospels 3-6
  • Finding a Voice for the Black Sayings 8-5–6
  • Saving Jesus from the Church: An Interview with Robin Meyers    27-3
  • Listening for Luke's Voice 10-5
  • New Testament Literary Genres 6-4
  • Review of Jeffrey C. Pugh, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times   29-6
  • Review of Jennifer Wright Knust, Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire    27-5
  • Review of John Kaltner, Islam: What Non-Muslims Should Know    30-4
  • Review of Mark Achtemeier, The Bible's Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical's Change of Heart    28-2
  • Review of Michael Coogan, The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text   31-3
  • Review of Nicola Denzey Lewis, Introduction to “Gnosticism”: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds   30-5
  • Review of Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth    26-6
  • Review of Richard A. Horsley and Neil Asher Silberman, The Message and the Kingdom 18-3
  • Review of Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty 25-5
  • The Road to the Jesus Seminar 18-1
  • Silencing Jesus with Theology: From Parable to Allegory 31-1
  • The Story of Thecla: An Early Christian Heroine  26-4

Kelly, John C.

  • Don Cupitt’s Above Us Only Sky 23-4
  • A Fine Mess: The Realist/Anti-Realist Dispute 22-1
  • The New Atheism and the Enlightenment: Part One  26-3
  • The New Atheism and the Enlightenment: Part Two  26-4

Kenney, Garrett

  • What’s Going on Here? Spirit or spirit? 24-4

King, Karen L.

  • A Gnostic Story: The Triple Descent of the Savior 3-6
  • Mary Magdala 16-5
  • Mary of Magdala 10-3–4
  • What Is Gnosticism? 4-3
  • Who Are the Gnostics? 4-4

Kirkham, Dominic.

  • The Phoenix of Passchendaele 30-6

Kloppenborg, John S.

  • Beyond Story in Search of History 14-1
  • Mark and the Synoptic Sayings Gospel 3-5
  • Koester, Helmut and Stephen J. Patterson
  • Secret Mark 4-3

Komarnitsky, Kris

  • Cognitive Dissonance and the Resurrection of Jesus     27-5

Kotrosits, Maia

  • Christianity Seminar: A Report on the 2015 Fall Meeting 29-2
  • Rethinking the Beginnings of Christianity: New History, New Meanings 28-4
  • The Thunder: Perfect Mind and Early Christian Conflicts about Gender 24-1

Large, Ron

  • American Apocalyptic 4-5
  • Making Enemies 3-2

Laughlin, Paul Alan

  • An Aunt Jemima father, a handyman son, and a tinkerbell holy spirit — A theological Review of William Paul Young’s semi-radical yet best-selling Christian novel, The Shack 22-2
  • Buddhism for Kids: An Experiment in Comparative Religious Literacy 24-2
  • The Once and Future Christ of Faith 18-2
  • Pray Without Seeking: Part One: Toward a Truly Mystical Lord’s Prayer 22-5
  • Pray Without Seeking: Part Two: Toward a Truly Mystical Lord’s Prayer 22-6
  • Putting the Historical Jesus in His Place, Part 1 19-1
  • Putting the Historical Jesus in His Place, Part 2 19-3

Leaves, Nigel

  • The God Problem 18-3
  • Why I Wrote Religion Under Attack 25-1

Lehto, Bill

  • Don Cupitt: An Appreciation 23-2
  • Review of Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values 24-2

Linden, William M.

  • The Pearl, the Treasure the Fool, and the Cross: A Response 19-3

Livesey, Nina E.

  • Christianity Seminar: A Report on the 2017 Spring Meeting 30-4
  • Review of Brigitte Kahl, Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished 23-4
  • Second-Century Theologians: Justin: Refining the Meaning of Christ and Christian 23-2
  • Which Came First, the Rhetoric or the Message?: A Response to Nina E. Livesey 31-2
  • The Whys and Wherefores of the New Christianity Seminar 26-1

Loehr, Davidson

  • Straight Talk about God-Talk 23-2

Lowe, Sanford

Lüdemann, Gerd

  • The Answer Is “Truth” 25-1
  • A Letter to Jesus: A Confession   28-1
  • The Life of Jesus: A Brief Assessment 16-5
  • Paul - An Obituary
  • Peter's Mourning and His Easter Vision  27-1
  • A Tale with a Spin: A Tailspin for Truth 22-2
  • What Jesus Didn’t Say: An interview with author Gerd Lüdemann 25-2

Mack-Fisher, Loren R.

  • The Art of Translation: Dust or Mud? 3-1
  • The Art of Translation: The Man with No Name 3-2
  • Introduction to Genesis Parallels: Sample Pages 2-6
  • A Response to Time 2-1

McClure, Walter

  • The New Physics 15-3

McDonald, Lee

  • Is the Bible the Word of God? 29-3 29-4 29-5

McCreery, David

  • The Search for Historical Israel 15-6

McGaughy, Lane C.

  • Infancy Narratives in the Ancient World 5-5
  • Jesus' Parables and the Fiction of the Kingdom 3-4
  • On Translating Paul’s Letters–for the First Time 24-5
  • Paul, Luther, and Protestant Doctrine: A Response to William Walker 29-6
  • Report from the Spring Meeting 2012: Back to the Future 25-3
  • The Search for the Historical Jesus: Why Start with the Sayings? 9-5–6
  • Space or Place? Desert or Pasture? 3-5
  • YEAR 3 after Bob: A Message to the Members and Friends of Westar Institute 21-6

MacKenzie, Rod

  • What Makes a Jesus Seminar Study Group Successful? 25-3

McMillan, James W.

  • Medical Illiteracy and Scholarly Integrity 2-2

Meyers, Robin

  • Bless You, Marcus Borg   29-1
  • Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance    28-6

Milavec, Aaron

  • The Didache 18-3

Miller, Robert J.

  • Adam and Edom: The Costs and Benefits of Monotheism    20-3
  • Back to Basics: A Primer on Historical Method 11-6
  • Born Again? Think Again.   28-1
  • The Complete Gospels: An Introduction 4-6
  • Did Jesus Fulfill Prophecy? Probing Matthew's Gospel 16-2
  • Did Matthew Believe in the Virgin Birth? 21-6
  • The Dark Side of Religion 14-5
  • The Pearl, the Treasure, the Fool and the Cross 18-6
  • Literal Incarnation or Universal Love? Virgin Birth, Incarnation and Atonement 17-3
  • More on the Canon Question 3-2
  • The Pharisee and the Toll Collector 30-1
  • Retrofitting Prophecy 31-3
  • Review of A. J. M Wedderburn, Beyond Resurrection 13-4
  • Review of Thomas Römer, Dark God: Cruelty, Sex, and Violence in the Old Testament    27-4
  • Review of Ed Husain, The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left 25-2
  • Review of Dr. Jay Lombard, The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul 30-6
  • Review of Tom Christenson, Questioning Assumptions: Rethinking the Philosophy of Religion    28-1
  • Review of Kevin Nelson, M.D., The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain 29-5
  • Jesus Seminar Black Lists 3-3
  • The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics: What Is Really at Stake? 10-1–2
  • Scholarly Presuppositions 14-4
  • Thinking Straight about the Virgin Birth 14-6
  • The Wonder Baby: The Immanuel Prophecy in Isaiah and Matthew    28-2

Moore, E. Maynard

  • The Reformation is Finished: The Protestant Reformation and Its Implications for the Twenty-first-century Church    31-3
  • The Seminar on God and the Human Future: A Report on the 2016 Fall Meeting    30-2

Moredock, Will

  • Unitarian Universalists and the Jesus Seminar 11-1

Moreland, Milton

  • An Interview with Jodi Magness    27-5
  • Review of Avraham Faust, Israel’s Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, and Resistance 24-1
  • Review of Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions
  • in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them) 24-4
  • Review of The Bible’s Buried Secrets written, produced, and directed by Gary Glassman 24-1
  • Review of Burton L. Mack, Christian Mentality: The Entanglements of Power, Violence, and Fear 25-3
  • Review of Heikki Räisänen, The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians 23-6
  • Review of Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography 21-3
  • Review of Lori Anne Ferrell, The Bible and the People 22-3
  • Review of Melanie Johnson-Debaufre, Jesus Among Her Children 21-2
  • Review of Pamela Eisenbaum, Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle 23-2
  • Review of Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible 25-1
  • Review of Megan Bishop Moore and Brad E. Kelle, Biblical History and Israel’s Past: The Changing Study of the Bible and History 24-5
  • Review of Seth L. Sanders, The Invention of Hebrew 25-1

Moxnes, Halvor

  • Lost in Translation: What Happened to the Eunuchs in Matthew 19:12? 17-6

Nelson, Culver H.

  • From the Editor: Ecumenism of Truth 7-1
  • From the Editor: The Fine Line between Myth and Reality 7-3
  • Jesus' Divinity 4-2
  • Westar News: Bridging the Gap Between Town and Gown 5-5
  • Westar News: Canon and Controversy 6-3
  • Westar News: Jesus' Family and The Fourth R 6-1

Norris, Kathleen

  • Fundamentalism Within and Without 3-2

Patterson, Stephen J.

  • David Loves Jonathan  26-4
  • Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven     27-2
  • Fall Meeting 2008: Report from the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins 22-1
  • Fall Meeting 2009: On the Voting Results for the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins 22-4
  • Fall Meeting 2009: On the Voting Results for the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins 23-1
  • Fall Meeting 2011: Report of the Bible Seminar 25-3
  • The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus 6-3
  • In the Beginning Was Talk 5-3
  • The Menu Has Been Revised 4-4
  • Outside the Bible: Can It Be Jesus? 3-3
  • Plato's Gospel: Part One 30-1
  • Plato's Gospel: Part Two 30-2
  • Saint Paul Hated Sex   26-6
  • Sodomy  26-2
  • Spring Meeting 2010: Report from the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins 23-5
  • Spring Meeting 2011: Report of the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins 24-4
  • Was the Resurrection Christianity’s Big Bang? Part One 24-3
  • Was the Resurrection Christianity’s Big Bang? Part Two 24-4
  • When a Man Lies with a Man as with a Woman 25-3

Patterson, Stephen J. and Helmut Koester

  • Secret Mark 4-3

Paulson, Shirley

Pervo, Richard I.

  • Dying and Rising with Paul 23-1
  • Flattery in its Sincerest Manifestation 22-5

Phelps, Hollis

  • Seminar on God and the Human Future: A Report on the 2017 Spring Meeting 30-4

Polkow, Dennis

  • Searching for Jesus in the Holy Land 11-3

Price, Robert M.

  • The Da Vinci Fraud 17-1
  • The Fall of God: A Sermon 30-1
  • The Future of Religion 16-1
  • The Holiness of Desolation: A Sermon   28-3
  • The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible 16-3
  • In the Volume of the Book 17-5
  • Iron John the Baptist 17-4
  • Jesus in Tibet: A Modern Myth 14-3
  • Kettle Logic: A Deconstructive Sermon    27-6
  • Lamps unto Yourselves    27-2
  • A Reply to David Galston, "Who Cares Who Said?"    27-2
  • Responses to Pieter Craffert  26-2
  • Review of Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant 19-4
  • Review of Gerd Lüdemann, Paul the Founder of Christianity 16-1
  • Review of Gerd Lüdemann, Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son 10-3–4
  • Suspension of Disbelief 16-6
  • Tabloid Testament 12-3

Prill, Susan

  • Review of Stephen Prothero, Religious Literacy 21-1

Primavesi, Anne

  • The Christian Gene 14-3

Räisänen, Heikki

  • How Christianity and Islam Challenge
  • Each Other 23-6

Raven, Sea

  • Paul “Made It Up,” but What Happened Is Not His Fault 24-6

Ray, Roger

  • Starting a Church That Even I Would Attend  26-2

Raynal, Gordon

  • Time to Re-mythologize Jesus?: A Challenge to Re-gather the Jesus Seminar   29-4
  • Be Born Again? (aka: “Get a Life!”) …and Jesus said, The hidden will be revealed   28-1
  • Credo: Finding a Common Voice 26-1
  • Gathering Practices: Distinctive Markers of Identity in Earliest Christianity  27-1
  • The Gift of Different Vantage Points: A Response to Robert Miller   28-1
  • How Wisdom Works 22-3
  • Jesus, a Wisdom Theologian 22-4
  • Jesus’ Mission Agenda: A First-Century Home Networking Strategy 24-2
  • Review of Alicia J. Batten and John S. Kloppenborgr, eds., James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions 30-1
  • Review of Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds., The Jewish Annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version 25-6
  • Review of Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, eds., Paul within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century 31-1
  • Review of Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 31-4
  • Saint Paul the Wise 25-2

Reed, Jonathan L.

  • Review of Eric H. Cline, From Eden to Exile 21-2

Richard, Alan Jay

  • The Seminar on God and the Human Future: A Report on the 2017 Fall Meeting 21-2

Robinson, James M.

  • What Jesus Had to Say 8-5–6

Rock, Robert M.

  • Letter from a Former Outsider 5-1

Rohrbaugh, Richard L.

  • Church Canon or Scholars' Canon? 2-6
  • Folio Bible: The Patronage System in Roman Palestine 3-1

Ross, Fred

  • Reading the Gospel of Mark as Secular Literature

Rousseau, John J. and Rami Arav

  • Elusive Bethsaida Recovered 4-1

Rue, Loyal D.

  • Death and Salvation    29-4
  • Taking Nature to Heart    28-2

Sawicki, Marianne

  • Review of Joseph Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth

Schellenberg, J.L.

  • The Hiddenness Argument 30-2

Schimmel, Solomon

  • The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs 23-2

Schmidt, Daryl D.

Schwartz, Bob

  • Fiction or Nonfiction? 10-5

Schweitzer-Mordecai, Ruth

  • The Jesus Intervention 8-3–4

Scott, Bernard Brandon

  • Did Jesus Speak Greek? 15-6
  • Father Knows Best: Fundamentalism and our Apocalyptic Future 16-6
  • God of the Crucified Messiah 30-6
  • Living in a Re-Imagined World 14-5
  • Profiles of Jesus: The Reappearance of Parables 10-1–2
  • On the Road Again 16-2
  • Responses to Pieter Craffert  26-2

Sellew, Philip

  • Teaching Scenes in Mark: Jesus Explains the Mysteries of His Teaching 3-5

Shea, Chris

  • Christianity Seminar: Report on the 2015 Spring Meeting   28-4
  • What Isn’t in a Name? Naming and the Mission of Acts 23-5
  • Report from the 2013 Spring Meeting (collated)  26-3

Sheehan, Thomas

Short, Mike

  • Advent Meditations 17-5
  • E=MC2 17-3
  • Review of Henry A. Garon, The Cosmic Mystique 21-5
  • Review of Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?    27-2
  • Review of Kris Komarnitsky, Doubting Jesus Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? 22-6
  • Review of Stephen W. Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design 24-3

Shorto, Russell

  • Who Put the Hell in Hellenism? A Non-Scholar Takes the Historical Jesus on the Road 10-5

Shurden, Walter B.

  • The Southern Baptist Controversy 4-4

Smith, Dennis E.

  • Fall Meeting 2008: On the Voting Results for the Acts Seminar 22-2
  • Fall Meeting 2009: On the Voting Results for the Acts Seminar 22-4
  • Fall Meeting 2009: On the Voting Results for the Acts Seminar 23-2
  • Review of Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence 30-3
  • Review of Robert Knapp, Invisible Romans 29-4
  • Review of Maia Kotrosits and Hal Taussig, Re-reading the Gospel of Mark amidst Loss and Trauma   28-3
  • Review of Jodi Magness, Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus 25-4
  • Review of Howard Schwartz, Tree of Souls 18-3

Smith, Mahlon H.

  • By Whose Authority? 5-3
  • Did That Really Happen? 4-4
  • For Those Who Cast Stones: A Reply to Critics of the Jesus Seminar 2-3
  • Healers Contemporary with Jesus 6-1
  • Impose your imperial rule 14-1
  • In Quest of Insight 15-4
  • Jesus and Demons: Comparative Texts 5-3
  • Jesus and Demons: Gospel Stories 5-3
  • Jesus, M.D.? 6-1
  • Portraits of Jesus: Rudolf Bultmann and Jesus as the Word 3-6
  • Q: Black by Consensus 2-5
  • Westar News: On the Agenda, Spring 1992 meeting 4-6

Spencer, Jamie

  • Fictional Religion: Great Books that Carry On the Good Book’s Work: Part One 24-4
  • Fictional Religion: Great Books that Carry On the Good Book’s Work: Part Two 25-1

Spong, John Shelby

Stoneman, Donnell

  • Paul Verhoeven: Film Maker 3-1

Streete, Gail

  • Review of Amy-Jill Levine, The Misunderstood Jew 21-5

Switzer, Les

  • A Manifesto for Progressive Christians 30-5

Tarkki, Jarmo

  • Lloyd Geering: Still Not Guilty   26-3
  • Marcus Borg's Convictions    29-1
  • The Paradox of Liberal Religion 18-4
  • The Seminar on God and the Human Future: Report on the 2015 Spring Meeting    28-4

Tatum, W. Barnes

  • Review of Dale Allison, The Jewish Jesus 14-1
  • Jesus - The Mini-Series     13-4
  • Bookshelf: Religious Literacy, Basic Books 5-4
  • Bookshelf: Religious Literacy, Basic Books Part II 5-5
  • Bookshelf: Religious Literacy, Basic Books Part III 5-6
  • Bookshelf: Reynolds Price, Raymond Brown, Richard Horsley 4-5
  • Bookshelf: The Christian Origins of Anti-Semitism 8-3–4
  • Jesus at the Movies 11-1
  • A Review of Scorsese's Last Temptation 2-3
  • The Second Coming of the Dead Sea Scrolls 6-5
  • Understanding the Diverse Dimension of Life and Culture Called Religion 3-3
  • Who Was John the Baptizer? 7-1

Taussig, Hal

  • Behind and Before the Lord's Prayer 11-3
  • Christianity Seminar: A Report on the Fall 2014 Meeting    28-2
  • Christianity Seminar: A Report on the Fall 2016 Meeting    30-2
  • Christianity Seminar: A Report on the Fall 2017 Meeting    31-2
  • Grassroots Progressive Christianity 19-3

Templeton, David

  • Guilt Trip: Robert Funk weighs in on ugly "Passion 17-1

Trudeau, Richard

  • How I Stopped Cringing at Jesus’ Name: The Lost Gospels Q and Q1   29-6
  • Mother of Us All: Promethean Eve   28-1
  • The Ten Commandments and an Atheist’s Ten Suggestions   30-4
  • The Torah Is a Braid: Different Concepts of God   27-6

Tuten, Belle

  • Jihad and Hijab: What I wish American Christians knew about Islam 30-3

Tyson, Joseph B.

  • Review of Robert M. Price, The Pre-Nicene New Testament 20-5
  • Second-Century Theologians: Marcion 22-3
  • Why Dates Matter 18-2

Van Hagen, John

  • Ezekiel, a Prophet for Our Times? 30-4
  • From Paralyzing Trauma to New Identity: The Development of Second-Century Christianity 19-1
  • From Canaanite Ritual to Jewish Passover and Christian Eucharist: Profiles in Courage 22-1
  • Jewish Myth and Priestly Politics 25-2
  • Promises, Promises: The Myth of Salvation History   26-5
  • Rescuing God 24-6
  • Rerouting Jesus: Why Luke Changed Jesus’ Itinerary 31-4
  • Rethinking Second Isaiah's Radical Theology: Do we still need a God of history?    28-6
  • Review of Donald Capps, Jesus the Village Psychiatrist 22-1
  • Review of Stewart A. Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred 22-4

Veitch, James

Verhoeven, Paul

  • The First Will Be First 16-3
  • The Meaning of Exorcisms: The Q Jesus and the Historical Jesus 25-4
  • My Search for the Historical Jesus: An Interview with author Paul Verhoeven 24-6
  • Update: Christ the Man 4-1

Walker, William O., Jr.

  • Authentic Existence: The Debate over Demythologizing    27-2
  • Did Martin Luther Get It All Wrong about Faith in Christ?    29-6
  • “Faith in Christ” or “Christ’s Faith/Faithfulness”?:  A Response to Lane C. McGaughy    29-6
  • Interpolations in the Letters of Paul 23-4
  • Maybe Paul Didn’t Hate Sex: A Response to Stephen Patterson     27-5
  • The “Paulinization” of Peter in the Book of Acts 22-3
  • Paul on the Status and Role of Women: The Apostle as Radical Egalitarian 25-2
  • What the New Testament Says about Homosexuality     21-3

Watkins, Steve

  • Dragon Snakes and Fictitious Grapes: What Happens When Myths Are Literalized  26-2
  • Faitheism: Religion for Atheists and Science for Creationists    28-3
  • Review of Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman    28-4
  • Review of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright    27-3

White, John L.

  • Review of Maximilian Russer, Authority in the Roman Catholic Church 5-2
  • Paul: A New Perspective 6-6

Whitney-Smith, Elin

  • Review of Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth 21-4

Wilson, J. Christian

  • Bookshelf: The Dead Sea Scrolls 4-1

Williams, Patricia

  • The Evolution of Good and Evil 18-1
  • Illuminating Black Boxes 19-1
  • The Jesus Agenda: Christianity for a New Century 23-1
  • Review of Richard G. Olson, Science and Religion 20-6
  • Science and the Bible in Dialogue: III: In the End 21-6

Wink, Walter

Winters, Larry

  • Hidden Treasure: What Einstein and Genesis Have in Common 24-1

Wyrick, Jim

  • An Associate's Reaction to the Scholars Version of Mark 3-5
  • Why Am I Here? 4-2

Zimmerman, Charles

  • The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas 24-6
  • Montanus: Heretic or Spirit-Filled Prophet?    26-6
  • Second-Century Theologians: Irenaeus of Lyons 22-4

Zimmerman, Michael

  • The Clergy Letter Project 22-5
  • The Evolution-Creation Controversy: Why it Matters, Part One 23-6
  • The Evolution-Creation Controversy: Why it Matters, Part Two 24-1

Uncredited

  • Creeds Questions and Votes 4-2
  • Genesis Parallels: Sample Pages 2-6
  • Gospel of John: Black List 3-6
  • Gospel of Thomas Black List 2-6
  • Gospel of Thomas: Prior Votes Ready to Print 2-6
  • Jesus and Demons: Biblical and Other Lore 5-3
  • Jesus the Social Gadfly 2-5
  • Letter from Kentucky 11-2
  • Scholars Version: Mark 1:40–2:283:5
  • Survey: What Gospels to Include in Scholars Version? 2-5