Forum Old Series (1985 – 1994)

Forum Old Series ran from 1985 to 1994. See an index of articles below.

Volume 1 (1985)

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• An Introduction to the Journal
• The Issue of Jesus (Robert W. Funk): The opening remarks of Jesus Seminar Chairman Funk, presented at the first meeting held 21–24 March 1985 in Berkeley, California
• Testing the Waters at the Bay: Questions addressed at the first Jesus Seminar meeting
• Picking Up the Pieces (Bernard Brandon Scott): The first of the formal reviews of John Dominic Crossan’s book, In Fragments
• From Aphorism to Sayings Gospel, and from Parable to Narrative Gospel (Werner H. Kelber): The second of the formal reviews of John Dominic Crossan’ s book, In Fragments
• Charter Fellows: A list of the Charter Fellows of the Jesus Seminar
• Polling the Pundits (Robert W. Funk):
• Form and Function (Robert W. Funk): The Jesus Seminar: What it is and how its membership will function

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• Gilgamesh and the Wizard of Oz: The Scholar as Hero (Burton L. Mack)
• Corresponding Fellows: A list of the Corresponding Fellows of the Jesus Seminar as of 5 September 1985
• Picking Up the Fragments: From Crossan’s Analysis to Rhetorical Analysis (Vernon K. Robbins): The third formal review of John Dominic Crossan’ s book, In Fragments

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• From Parable to Gospel: Domesticating the Tradition (Robert W. Funk)
• From Parable to Gospel: Addenda (Jon F. Dechow )
• Pen Fellows (Robert W. Funk)
• The Jesus Seminar: A Pronouncement (Charles W. Hedrick)
• Pragmatic Relations as a Criterion for Authentic Sayings (Vernon K. Robbins)

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• Criteria of Authenticity: The Lucan Beatitudes as a Test Case (M. Eugene Boring)
• The Reagan Paradigm (David Carter & F. A. Hutchison)
• Revolutions in the Jesus Tradition: From Bonnie to Dominic (M. Eugene Boring): An autobiographical profile in which the author discusses his background and the influences that shaped his career

Volume 2 (1986)

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• Essaying the Rock: The Authenticity of the Jesus Parable Tradition (Bernard Brandon Scott)
• Poll on the Parables (Robert w. Funk)

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• Parable and Interpretation in the Gospel of Thomas (Ron Cameron)
• The Treasure Parable in Matthew and Thomas (Charles W. Hedrick)
• A Review o f New Gospel Parallels (William G. Doty)
• WestWord: A Magazine for Epic, Rhetoric and the Bible:
• Matters of Moment: Inaugural Editorial of the Westword Magazine (Robert W. Funk)
• The Jesus Seminar and Its Public (Hal Taussig)

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• The Wisdom Sayings of Jesus (Leo G. Perdue)
• Blessing and Marginality: The ‘Persecution Beatitude’ in Q, Thomas & Early Christianity (John S. Kloppenborg)
• A Review of Rediscovering Paul (Dennis E. Smith)
• From Parable to Gospel: A Response Using the Social Sciences (Paul H. Hollenbach)
• The Power of Language: An Autobiographical Sketch (Leo G. Perdue)
• A Temperate Case for a Non-Eschatological Jesus (Marcus J. Borg)
• The Beatitudes and Turn the Other Cheek: Recommendations and Polling (Robert W. Funk)

2,4

• Fred Owens Francis: 7 November 1934–16 December 1984
• Three Tributes to Fred O. Francis (John S. Lown, Burton L. Mack & J. Paul Sampley)
• From Audita to Legenda: Oral And Written Miracle Stories (Dennis Ronald MacDonald)
• The Light and Voice on the Damascus Road (Marvin W. Meyer)
• The Miraculous in the GrecoRoman Historians (John S. Lown)
• Miracle Stories in Christian Antiquity: Some Narrative Elements (Susan Marie Praeder)
• Synoptic Miracle Stories: A Jewish Religious and Social Setting (Colin Brown)
• Ancient Miracle Stories & Women’s Social World (Antoinette Wire)
• “Divine Men” and Society (Anitra B. Kolenkow)
• New Red-Letter Edition of the Five Gospels: Sample Pages

Volume 3 (1987)

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• The Kingdom Sayings in Mark (Burton L. Mack)
• Kingdom in the Gospel of Thomas (Karen King)
• Probing the Polling: Jesus Seminar Results on the Kingdom Sayings (James R. Butts)

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• The Cross that Spoke: The Earliest Narrative of the Passion and Resurrection (JohnDominic Crossan)
• Models and Muddles: Discussions of the Social Facets Seminar (Richard Rohrbaugh)
• The Way of the Cross: Was There a Pre-Markan Passion Narrative? (John L. White)
• Kingdom Come, Kingdom Sung: Voices in the Gospels (Bruce Chilton)
• The Empty Jar (Bernard Brandon Scott)
• The Jesus Seminar and the Passion Sayings (Marcus J. Borg)
• Sayings of Jesus: Classification by Source and Authenticity (James R. Butts, Ron Cameron)

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• Scaling the Strongman’s Court (Luke 11:21) (L. Michael White)
• Narrative Commentaries on the Bible: Context, Roots, and Prospects (Stephen D. Moore)
• Sayings of the Suffering and Risen Christ: The Quadruple Tradition (Robert Tomson Fortna)
• The Last Supper Discourse in Luke 22:21–38 (Philip Sellew)
• Passion Apologetic, the Chreia, and the Narrative (James R. Butts)

3,4

• Binding and Loosing: Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18; John 20:23 (Dennis C. Duling)
• The Buying Power of Two Denarii: A Comment on Luke 10:35 (Douglas E. Oakman)
• Patronage and Clientism in Early Christian Society: A Short Reading Guide (John H. Elliott)
• Beware of Leavened Bread: Markan Imagery in the Last Supper (John L. White)

Volume 4 (1988)

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• Patron and Client: The Analogy Behind Synoptic Theology (Bruce J. Malina)
• The Crucifixion and the Speech of Jesus (Vernon K. Robbins)
• Seeing is Not Believing: The History of a Beatitude in the Jesus Tradition (Ron Cameron)

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• Pronouncement Stories from a Rhetorical Perspective (Vernon K. Robbins)
• Lincoln: An American Gospel (R. Alan Culpepper)
• Religion Newswriters: Finally Getting Some Respect (Benjamin J. Hubbard)
• The Wild Bunch and Violence in Film (David Carter)

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• A Conflict Approach to Mark 7 (Bruce J. Malina)
• A Structural Functional Analysis of Mark 7 (John J. Pilch)
• A Symbolic Approach to Mark 7 (Jerome H. Neyrey)
• Beelzebul in Mark 3: Dialogue, Story, or Sayings Cluster? (Philip Sellew)
• Rulers’ Houses, Thieves, and Usurpers: The Beelzebul Pericope (Douglas E. Oakman)
• Gospel of Mark Parables and Aphorisms (Robert W. Funk)

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• Materials and Methods in Historical Jesus Research (John Dominic Crossan)
• The Lord’s Prayer (Hal Taussig)
• The Fear of the Leer: The Evil Eye From the Bible to Li’l Abner (John H. Elliott)
• Unclean, Common, Polluted, and Taboo: A Short Reading Guide (Jerome H. Neyrey)
• No Place for a Son of Man (Mahlon H. Smith)
• Sayings from Q: Parables Round Two (Roy W. Hoover)

Volume 5 (1989)

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• The Violence of American: Typological Revisionism (Charles Mabee)
• Civil Religion, Military Religion Roman and American (John Helgeland)
• The Myth of Athur: Updated and Undone (Chris Shea)
• Myth, Aphorism, and the Christ as Sign (James G. Williams)
• The Inside is (Not) the Outside: Q 11:39–41 and Thomas 89 (Robert J. Miller)
• The Dangers of Lying in Bed: Luke 17:34–35 and Parallels (Clayton N. Jefford)
• Entering the Narrow Door: Matt 7:13–14//Luke 13:22–24 (Rod Parrott)
• Jesus’ Reply to John: Matt 11:26//Luke 7:18–23 (Walter Wink)

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• Three Tributes to John S. Kloppenborg (Helmut Koester, James M. Robinson, Robert W.Funk)
• Neither Here Nor There: Between Wisdom and Apocalyptic in Jesus’ Kingdom Sayings(James G. Williams)
• Unraveling the Jesus Tradition: Criteria and Criticism (Robert W. Funk)
• Children Sitting in the Agora Q (Luke) 7:31–35 (Wendy J. Cotter)
• The Q Sayings on Anxiety (Q 12:27) (John S. Kloppenborg)
• A Prophetic Pronouncement Q 12:42–46 (Arthur J. Dewey)
• Quibbling Over Serifs: Observations on Matt 5:18/Luke 16:17 (Arthur J. Dewey)
• Fire and Dissension: Ipsissima Vox Jesu in Q 12:49, 51–53? (Stephen J. Patterson)
• When ‘Eagles’ Draw Together (Heinz O. Guenther)
• Putting One’s Hand to the Plow: The Authenticity of Q 9:61–62 (Michael G. Steinhauser)
• Q1 and the Historical Jesus:  Some Peculiar Sayings (7:33–34; 9:57–58, 59–60; 14:26–27) (Leif E. Vaage)
• The Lord’s Prayer and Other Items From the Sermon on the Mount (Robert J. Miller)
• Luke 14:26 and the Question of Authenticity (Robert H. Stein)

5,3

• Postmodern Biblical Criticism (Robert M. Fowler)
• On Postmodern Biblical Criticism and Exegesis (George Aichele, Jr.) A Response to Robert Fowler
• Postmodernism and Biblical Studies (Stephen D. Moore) A Response to Robert Fowler
• Literary Fantasy and the Composition of the Gospels (George Aichele, Jr.)
• From Syntax to Semantics (Hendrikus Boers) A Review of Robert Funk, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
• On Bridges and Abutments (Jerry Camery-Hoggatt) A Review of Robert Funk, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
• Discourse of Biblical Narratology (Gary A. Phillips) A Review of Robert Funk, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
• Commentary on Biblical Narratives: Changing Paradigms (R. Alan Culpepper)
• “And an Answer was Heard from the Cross…”: (Arthur J. Dewey) A Response to J. Dominic Crossan

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• Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (Richard A. Horsley)
• Jesus and the Spiral of Violence (Dennis E. Smith) A Review of Richard A. Horsley
• Social Theory as Exegetical Tool (Jefferson Powell)
• W/Riting Black Theology (Thee Smith)
• A Review of Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: A New Vision (D. Moody Smith)
• The Synoptic Use of HIT-TIM: An Appeal for a Context-sensitive Translation (Arthur J.Dewey)
• Scholars Version Sample: Mark 4:35–5:43

Volume 6 (1990)

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• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records Sorted by Gospel, Chapter, and Verse
• A Fair Face is Half the Portion: The Lot Saying in Luke 17:28–29 (Heinz O. Guenther)
• The Sayings on Anxieties: Matt 6:25–34 and Luke 12:22–32 (Michael G. Steinhauser)
• Kinship is Relative: Mark 3:31–35 and Parallels (Mahlon H. Smith)

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• Against Oaths: Crossan Sayings Parallels 59 (Dennis C. Duling)
• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records Sorted by Weighted Average

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• The Sayings of Jesus in Mark 4:21–22, 24b–25 (Michael G. Steinhauser)
• On Moving Mountains: Mark 11:22b–23/Matt 21:21 and Parallels (Charles W. Hedrick)
• Salting the Salt: Q 14:34–35 and Mark 9:49–50 (Perry V. Kea)
• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records Sorted by Gospels, by Weighted Average
• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records Sorted by Grouped Parallels, by Weighted Average

Volume 7 (1991)

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• Neither Passivity nor Violence: Jesus’ Third Way (Matt 5:38–42//Luke 6:29–30) (Walter Wink)
• Solomon’s Egyptian Horses and Exotic Wives (John Barclay Burns)
• Forgiving at and Swearing by the Temple (Bruce Chilton)
• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records Sorted by Clusters, by Weighted Average
• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records Sorted Alphabetically by Title

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• Jesus and Gnosis: The Saying on Hindering Others in Luke 11:52 and Its Parallels(Arland J. Hultgren)
• The Canon: Adaptable and Stable, Oral and Written (David L. Balch)
• To Judge the Son of Man: The Synoptic Sayings (Mahlon H. Smith)
• Here and There: A Response to James G. Williams (David Seeley)
• Beelzebul Controversy in Mark and Luke: Rhetorical and Social Analysis (Vernon K.Robbins)
• The Historical Jesus and the Mission Speech in Q 10:2–12 (Willi Braun)
• The Sexual Politics of Luke’s Mary and Martha Account: An Evaluation of the Historicity of Luke 10:38–42 (Hal Taussig)

Volume 8 (1992)

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• Historical Method and the Deeds of Jesus: The Test Case of the Temple Demonstration(Robert J. Miller)
• A New Parallels Version of Samuel, Kings, Chronicles (John C. Endres, S.J.)
• The Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptic Tradition (Stephen J. Patterson)
• Luke 19:42-44 and Jesus as Prophet (Marcus J. Borg)
• The Unkindest Cut of All? Matt 19:11–12 (Arthur J. Dewey)
• The Identity and Significance of the Neaniskos in Mark (Steven R. Johnson)
• Aphorisms of Jesus in Mark: A Stratigraphic Analysis (Philip Selew)

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The Looking Glass: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Funk

• Greetings to the Honoree (Lane C. McGaughy)
• Jesus and the Leper (John Dominic Crossan)
• Matthew’s Parable of the Two Sons (Ron Cameron)
• Reading Jesus’ Parable of the Talents through Underclass Eyes: Matt 25:14–30 (RobertT. Fortna)
• A Short History of Parable Interpretation, Part 1 (Lane C. McGaughy)
• Paul’s Viper Acts 28:36 (Lou H. Silberman)
• The Narrator’s Strategy in the Scenes of Paul’s Defense (Robert C. Tannehill)
• God’s Paternity as Root Metaphor in Paul’s Conception of Community (John L. White)
• Apocalypse and Politics (Adela Yarbro Collins)
• After the Future: From Mad Max to the Destruction of the Temple (Bernard Brandon Scott)
• From the Traditional Monomythic Hero to the Contemporary Polymythic Hero/ine (William G. Doty)
• Publications of Robert W. Funk (John L. White)

Volume 9 (1993)

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• The More Basic Method in the Sociology of Early Christianity (Anthony Blasi)
• The Cultural Management of Space and Time in the Narrative Gospel of Mark (Peter Staples)
• The Construction and Social Function of a Counter Cosmos in the Revelation of John(David A. de Silva)
• Greco-Roman Studies and the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible: A Classified Periodical Bibliography (K. C. Hanson)
• The Kingdom o f God in the Q Version of the Beelzebul Controversy (Michael Humphries)
• The Fate of the Notion of Canon in the Electronic Age (Robert M. Fowler)

9,3-4 [Out of Print]

Volume 10 (1994)

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• On the Compositional History of the Gospel of Thomas (Hans Martin Schenke)
• The Gospel of Thomas and the Case for Jesus as Teacher of Common Wisdom (Hal E. Taussig)
• Pious Practice and Social Formation in the Gospel of Thomas: Thomas 6, 14, 27, 53,104  (Philip Sellew)
• Against Anxieties: Thomas 36 and the Historical Jesus (John Dominic Crossan)
• A Passing Remark: Thomas 42 (Arthur J. Dewey)
• To Live and Die in Thomas 61 (Sterling Bjorndahl)
• Drawing a Blank from the Well: Thomas 74 (Robert J. Miller)
• Bearing the Yoke: A Tradition Of Wisdom Behind Thomas 90 (Clayton N. Jefford)

10,3-4

• Why Did Christians Say: “God Raised Jesus from the Dead”? (1 Cor 15 and the Origins of the Resurrection Tradition) (Stephen J. Patterson)
• The Resurrection of Jesus: The Greatest Hoax in History? (Gerd Luedemann)
• Resurrection Texts in the Gospel of Peter (Arthur J. Dewey)
• Mark Intimates/Matthew Defends the Resurrection (Robert T. Fortna)
• Historicizing the Transhistorical: The Transfiguration Narrative (Robert J. Miller)
• The Resurrection and Historical Evidence: Wolfhart Pannenberg on 1 Cor 15 (W. Barnes Tatum)
• The Jesus Seminar: Voting Records: The Resurrection Appearances