Forum Third Series began in 2007 and transitioned to an electronic-only journal in 2013. New issues come out every April and October. See an index of articles below.
Volume 9
9,2 (Fall 2020): Gender as a Lens to Interrogate Second-Century Jesus Movements
- Preface
- Thinking through Gender in the Second-Century Jesus Movements – Celene Lillie
- The Gender of Martyrdom – Virginia Burrus
- (Re)reading Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire One Year Later – David Wheeler-Reed
- Women: Their Visibility and Agency and Loss of Agency in Early Christian Texts – Joanna Dewey
9,1 (Spring 2020): The Value of Rhetoric in the Ancient Christian Context
- Preface
- Learning from Rhetoric in the Study of Paul: Gal 1:10–20 – Nina E. Livesey
- Is Jesus YHWH? Two De-Judaizing Trajectories of Marcion and Justin – David E. Wilhite
- Prophecy, Christology, and Anti-Judaism in Justin Martyr – Eobert J. Miller
- Re-defining “Solitude”: Monastic Registers of Fictive (and Factual) Family – Lillian I. Larsen
Volume 8
8,2 (Fall 2019): Christianity Seminar: Estimating Authority and Ritual Practice
- Preface
- Cursing and the Apostle – The Fight for Authority in Early Christianity (Tony Burke)
- The Contested Authority of Paul in the Second Century (Jason Beduhn)
- Changing Courses – Eucharistic Origins (Andrew McGowan)
- The Ritual of the Hellenistic Meal – Early Christian Everyday Practice as an Exegetical Challenge (Soham Al-Suadi)
8,1 (Spring 2019): Christianity Seminar: Religious Identity, Violence, and Roman Power
- Preface
- Judith Perkins and “Christian” Identity Formation (Richard S. Ascough)
- Difference and Similarity (Nina E. Livesey)
- Hidden Transcripts of Violence and Partial Recovery in the First Two Centuries (Hal Taussig)
- The Arch of Titus (Bernard Brandon Scott)
Volume 7
7,2 (Fall 2018): God Seminar: The Displacement of Theology
- Preface
- The Meaning of Heresy for Today: On Theo-Political Resistance from Spinoza to Prince (Jeffrey Robbins)
- Surveying Heidegger for Theology’s Future (David Galston)
- Paul Tillich and the Discourse of Political Theology (Clayton Crockett)
- Archive Theology and the God of Paul (David Galston)
7,1 (Spring 2018): Christianity Seminar: Musings on Christian Origins
- Preface
- The Quest for Christian Origins (Burton Mack)
- The Labors of Burton Mack: Scholarship That’s Made a Difference (Ron Cameron)
- Where We Go Next—Big Questions for the Big Picture: A Response to Burton Mack, and Reflections on the Future of the Christianity Seminar (Maia Kotrosits)
- In the Beginning Was the House: Part One: How Social and Identity Formation of Early Christian Groups Took Place (Dennis E. Smith)
- In the Beginning Was the House: Part Two: The Exegetical Data (Dennis E. Smith)
Volume 6
6,2 (Fall 2017): Christianity Seminar: The Language of Apocalyptic
- Preface (Arthur J. Dewey)
- God, ReTALIation, and the Apocalyptic Scenario (Lane C. McGaughy)
- Switchback Codes: Paul, Apocalyptic, and the Art of Resistance (Arthur J. Dewey)
- From the Herodians to Hadrian: The Shifting Status of Judean Religion in Post-Flavian Rome (Heidi Wendt)
- Judean Diaspora, Judean War: Class and Networks (John W. Marshall)
6,1 (Spring 2017): Christianity Seminar: Rethinking Martyrdom in Early Christian Identity
- Preface (Carly Daniel-Hughes)
- Producing and Contesting Martyrdom in Pre-Decian Roman North Africa (Carly Daniel-Hughes)
- Gladiators and Martyrs: Icons in the Arena (Susan M. (Elli) Elliott)
- What Do Fiction, Mass Crucifixions and Killer Seals Add Up To?: Summarizing Breakthroughs in Martyrdom Scholarship Since 1990 (Hal Taussig)
- Sovereignty in Ruins: The Death of Ignatius and Ecologies of Destruction (Maia Kotrosits)
Volume 5
5,2 (Fall 2016): God Seminar: Opening the Discussion on God and the Human Future
- Preface (David Galston)
- Contending with Postmodern Hermeneutics and Biblical Criticism: Thinking Philosophical Theology with the Jesus Seminar (David Galston)
- A Short Précis of The Weakness of God and The Insistence of God (John D. Caputo)
- Moving Words: Theology and the Performance of Proposing (Joseph Bessler)
- Plato and Christian Belief (John Kelly)
- Hylotheism: Life as a Slide Show (Jarmo Tarkki)
5,1 (Spring 2016): Reflections on the Category Gnosticism
- Preface (Maia Kotrosits)
- Questioning the Category of Gnosticism for the Rewriting of the History of Early Christianity: An Appreciation and Extension of the Work of Karen King (Hal Taussig)
- But What Do We Call It?: The Secret Revelation of John and Crises of Categories (Maia Kotrosits)
- What Categories Are Left?: A Conversation with Karen King’s What is Gnosticism? (Bernard Brandon Scott)
- “Are you, or have you ever been, a gnostic?”: Caricatures, Blacklists, and Understanding the Aspirations and Lives of Real People (Michael Williams)
Volume 4
4,2 (Fall 2015): Challenging Common Conceptions of Early Christianity
- Preface (Nina E. Livesey)
- John’s Radical Rewriting of Luke-Acts (Dennis R. MacDonald)
- Acts in Ephesus (and Environs) c. 115 (Richard I. Pervo)
- How Acts Constructed the Itinerary of Paul: Conclusions Excerpted from the Acts Seminar Report (Dennis E. Smith)
- The New Marcion: Rethinking the “Arch-Heretic” (Jason BeDuhn)
- Social Fragmentation and Cosmic Rhetoric: Interpretations of Isaiah in the Nag Hammadi Codices (Maia Kotrosits)
- Second-Century Imaginations of Social Unity: A Survey of the Gospel of Truth, the Letter of Peter to Philip, the Post-Pauline Letter to the Ephesians, and The Thunder: Perfect Mind (Hal Taussig)
4,1 (Spring 2015): Early Christianity in its Mediterranean Contexts
- Preface (Chris Shea)
- Per Omnia Saecula Saeculorum: Worlds Colliding and Created (Arthur J. Dewey)
- Roman Apocalypses: Death, Doom, and Delight in the Early Empire (Chris Shea)
- Women in the Authentic Letters of Paul (Nina E. Livesey)
- The Old Testament and Second-Century Christians (Joseph B. Tyson)
- By the Books: Canon Formation among the Romans (Chris Shea)
Volume 3
3,2 (Fall 2014): Looking Back: Assessing the Work of Rudolf Bultmann
- Preface (Lane C. McGaughy)
- The Legacy of Rudolf Bultmann and the Ideal of a Fully Critical Theology (Schubert M. Ogden)
- Reflections on Konrad Hammann’s Biography of Rudolf Bultmann—with Implications for Christology (Philip Devenish)
- Demythologizing and Christology (William O. Walker, Jr.)
- Kêrygma and History in the Thought of Rudolf Bultmann (Gerd Lüdemann)
- The ‘Gospel’ and the Emperor Cult: From Bultmann to Crossan (Jon F. Dechow)
3,1 (Spring 2014): Syria and Christian Origins
- Preface (Clayton N. Jefford)
- Paneas/Caesarea Philippi and the World of the Gospels (John Francis Wilson)
- Peter’s Antiochene Apostasy—Re‐Judaizing or Imperial Conformism? An Inter‐textual Exploration (Brigitte Kahl)
- Locating the Didache (Clayton N. Jefford)
- Visualizing the Christian Community at Antioch: The Window of the Didache (Nancy Pardee)
- “That By His Passion He May Purify the Water”: Ignatius of Antioch and the Beginning of Mark’s Gospel (Charles A. Bobertz)
- Story and Ritual as the Foundation of Nations (Helmut Koester)
Volume 2
2,2 (Fall 2013): Rethinking the Book of Acts
- Preface (Nina E. Livesey)
- Religious Practices of Early Christian Converts According to Acts 2:41–47 (Dennis E. Smith)
- Is There a There There?: Looking for Antioch in the Former Antioch Source (Richard I. Pervo)
- What Athens Has in Common with Jerusalem: The Speeches in Acts as Historical Record (Richard I. Pervo)
- Circumcision as a Means of Testing the Historicity of Acts 16:1–5 (Nina E. Livesey)
- “And So We Left Troy/Troas”: Pseudo-Luke’s Imitation of the “We-Voyages” in Homer’s Odyssey (Dennis MacDonald)
- Historical issues in Acts 28:11–31 (Gerd Lüdemann)
2,1 (Spring 2013): Galilee and Christian Origins
- Preface (Stephen J. Patterson)
- The Trouble with Q (William Arnal)
- Postcolonial Issues Post-Calvary: Which Imperial Overlay Defined Galilee—the Roman-Herodian, or the Judean-Hasmonean? (Marianne Sawicki)
- A Galilean Provenance for the Gospel of Mark? (Joanna Dewey)
- First-century Christianities: Galilee (James M. Robinson)
Volume 1
1,2 (Fall 2007): The Quest of Christian Origins
- Preface (Mahlon H. Smith)
- When Did Christianity Begin? (Philip E. Devenish)
- Did Christianity Begin with the Resurrection? (Joseph A. Bessler)
- The Resurrection of Jesus and Christian Origins (Daniel A. Smith)
- Acts – A Myth of Christian Origins (Joseph B. Tyson)
- Did Christianity Begin at Pentecost?: Reflections on the Question (Shelly Matthews)
- Did Christianity Begin at Pentecost?: Beginnings and the Ends Thereof (Todd Penner)
- “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”: Paul and the Origins of Christianity (Arthur J. Dewey)
- Christian Origins Seminar Voting Record
1,1 (Spring 2007): Reconstructing Historical Context
- Preface (Mahlon H. Smith)
- Writing and Imitation: Greek Education in the Greco-Roman World (Rubén R. Dupertius)
- Education in Roman Palestine (Christine Shea)
- The Implications of a Late Date for Acts (Joseph B. Tyson)
- The Apocalypses and Acts of Paul: Do They Know the Pauline Epistles? (Robert M. Price)
- Evidence for a Christian Goddess: The Bendis-Zodiac Relief at Philippi (Valerie Abrahamsen)
- Acts Seminar Voting Record