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Julius Wellhausen, Reviving the Documentary Hypothesis.
The Re-Emergence of Source Criticism: The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis
By Joel S. Baden
It is perhaps overly dramatic to refer to the existence of two competing schools of thought as a crisis. It is, after all,
difficult to think of a single aspect of biblical scholarship in which there are not dissenting opinions, contradictory readings, or diverse historical
reconstructions.
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Did Jesus Exist? The Trouble with Certainty in Historical Jesus Scholarship
By Thomas S. Verenna
In a forthcoming volume, soon to be published in the Copenhagen International Seminar Series, a group of
scholars contribute essays on the current crisis in the scholarship that is dedicated to the historical figure of Jesus.
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Implications of the “Forgery Trial” Verdict on the Authenticity of the James Ossuary
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al
On Yoseh, Yosi, Joseph, and Judas son of Jesus in Talpiot
By Kevin Kilty and Mark Elliott
Bayes’ Theorem and the Modern Historian: Proving History Requires Improving Methods
By Richard Carrier
A New Explanation of the Resurrection of Jesus: The Result of Mourning
By Gerd Lüdemann
The Turin Shroud and Easter Stories
By Antonio Lombatti
The Hebrew Name “YONAH” Embedded in the Image of the Fish on the Talpiot Tomb Ossuary
By James D. Tabor
Renewed Excavations in Tel Shikmona
By Michael Eisenberg and Shay Bar
Prosopographic Note on Josephus Flavius
By Claude Cohen-Matlofsky
Observations on the “Jonah” Iconography on the Ossuary of Talpiot B Tomb
By Antonio Lombatti
The Ossuary of James the Brother of Jesus: From Trial to Truth?
By Paul V.M. Flesher
Archaeology in Israel Update--February/March 2012
By Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg
Excavations at Kh. el-Maqatir 1995–2000, 2009–2011
By Bryant G. Wood
Imagining a Secular Translation of the New Testament
By Zeba Crook
In My View - Opinion
The Bible Meets Modernity
By Erhard S. Gerstenberger
Presupposing an all-round contextuality of biblical messages, we have already admitted a tight affinity between ancient cultures and
biblical concepts of the world, mankind, God, etc.
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Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavations Find Evidence Of Solomon's Temple, Archaeologists Say
Huffington Post: May 11, 2012
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Hunting the Whale
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Judging THE Book By Its Cover
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Implications of the “Forgery Trial” Verdict on the Authenticity of the James Ossuary
By Amnon Rosenfeld et al
Did Jesus Exist? The Trouble with Certainty in Historical Jesus Scholarship
By Thomas S. Verenna
Identity Matters: Judean Ethnic Identity In The First Century CE
By Philip F. Esler
A Preliminary Report of a 1st Century Tomb
By James Tabor
The Re-Emergence of Source Criticism: The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis
By Joel S. Baden
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