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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