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• Some Questions about the James Ossuary
  Hypotyoseis: June 23, 2005
• Did Constantine Invent the Divinity of Jesus?
  Beliefnet: June 2005
• New Testament scholar compares the ‘Jesus of Hollywood’ to the historical one
  Stanford: June 1, 2005
• The Passion by Mel Gibson: Enthusiastic Response in the
  Catholic World, Restrained Criticism by the Jews
  Jewish Political Studies Review : Spring 2005
• The Resurrection
  ABC News: May 20, 2005
• Blindness or Insight? The Jewish Denial of Jesus Christ
  ICJS: located May 2005
• Why Jews Don't Accept Jesus
  Beliefnet: April 2005
• Articles on the James Ossuary
  Archaeology
• From Jesus to Christ
  MSNBC: March 28, 2005
• Holy Assertions! David Klinghoffer says Jews saved the world.
  NRO: March 24, 2005
• The Mystery of Antiquities: Ossuary owner charged with forgery
  ChristianityToday: February 2005
• Did 'The Passion' Fulfill Its Promise?
  They said the movie might convert millions, wreck
  Jewish-Christian relations, ruin Mel. Which predictions
  came true?
  Beliefnet: February 2005
• Why The Jews Did or Did Not Reject Jesus
  FirstThings: February 2005
• Fascinated with The Passion
  (ChristianityToday: June 2004)
• The Passion's Passionate Despisers
  (First Things: June/July 2004)
• “I DIDN’T SEE ANY ANTI-SEMITISM”
  (Crosscurrents: Spring 2004)
• PBS "Secrets of the Dead" Buries the Truth About Turin Shroud
  (CSICOP: April 2004)
• The Case of the Holy Fraudster
  (CSICOP: March 2004)
• Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ,” Anti-Semitism and the Gospel: Mark’s Trial Narrative as Political Parody
  (By Chad Myers: April 2004)
• Jesus and Paul
  (Beliefnet: April 2004)
• Jesus and Paul: Looking at a Journalistic Approach to Christianity's Beginnings
  (ChristianityToday: April 2004)
• Ancient Jewish man's remains give clues on crucifixion
  (Haaretz: April 5, 2004)
• The Horror & The Passion
  (National Review: April 9, 2004)
• The Religious Experience Of Jesus
  (Harvard Divinity Bulletin: Located 2004)
• Passions, Past And Present
  (New Yorker: March 1, 2004)
• The 'Passion' Gap: How Christians and Jews misunderstand each other.
  (Beliefnet: March 2004)
• Filming Jesus: Between Authority and Heresy
  (SBL: March 2004)
• History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion
  (SBL: March 2004)
• Rediscovering the Language Jesus Spoke
  (ChristianityToday: March 2004)
• The Protocols of Mel Gibson
  (Nation: March 11, 2004)
• The Passion of The Christ
  (JChristianityToday: March 2004)
• Mel Gibson uses a 'hidden script' based on visions of a German nun in making his film.
  (Beliefnet: February 2004)
• Background / Jesus of Palestine & the 'Passion' of Israel
  (Haaretz: February 25, 2004)
• Gibson’s Passion
  (First Things: March 2004)
• Why some Jews fear The Passion
  (ChristianityToday: February 20, 2004)
• Jews and 'The Passion': Are Watchdog Groups Going Overboard?  
  (Beliefnet: February 2004)
• Is The Passion of the Christ Good Because It's Accurate? Is It Accurate?
  (Christianity Today: February 9, 2004)
• A liberal professor and a conservative professor debate the movie, the Bible, theology and more.
  (Beliefnet: February 2004)
• Who Killed Jesus?
  (MSNBC: February 16, 2004)
• A Jewish View of Gibson's `Passion'
  (Beliefnet: February 2004)
• The once-admirable Gibson is staking his career on portraying Jews as demonic god-killers.
  (Beliefnet: February 2004)
• Responses to Jesus: The Jewish “no” and the Christian “yes”
  (Jewish-Christians Relations: Located January 2004)
• Book Review: The Resurrection of the Son of God
  (First Things: December 2003)
• Making a Film About Jesus Without Raising Hell
  (Forward: November 7, 2003)
• 'Who Was Jesus?': An Exchange.
  (NY Review of Books: November 6, 2003)
• Gibson’s movie about Jesus sparks internal Jewish debate
  (JTA: October 7, 2003)
• Bones of Contention: Why I still think the James bone box is likely to be authentic.
  (Christianity Today: September 23, 2003)
• 'You Can't Whitewash the Events of the Bible'
  (BeliefNet: September 2003)
• What Mel Missed: There's a reason why the gospels don't dwell on the blood and gore of the crucifixion.
  (BeliefNet: September 2003)
• Fantasy and myth in the death of Jesus
  (By George Aichele: Located September 2003)
• What Would Jesus Speak?
  (Forward: August 29, 2003)
• How Did Jesus Become God — and Why
  (By Lloyd Geering: Located August 2003)
• Gibson Says He Has `Softened' Crucifixion Story in New Jesus Movie
  (Beliefnet: August 2003)
• I don't know if the film is anti-Jewish. But the response to criticism of the movie smacks of anti-Semitism.
  (Beliefnet: August 2003)
• James Ossuary
  (ROM: July 2003)
• Why I Am Not Yet Convinced the Ossuary Inscription Is a Forgery
  (Beliefnet: June 2003)
• Antiquities team declares ossuary a forgery
  (Haaretz: June 19, 2003)
• Report: Jehoash tablet is a fake
  (Haaretz: June 10, 2003)
• The Ascension of Jesus
  (Beliefnet: June 1, 2003)
• Was Jesus Married?
  (Beliefnet: June 2003)
• Are the Passion and Easter Stories Really Anti-Semitic?
  (Beliefnet: April 2003)
• An interview with N. T. Wright, author of The Resurrection of the Son of God.
  (Christianity Today; April 2003)
• The Ossuary Find
  (Beliefnet: April 2003)
• Bethany Beyond The Jordan
  (ASOR: March 2003)
• The Top Ten Exegetical Discoveries for Excavating Jesus
  (BeliefNet: January 2003)
• Beliefs about Jesus' virgin mother vary between Christians of the early church, Roman Catholics, and modern-day Protestants
  (Christianity Today: December 2002)
• The Gospels As Historical Sources For Jesus,The Founder Of Christianity
  (R. T. France: Located November 2002)
• The discovery of James' bone box could shed light on Jesus' family
  (Beliefnet: October 27, 2002)
• 'The Most Important Extrabiblical Evidence of Its Kind'
  (Beliefnet: October 27, 2002)
• Jesus' Siblings: A Bone of Contention for Catholics
  (Beliefnet: October 27, 2002)
• Stunning New Evidence that Jesus Lived
  (Christianity Today: October 21, 2002)
• The Jesus Scandal
  (Christianity Today: February 4, 2002)
• Did Christ Invent Christianity?
  (BeliefNet: Located February, 2002)
• Finding the Historical Jesus: An Interview with John Meier
  (American Catholic: Located February, 2002)
• The Present State of the "Third Quest" for the Historical Jesus: Loss and Gain
  (John Meier: Located February, 2002)
• Who He Was
  (The New Republic: October 22, 2001)
• Jesus as a Person of Colour?
  (Mark Goodacre: Located May, 2001)
• The Easter Moment, Part IV: Drawing Conclusions
  (BeliefNet: April 24, 2001)
• Jerusalem At the Time of Jesus
  (Time: April 2001)
• The Jesus of the Cults
  (Cesnur: March 8, 2001)
• The Easter Moment: Part I
  (BeliefNet: Located March, 2001)
• CT Classic: Who Killed Jesus?
  (Christianity Today: March 1, 2001)
• The Trial and Death of Jesus
  (Jewish Christian Relations: Located February, 2001)
• Jesus the Jew
  (Jewish Christian Relations: Located February, 2001)
• A Radically Different Jesus: While scholars debate whether the text represents Jesus’ true teachings, the Gospel of Thomas is hitting Amazon's radar screens.
  (BeliefNet: February, 2001)
• For Jesus, Appearances Count
  (BeliefNet: January, 2001)
• Whose Child Is This? The early church's opponents claimed Jesus was illegitimate
  (Christianity Today, December 22, 2000)
• From Jesus to Christ: the first Christians
  (PBS Frontline: Located December, 2000)
• Stigmata: In Imitation of Christ
  (Skeptical Inquirer: July, 2000)