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• An Interview with E. P. Sanders: “Paul, Context, & Interpretation”
  Philosophy and Scripture: Located August 2005
• Resurrecting Mary Magdalene
  NCR: July 15, 2005
• Paul and Qumran
  N.T.Wright page: July 7, 2005
• Mark's secret gospel
  Macleans: May 12, 2005
• Sinai monks in historic agreement with British Library
  Art Newspaper: April 14, 2005
• Welcome to Doomsday: If you care about the fate of
  the planet, start worrying about fundamentalists eagerly
  awaiting the end of the world.
  Beliefnet: March 2005
• What About Judas?
  PBS: March 18, 2005
• How Paul De-Judaized Jesus
  Jerusalem Report: February 20, 2005
• Apocalypse Now; Why the Book of Revelations is Must Reading
  (OpEdNews: July 2004)
• Renowned Bible scholar N.T. Wright talks about what human bodies will be like when they rise
  (Beliefnet: July 2004)
• You Were What You Wore in Roman Law: Deciphering the Dress Codes of 1 Timothy 2:9-15
  (SBL: June 2004)
• 'Gnostic' Texts vs. the New Testament
  (Beliefnet: May 2004)
• Why the 'Lost Gospels' Lost Out
  (ChristianityToday: May 2004)
• Did Paul Distort Christianity?'
  (Beliefnet: April 2004)
• Are the Gospel Passion Accounts Anti-Jewish?
  (JRS: vol. 6 2004)
• Paul's Unconventional Wisdom
  (Beliefnet: March 2004)
• Gospel of John aims to discredit evangel Thomas, scholar says
  (Stanford: February 4, 2004)
• Opposition as Index of Importance: The Case of Mary Magdalene
  (SBL: January 2004)
• Mary of Magdala in Early Christian Coptic Literature
  (SBL: January 2004)
• Mary Magdalene in Recent Literature
  (SBL: January 2004)
• Mary of Magdala: Christian Polemics and Demonic Influence
  (SBL: January 2004)
• Paul is too Jewish for some, too anti-Jewish for others (Jewish-Christians Relations: Located January 2004)
• Beneath the surface of our highly rational society lies a vibrant spiritual devotion to Mary, the Mother of God (Beliefnet: January 2004)
• The Bible’s Lost Stories
  (MSNBC: December 8, 2003)
• Revisionist Jesus scholar Marcus Borg explains why "Christianity makes persuasive and compelling sense." (Beliefnet: November 2003)
• Paul's Gospel and Caesar's Empire
  (Center for Theological Inquiry: Located October 2003)
• Must We Believe the Virgin Birth?
  (Crosswalk: August 21, 2003)
• What would Christianity be like if gnostic texts had made it into the Bible?
  (Beliefnet: July 2003)
• Dating the Oldest New Testament Manuscripts
  (Jewish-Christians Relations: Located June 2003)
• From Jewish Movement to Gentile Church
  (By Peter van Minnen: Located July 2003)
• The Gospel of Mark and Judaism
  (Jewish-Christian Relations: Located 2002)
• Paul's Contradictions – Can They Be Resolved?
  (Jewish-Christian Relations: Located November 2002)
• The Synoptic Problem
  (By Mark Goodacre: Located February, 2002)
• The Problem Of Miracles: A Historical And Philosophical Perspective
  (Leadership U: Located November, 2001)
• Raising the Bar: A daring proposal for the future of evangelical New Testament scholarship.
  (Christianity Today: October 26, 2001)
• Matthew's Gospel and Judaism
  (Jewish-Christian Relations: Located September, 2001)
• Transformations in Telling the Passion Story Or: "His blood be on us and on our children"
  (Jewish-Christian Relations: Located March 2001)
• Explaining the Word: Guidelines for Christian Clergy and Teachers in their use of the New Testament with reference to the New Testament's presentation of Jews and Judaism (Jewish-Christian Relations: Located March 2001)
• Sola Scriptura
  (Jewish-Christian Relations: Located March, 2001)
• Church of the Apostles Found on Mt. Zion
  (CenturyOne Foundation: Located March, 2001)
• No church conspiracy against Mary Magdalene
  (National Catholic Reporter: February, 2001)
• Apocalypticism Explained
  (Frontline: Located January, 2001)
• Literalism and the Last Days: The book of Revelation must be read as metaphor, not literally
  (BeliefNet: January, 2001)
• The Other Birth Story: Revelation's 'Child and the Dragon' (BeliefNet: January, 2001)
• Christian History Corner: Why December 25?
  (Christianity Today: December, 2000)
• Misconceptions About the Virginal Conception
  (BeliefNet: December, 2000)
• The Shortcomings of History Certain truths can only be captured in mythical terms
  (BeliefNet: December, 2000)
• What Are the Gospels? The Evangelists were biographers, as understood by the ancients.
  (BeliefNet: Summer, 2000)
• Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: The Second Coming of Jesus (Skeptical Inquirer: January/February, 2000)