More Christian Apocrypha Updates 12: Gospel Fragments
[This is the latest in a series of posts on texts to be featured in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Brent Landau and I. The material here is incorporated also into the...
View ArticleMore Christian Apocrypha Updates 13: Life of John the Baptist by Serapion
[This is the latest in a series of posts on texts to be featured in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Brent Landau and I. The material here is incorporated also into the...
View ArticleMore Christian Apocrypha Updates 14: Acts of Timothy
[This is the latest in a series of posts on texts to be featured in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Brent Landau and I. The material here is incorporated also into the...
View ArticleNew Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week Five
Our first of two classes on Passion and resurrection gospels began and ended with the Gospel of Mary. We read the conclusion to Gos. Mary as a group and I had the class consider who the Mary of the...
View ArticleCall for Papers: CSBS/CSPS Christian Apocrypha Session 2015
For the past three years I have been organizing a session of Christian Apocrypha at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. Last year we began a partnership with the Canadian...
View ArticleSimon Gathercole on the Differences Between Canonical and Noncanonical Gospels
Steve Walton, administrator of the Acts and More blog, provides a summary of Simon Gathercole’s plenary paper from the British New Testament Conference (Sept. 4-6, 2014): “Jesus, the Apostolic Gospel...
View ArticleNew Books on Fallen Angels Traditions
Kelley Coblentz Bautch passed along to me some information about two recent books on Fallen Angels traditions that may be of interest to readers of Christian Apocrypha: Available only since September,...
View ArticleConference Program for “Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalypses”
The “Ancient Jewish and Christian Apocalypses: Transfer of Knowledge and Genre Definition” conference takes place at Freie Universtät in Berlin November 14-15, 2014. Presenters include Martha...
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New Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week Seven
After a week off from lecturing (last week our class time was devoted to a research skills workshop), my New testament Apocrypha class resumed with part two of our look at Passion and Resurrection...
View ArticleNicola Denzey Lewis Talks Non-Canonical Gospels
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Visiting Associate Professor at Brown University, answers the question “How many gospels were “excluded” from the Bibles as we know them today? And why?” on the Bible Odyssey web...
View ArticleBook Review: Christopher W. Skinner, What Are They Saying about the Gospel of...
Back in the summer, Christopher Skinner sent me a copy of his book, What Are They Saying About the Gospel of Thomas? (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2012). It is a slim book (around 120 pages), so it did...
View ArticleNew Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week Eight
I began our first class on the apocryphal acts with a statement that the material typically does not excite students. Jesus appears very little in the texts and, let’s face it, the apocryphal acts are...
View Article“Lost Gospels” of the Nineteen Century
On Monday (November 10) I will be giving a talk at York University on so-called Modern Apocrypha. The presentation is based on a paper I will be presenting as part of the 2015 York Christian Apocrypha...
View ArticleNew Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week Nine
The class began this week on a bit of a tangent. We discussed Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson’s controversial book The Lost Gospel, which had been mentioned in the news since the previous morning....
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Translating Joseph and Aseneth: My Role in Jacobovici and Wilson’s “Lost Gospel”
Last Monday morning a story appeared in the press, first in England but very soon all around the world, about a “lost gospel” that contains evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had two...
View ArticleChristian Apocrypha at the 2014 SBL
Here is a quick rundown of the sessions and papers at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature focusing on Christian Apocrypha. I hope I found them all. See you in San Diego....
View ArticleNew Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week 10
This week marked our final look at Christian-authored apocrypha; our final class, in two weeks, focuses on anti-Christian apocrypha (the Toledot Yeshu and the Gospel of Barnabas) and modern...
View ArticleCall for Papers Extended: 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
Via Timothy Sailors: As part of the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, to be held from 24-28 August, 2015, at the University of Warsaw, Poland, a panel on ‘Early Christian Literature...
View Article2014 SBL Diary Day One: Writing Christian Apocrypha for Popular Audiences
I realize the internet and blogging is all about immediacy, but intermittent Wifi access at the SBL sites, my own desire to extend my trip to San Diego, and end-of-term teaching obligations has meant a...
View Article2014 SBL Diary Day Two: Planning for 2015
(With apologies for the protracted delay in posting. End-of-term marking and meetings are really cramping my style.) Day 2: November 23 The second day of the annual meeting was somewhat lighter for me...
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