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Christian Apocrypha and Pilgrimage, Part 3
In the first post in this series I discussed the visits of pilgrims to locations mentioned only in apocryphal texts, in the second I provided an overview of the texts that expand on the Flight to Egypt...
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Christian Apocrypha Books to Look for at SBL 2017
One of the highlights of the SBL Annual Meeting is the publishers exhibition. As you make your way from one booth to another, keep an eye out for these new books. Baylor Dirk Rohmann. Christianity,...
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2017 SBL Diary: Day One
Every year after the SBL Annual Meeting I take some time to compile a summary of my activities—the sessions I attended and/or participated in, meetings I had with scholars and publishers, books I...
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2017 SBL Diary: Day Two
My second day at the 2017 SBL began with my first Journal of Biblical Literature Editorial Board meeting. I was surprised to see so many people around the table (and so many people that I know). The...
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Guest Post: David Brakke “The abundant, never-ending Christian apocrypha,...
David Brakke appeared on the 2017 SBL review panel for New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. I really enjoyed his paper and asked him to allow me to publish it here. Since many have...
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2017 SBL Diary: Day Three
The third and (for me) final day of the annual meeting began with a breakfast with the NASSCAL executive. The annual meeting presents an opportunity for the executive to meet informally, with a loose...
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2018 Conference for the North American Society for the Study of Christian...
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature The Material of Christian Apocrypha University of Virginia November 2018 Confirmed...
View ArticleUpdate on More New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2
The first volume of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (co-edited with Brent Landau) was published just over a year ago. Even before the book went to press, we were planning the...
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New Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week Two
Last week I began the latest incarnation of my course “The New Testament Apocrypha” (syllabus posted on my parent site HERE). As in previous years, I am posting weekly reflections on each week’s...
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Book Note: What Did Jesus Look Like?
Christian Apocrypha enthusiasts, particularly those interested in the Pilate Cycle, the Epistle of Lentulus, and/or the Doctrine of Addai, may want to seek out Joan E. Taylor’s new book What Did Jesus...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week Three
This week’s class focused on Infancy Gospels, with particular emphasis on the Infancy Gospel of James and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the earliest examples of this literature. We began, however, with...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week 4
My course on the New Testament Apocrypha focused this week on part one of a two-part discussion of “Ministry Gospels”—i.e., texts focusing on Jesus’ adult life, between the infancy gospels and the...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Reflections on Week 5
The second of our classes focusing on the ministry of Jesus (that is, the time between his childhood and his Passion) included two letters, two fragmentary texts, and two complete gospels. We began by...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Week 6
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...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Week 7
Our second week looking at resurrection texts focused on apocalypses. We began with a short reading from the beginning of the Apocalypse of Paul with its claim to have been found, along with a dusty...
View ArticleChristian Apocrypha Sessions for the 2018 SBL Annual Meeting
The 2018 SBL Annual Meeting will have four sessions from the Christian Apocrypha Section. Dates, times, and locations will be announced later. Session 1 (in conjunction with the Religious Competition...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Week 8
Classes at York University are mostly suspended as a result of a rather lengthy strike of our sessional, contract, and graduate student instructors. In order for my students to finish up the course, I...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Week 9
This week marked our final look at ancient Christian-authored apocrypha; our final class, in two weeks, focuses on anti-Christian apocrypha (the Toledot Yeshu and the Gospel of Barnabas) and, newly...
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2018 New Testament Apocrypha Course: Week 10
My New Testament Apocrypha course finished up last week with a class focusing on two aims: a look at anti-gospels (i.e., texts written by non-Christians for non-Christians to either lampoon or...
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The Gnostic Pinocchio
One of my tasks this summer was to complete a paper begun many years ago (I first presented it at the SBL Annual Meeting in 2003!). As I often do, I committed myself to finish the paper by agreeing to...
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