Over at the Bible Places blog, Todd Bolen has posted a helpful list of online posts/essays on the new Coptic text that has Jesus addressing his wife. Have a look!
Gnosticism
The Humanity of Jesus: Could Jesus Have Been Married?
I'm sure by now readers have heard the recent announcement that Dr. Karen King of Harvard has announced (in Rome at a conference) that she is in possession of a small fragment of a Coptic manuscript that has Jesus addressing his wife (the line reads: ...Jesus said to...
Ancient Coptic Fragment Has Jesus Alluding to His Wife
The New York Times published this article today about Professor Karen King's apparent discovery of a fragment of an ancient text, likely composed a few centuries after the apostolic era, that in part reads, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …'” This would be the first...
James Tabor’s Essay on Early Christianity’s View of Resurrection: A Review
I have to this point confined my thoughts on the "Jesus Family Tomb" (Talpiot A) and the more recent adjacent tomb (Talpiot B) to my PaleoBabble blog, but my thoughts on James Tabor's recent blog post entitled, "Why People are Confused about the Earliest Christian...
Dan Brown and the Grail That Never Was
That's part of the title of this 2004 scholarly article that examines Brown's Jesus bloodline mythology. I don't believe I've posted it before (going through the archives this weekend). The author is apparently a medievalist. It's a succinct, readable dismantling of...
Secret Mark Meeting Reports
There was recently a conference on "Secret Mark". The Evangelical Textual Criticism blog has provided play-by-play reports here, here, and here. Professor Larry Hurtado has also added a few notes of his own in regard to some of what took place and was said at the...
Dr. Seuss Does Gnosticism
Give this brilliant Dr. Seuss-ized version of the Gnostic creation myth a read (it's also funny if you are familiar with Gnosticism). Mark Goodacre -- if you read this, this guy deserves an A for something!
Jesus and Mary Magdalene: Husband and Wife in the Gnostic Gospels?
I came across this video of a presentation I gave some years ago on this topic. I really should keep track of this stuff. Had a full beard then. The point of the presentation is to show that Gnostic gospels (the "real Bible" to conspiracists and Dan Brown fans) does...
New Gospel of Judas Fragments
You can read the short post on the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog here. I recommend clicking through to the links, especially to April DeConick's blog. April, as readers may recall, is strongly opposed (for very coherent reasons) to the notion that the Gospel of...
Jesus as “Ghost” and “Phantom”
Here's another article to file under contextualizing the Bible with respect to its literary conventions. If you're like me, you've heard Christian apologists say something like "the New Testament resurrection stories are like nothing in the ancient world," a statement...
Someone Else Promoting John Lamb Lash Gnostic Alien Archon Myth
Ah, wait a PaleoBabble feast this one is -- a missive from a gullible Dr. John Singh in what I'm guessing is a Canadain version of the Weekly World News. I wonder if Dr. Singh ever actually checked the Gnostic texts to see if John Lamb Lash's ideas are really there? ...
Even Scholars Do PaleoBabble
Readers may find April DeConick's series on how the Jesus Seminar is "bankrupt" of interest (her word). April, a professor at Rice University, is by no means a defender of traditional orthodoxy with respect to Christianity. She views the Gnostic material and theology...
Item of Interest on the Jesus Seminar
My thanks to my friend Mark Goodacre, NT professor at Duke, for blogging this. I get asked about the Jesus Seminary from time to time. Mark writes: Bruce Chilton offers reflection on the Jesus Seminar and the Jesus Project in an article over on Bible and...
Gnostic Archons = Aliens? Part 3 (of 3) on John Lamb Lash’s Theory
Here's the second video on Lash's theory. As you may recall, in the first video (Part 2 of this series), I searched for terms Lash uses (embryonic, reptilian, fetal, etc.) to claim that the Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi describe the "Greys" -- the little Grey aliens...
Gnostic Archons = Aliens? Part 2 on John Lamb Lash’s Theory
It's been a while since I started the John Lamb Lash "Gnostic Archons = Aliens" thread. With so much PaleoBabble out there, you can get sidetracked. At any rate, in my first post on this topic, I quoted John Lamb Lash's online article on this subject. Specifically,...