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Jacobovici and Wilson’s Lost Gospel: Lengthy Review by Richard Bauckham
Well-known New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham recently completed his lengthy review of the latest “Jesus revisionism” book by Jacobovici and Wilson that I’ve blogged about previously. Bauckham published his review in seven online installments,...
New Jesus Revisionist Hokum Book Getting Trashed by Scholars
By now most readers will have heard about the new book by Simcha Jacobivici (not a typo) and his academic co-author Dr. Barrie Wilson. In short, it’s an embarrassment. And that’s saying something given what Simcha (whom I and others have affectionately...
The Talpiot Jesus Tomb
An emailer asked me about this today, and I was quite surprised that I had never posted this paper I wrote on the so-called Jesus tomb. I blogged about the tomb back in 2008, but I never posted this link (at least that I could find quickly). So, here it is .
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...
Was Jesus Married According to the Gnostic Texts from Nag Hammadi? (Videos 2, 3, and 4)
The format for these videos is the same as the first one, where I searched the Nag Hammadi Gnostic gospels for any occurrence of the word “marry” (including married, marries, marrying, etc.) connected to Jesus. In these videos I search for other terms:...
Was Jesus Married According to the Gnostic Texts from Nag Hammadi? (Video 1)
Most people who read The Da Vinci Code never bothered to actually read the Gnostic Gospels themselves to see what they say about Jesus being married. That was unfortunate, and is a textbook example of why you should always go right to the source material for your...
When Jesus Tomb Math Doesn’t Count
There’s one thing that practically everyone who has discussed the Jesus Tomb can all agree on: If you don’t have the name “Mariamne” (the alleged Mary Magdalene) in the tomb, the statistical odds have no chance of supporting a Jesus family...