Egerton Gospel, The Healing of the Leper (I. 35-47)

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Jesus and Early Christians’ Status as Cultural Elite

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The Halakhah of Gospel of Thomas

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Jesus the Translator: An Analysis of Luke 6:4:16–21

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Collective Memory and the Date of Jesus’ Death

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The Talmud and the Death of Jesus

If you would like to see this article with footnotes, click here. Introduction The debate around the historicity of the Talmud’s Jesus narratives is at the heart of the discussion of rabbinic attitudes towards the founder of Christianity. Countless narratives have tried to explain the meaning of these passages, with no consensus being reached. The

Does Jesus Follow His Own Teaching? Mark and Q: Jesus and the Poor

We have two early accounts of Jesus that formed the later Gospels of Luke, Matthew, and John. Those two sources are the Q document and the Gospel of Mark. The first is a hypothetical document, but a theory that explains the double tradition between Matthew and Luke, but missing in Mark. Mark certainly knows Jesus

The Development of Rabbinic Judaism: The Sixty Years that Made Judaism and Christianity

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Jesus and the Rabbis: The Kingdom of God

Follow me on Twitter or Facebook! If you support my work, consider joining on Patreon for exclusive content! Perhaps one of the phrases most associated with Jesus is the “Kingdom of God” (basileia tou theou). Jesus never seems to address God as King, even though some New Testament texts do (1 Timothy 1:17, 6:15; Rev. 15:3), except in the Gospel

Was Paul a Pharisee?

Follow me on Twitter or Facebook!  It is widely known that Paul claims to be a Pharisee (Philippians 3:5-6), as does the author of Luke-Acts (Acts 23:6), who takes the matter a step further, claiming that Paul studied under the famous rabbi, Gamaliel (Acts 22:3). Needless to say, but it is unlikely that Paul was a student of