Category: Jesus
Script for Amateur Exegesis – Season 2, Episode 9: “The Lord’s Day, A Thief’s Night”
Script for Amateur Exegesis – Season 2, Episode 9: “The Lord’s Day, A Thief’s Night”
Did Jesus Plan to Start a New Religion? Matthew Thiessen’s Answer
“Did Jesus plan to start a new religion, then? No.” – Matthew Thiessen
Helen Bond: The Markan Jesus’ Timelessness
Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020), 165.
Joel Marcus: Neither a Deity Masquerading as Human nor Divinized at the Transfiguration
Joel Marcus, Mark 8-16: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, The Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 1117-1118.
Book Review: ‘Jesus and the Forces of Death’ by Matthew Thiessen
A review of Matthew Thiessen’s 2020 volume ‘Jesus and the Forces of Death.’
Matthew Thiessen: The Jesus of the Gospels Argues on the Basis of Torah
Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020), 173.
Do the Matthean and Lukan Birth Narratives Contradict? One Attempt at Reconciliation (and Why It Misses the Point)
A theologian tries to reconcile a contradiction but can’t see the forest for the trees.
Matthew Thiessen: Jesus is Divinely Equipped to Deal with Ritual Impurity
Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020), 20.
Musings on Mark: Can the Markan Jesus Read?
A brief consideration of Spencer McDaniel’s view that the Jesus of Mark knew how to read.
