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Dale Allison

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Dale C. Allison (November 25, 1955-)[1] is an American New Testament scholar, historian of Early Christianity, and Christian theologian who currently serves as Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.[2] He has recently been appointed the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Career
2 Publications 2.1 Books
2.2 Selected Articles
3 References

Career[edit]
Allison received a B.A. from Wichita State University (1977), an M.A. (1979) and a Ph.D. (1982) from Duke University.[1] Prior to joining Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1997, Allison served on the faculties of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas and Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.[1] He is the author of books on early Christian eschatology, the Gospel of Matthew, the so-called Sayings Source of the Q document, the historical Jesus, and the Testament of Abraham. He has been called "the premier Matthew specialist of his generation in the United States" and "North America's most complete New Testament scholar."[1] Allison also serves on the editorial boards of New Testament Studies and the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.[3]
He is a prominent defender of the view of the historical Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet expecting the imminent end of the age, and the "thoroughgoing eschatology" of Albert Schweitzer. This is laid out in his book Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet. This went against the views of the Jesus Seminar, particularly the views of scholars like John Dominic Crossan, whose reconstruction of Jesus was largely free of apocalyptic elements.
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
Allison, Dale (2010). Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0-8010-3585-2.
Allison, Dale (2009). The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-8028-6262-4.
Allison, Dale (2006). The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison. T. & T. Clark International. ISBN 0-8264-2756-1.
Allison, Dale (2006). The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places. Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3218-0.
Allison, Dale; Amy-Jill Levine; John Dominic Crossan (2006). The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton. ISBN 0-691-00992-9.
Allison, Dale (2005). Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present. Baker Academic. ISBN 0-8010-2791-8.
Allison, Dale (2005). Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters. T. & T. Clark International. ISBN 0-567-02900-X.
Allison, Dale (2005). Matthew: A Shorter Commentary. T. & T. Clark International. ISBN 0-567-08249-0.
Allison, Dale (2003). The Testament of Abraham, Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature. de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017888-5.
Allison, Dale (2000). The Intertextual Jesus: Scripture in Q. Trinity Press Intl. ISBN 1-56338-329-2.
Allison, Dale (2000). Scriptural Allusions in the New Testament: Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls (The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins Library 5). BIBAL Press.
Allison, Dale (1999). The Sermon on the Mount: Inspiring the Moral Imagination (Crossroad Companions to the New Testament). Crossroad. ISBN 0-8245-1791-1.
Allison, Dale (1998). Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet. Fortress. ISBN 0-8006-3144-7.
Allison, Dale (1997). The Jesus Tradition in Q. Trinity Press International. ISBN 1-56338-207-5.
Davies, W. D.; Dale Allison (1997). An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew (Vol. 3, chapters 19-28) (International Critical Commentary). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-567-08375-6.
Allison, Dale (1995). The Silence of Angels. Trinity Press International. ISBN 1-56338-131-1.
Allison, Dale (1993). The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Fortress and T & T. Clark. ISBN 0-8006-2699-0.
Davies, W. D.; Dale Allison (1991). An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew (Vol. 2, chapters 8-18) (International Critical Commentary). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-567-08365-9.
Davies, W. D.; Dale Allison (1988). An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew (Vol. l, chapters 1-7) (International Critical Commentary). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-567-08355-1.
Allison, Dale (1985). The End of the Ages Has Come: An Early Interpretation of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. Fortress. ISBN 0-8006-0753-8.
Selected Articles[edit]
"The Secularizing of the Historical Jesus." Perspectives on Religious Studies 27, 2 (Summer 2000): 135-151.
"Rejecting Violent Judgment: Luke 9:52-56 and its Relatives." Journal of Biblical Literature 121, 3 (Fall 2002): 459-478.
"Resurrecting a Calf: The Origin of Testament of Abraham 6:5." Journal of Theological Studies 55, 1 (April 2004): 103-116.
"The Resurrection of Jesus and Rational Apologetics." Philosophia Christi 10, 2 (2008): 315-335.
"What I Have Learned from the History of Interpretation." Perspectives in Religious Studies 35, 3 (Fall 2008): 237-250.
"Matthew and the History of its Interpretation." Expository Times 120, 1 (October 2008): 1-7.
"Blessing God and Cursing People: James 3:9-10." Journal of Biblical Literature 130, 2 (Summer 2011): 397-405.
"A Liturgical Tradition Behind the Ending of James." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 34, 1 (September 2011): 3-18.
"Eldad and Modad." Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21, 2 (December 2011): 99-131.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Dale C. Allison, Jr.". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Sweeney, James P. (2006). "Matthew: A Shorter Commentary: Based on the Three-Volume International Critical Commentary". Review of Biblical Literature 8: 404.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "World-Class New Testament Scholar Joins Princeton Theological Seminary Faculty". Princeton, NJ: Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 18 June 2013.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


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Dale Allison

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Dale C. Allison (November 25, 1955-)[1] is an American New Testament scholar, historian of Early Christianity, and Christian theologian who currently serves as Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.[2] He has recently been appointed the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Career
2 Publications 2.1 Books
2.2 Selected Articles
3 References

Career[edit]
Allison received a B.A. from Wichita State University (1977), an M.A. (1979) and a Ph.D. (1982) from Duke University.[1] Prior to joining Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1997, Allison served on the faculties of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas and Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.[1] He is the author of books on early Christian eschatology, the Gospel of Matthew, the so-called Sayings Source of the Q document, the historical Jesus, and the Testament of Abraham. He has been called "the premier Matthew specialist of his generation in the United States" and "North America's most complete New Testament scholar."[1] Allison also serves on the editorial boards of New Testament Studies and the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.[3]
He is a prominent defender of the view of the historical Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet expecting the imminent end of the age, and the "thoroughgoing eschatology" of Albert Schweitzer. This is laid out in his book Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet. This went against the views of the Jesus Seminar, particularly the views of scholars like John Dominic Crossan, whose reconstruction of Jesus was largely free of apocalyptic elements.
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
Allison, Dale (2010). Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0-8010-3585-2.
Allison, Dale (2009). The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-8028-6262-4.
Allison, Dale (2006). The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison. T. & T. Clark International. ISBN 0-8264-2756-1.
Allison, Dale (2006). The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places. Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3218-0.
Allison, Dale; Amy-Jill Levine; John Dominic Crossan (2006). The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton. ISBN 0-691-00992-9.
Allison, Dale (2005). Studies in Matthew: Interpretation Past and Present. Baker Academic. ISBN 0-8010-2791-8.
Allison, Dale (2005). Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters. T. & T. Clark International. ISBN 0-567-02900-X.
Allison, Dale (2005). Matthew: A Shorter Commentary. T. & T. Clark International. ISBN 0-567-08249-0.
Allison, Dale (2003). The Testament of Abraham, Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature. de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017888-5.
Allison, Dale (2000). The Intertextual Jesus: Scripture in Q. Trinity Press Intl. ISBN 1-56338-329-2.
Allison, Dale (2000). Scriptural Allusions in the New Testament: Light from the Dead Sea Scrolls (The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins Library 5). BIBAL Press.
Allison, Dale (1999). The Sermon on the Mount: Inspiring the Moral Imagination (Crossroad Companions to the New Testament). Crossroad. ISBN 0-8245-1791-1.
Allison, Dale (1998). Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet. Fortress. ISBN 0-8006-3144-7.
Allison, Dale (1997). The Jesus Tradition in Q. Trinity Press International. ISBN 1-56338-207-5.
Davies, W. D.; Dale Allison (1997). An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew (Vol. 3, chapters 19-28) (International Critical Commentary). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-567-08375-6.
Allison, Dale (1995). The Silence of Angels. Trinity Press International. ISBN 1-56338-131-1.
Allison, Dale (1993). The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Fortress and T & T. Clark. ISBN 0-8006-2699-0.
Davies, W. D.; Dale Allison (1991). An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew (Vol. 2, chapters 8-18) (International Critical Commentary). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-567-08365-9.
Davies, W. D.; Dale Allison (1988). An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew (Vol. l, chapters 1-7) (International Critical Commentary). T. & T. Clark. ISBN 0-567-08355-1.
Allison, Dale (1985). The End of the Ages Has Come: An Early Interpretation of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus. Fortress. ISBN 0-8006-0753-8.
Selected Articles[edit]
"The Secularizing of the Historical Jesus." Perspectives on Religious Studies 27, 2 (Summer 2000): 135-151.
"Rejecting Violent Judgment: Luke 9:52-56 and its Relatives." Journal of Biblical Literature 121, 3 (Fall 2002): 459-478.
"Resurrecting a Calf: The Origin of Testament of Abraham 6:5." Journal of Theological Studies 55, 1 (April 2004): 103-116.
"The Resurrection of Jesus and Rational Apologetics." Philosophia Christi 10, 2 (2008): 315-335.
"What I Have Learned from the History of Interpretation." Perspectives in Religious Studies 35, 3 (Fall 2008): 237-250.
"Matthew and the History of its Interpretation." Expository Times 120, 1 (October 2008): 1-7.
"Blessing God and Cursing People: James 3:9-10." Journal of Biblical Literature 130, 2 (Summer 2011): 397-405.
"A Liturgical Tradition Behind the Ending of James." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 34, 1 (September 2011): 3-18.
"Eldad and Modad." Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21, 2 (December 2011): 99-131.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Dale C. Allison, Jr.". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
2.Jump up ^ Sweeney, James P. (2006). "Matthew: A Shorter Commentary: Based on the Three-Volume International Critical Commentary". Review of Biblical Literature 8: 404.
3.^ Jump up to: a b "World-Class New Testament Scholar Joins Princeton Theological Seminary Faculty". Princeton, NJ: Princeton Theological Seminary. Retrieved 18 June 2013.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  


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Paula Fredriksen

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Paula F. Fredriksen (born January 6, 1951, Kingston, Rhode Island)[1] is an American historian and a scholar of religious studies. She held the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University through 2010 and is now the William Goodwin Aurelio Chair Emerita of the Appreciation of Scripture.[2] She served as historical consultant for the BBC production The Lives of Jesus (1996) and for U.S. News and World Report 's "The Life and Times of Jesus" and was featured speaker in the Frontline documentary From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1998).


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography 1.1 Education
1.2 Career
2 Personal life
3 Books
4 External links
5 References

Biography[edit]
Education[edit]
She earned a Ph.D in the history of religion from Princeton University and diploma in theology from Oxford University.
Career[edit]
Fredriksen is a scholar of the historical Jesus. While some historians interpret the historical Jesus as a nonapocalyptic ethical teacher, she sides with those who portray him as an apocalyptic preacher in the tradition of prophets before him and apostles after him.[3]
In addition to the historical Jesus, Fredriksen is also interested in the social history of Christianity from its beginnings to the Fall of the Roman Empire. She has published two books on St. Augustine, both focused on his attitudes towards Jews and Judaism. In contrast to other historians of Christian anti-Semitism, she regards Augustine as having a more enlightened, indeed revolutionary, attitude towards Jews and Judaism than many of his other Christian contemporaries.[4]
One of the editors of her book From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus was the New Testament scholar E.P. Sanders. Along with Geza Vermes, she is often regarded as among the most influential scholars interested in replacing Jesus within a Jewish context.
She has held that much of the scholarship regarding Jesus from the 19th and 20th centuries has an anti-Judaic (and/or anti-Semitic) bias,[5] a theme explored in her book Jesus, Judaism, and Christian anti-Judaism: reading the New Testament after the Holocaust. Her book From Jesus to Christ, (Yale University Press, 1988) received its publisher's Governors' Award. Her book Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity (Knopf 1999) won a National Jewish Book Award.[6]
She was an outspoken critic of the film The Passion of the Christ, and edited a full-length book anthology of essays critiquing the film.[7][8]
In 2013 Paula Fredriksen was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS).[9]
Personal life[edit]
Fredriksen is married to Alfred I. Tauber, professor of philosophy emeritua and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine emeritus at Boston University.
Books[edit]
Augustine on Romans, Chico: Scholars Press, 1982.
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (Yale Nota Bene), Yale University Press, 1988 (2nd edition, 2000).
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, Vintage Press, 2000.
Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust, Adele Reinhartz, Westminster John Knox Press; 2002.
On The Passion of the Christ: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie, University of California Press, 2006.
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism, Doubleday Religion, 2008.
Sin: The Early History of an Idea, Princeton University Press, 2012
External links[edit]
Academic biography at Boston University that includes her complete CV.
Introduction to Fredriksen's book From Jesus to Christ.
Your Questions to Paula Fredriksen from Beliefnet.com.
Jesus, Paul and the Origins of Christianity, video lecture at Princeton University
Paul, Pagans and the Redemption of Israel video of lecture at University of Minnesota
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
2.Jump up ^ [1]
3.Jump up ^ Introduction to Fredriksen's book From Jesus to Christ.
4.Jump up ^ Time Magazine coverage of Dr. Fredriksen
5.Jump up ^ [2]
6.Jump up ^ Paula Fredrikson, Faculty biography
7.Jump up ^ Fredrikson, Paula, "Controversial 'Passion' presents priceless opportunity for education - A toxic film delivers a dangerous, but teachable, moment", Chrtistian Science Monitor, Feb 2, 2004.
8.Jump up ^ Paula Fredriksen, On ‘The Passion of the Christ’: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie, University of California Press, February 1, 2006.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/classlist2013.pdf


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Paula Fredriksen

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Paula F. Fredriksen (born January 6, 1951, Kingston, Rhode Island)[1] is an American historian and a scholar of religious studies. She held the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University through 2010 and is now the William Goodwin Aurelio Chair Emerita of the Appreciation of Scripture.[2] She served as historical consultant for the BBC production The Lives of Jesus (1996) and for U.S. News and World Report 's "The Life and Times of Jesus" and was featured speaker in the Frontline documentary From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (1998).


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography 1.1 Education
1.2 Career
2 Personal life
3 Books
4 External links
5 References

Biography[edit]
Education[edit]
She earned a Ph.D in the history of religion from Princeton University and diploma in theology from Oxford University.
Career[edit]
Fredriksen is a scholar of the historical Jesus. While some historians interpret the historical Jesus as a nonapocalyptic ethical teacher, she sides with those who portray him as an apocalyptic preacher in the tradition of prophets before him and apostles after him.[3]
In addition to the historical Jesus, Fredriksen is also interested in the social history of Christianity from its beginnings to the Fall of the Roman Empire. She has published two books on St. Augustine, both focused on his attitudes towards Jews and Judaism. In contrast to other historians of Christian anti-Semitism, she regards Augustine as having a more enlightened, indeed revolutionary, attitude towards Jews and Judaism than many of his other Christian contemporaries.[4]
One of the editors of her book From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus was the New Testament scholar E.P. Sanders. Along with Geza Vermes, she is often regarded as among the most influential scholars interested in replacing Jesus within a Jewish context.
She has held that much of the scholarship regarding Jesus from the 19th and 20th centuries has an anti-Judaic (and/or anti-Semitic) bias,[5] a theme explored in her book Jesus, Judaism, and Christian anti-Judaism: reading the New Testament after the Holocaust. Her book From Jesus to Christ, (Yale University Press, 1988) received its publisher's Governors' Award. Her book Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity (Knopf 1999) won a National Jewish Book Award.[6]
She was an outspoken critic of the film The Passion of the Christ, and edited a full-length book anthology of essays critiquing the film.[7][8]
In 2013 Paula Fredriksen was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS).[9]
Personal life[edit]
Fredriksen is married to Alfred I. Tauber, professor of philosophy emeritua and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine emeritus at Boston University.
Books[edit]
Augustine on Romans, Chico: Scholars Press, 1982.
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus (Yale Nota Bene), Yale University Press, 1988 (2nd edition, 2000).
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity, Vintage Press, 2000.
Jesus, Judaism, and Christian Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust, Adele Reinhartz, Westminster John Knox Press; 2002.
On The Passion of the Christ: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie, University of California Press, 2006.
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism, Doubleday Religion, 2008.
Sin: The Early History of an Idea, Princeton University Press, 2012
External links[edit]
Academic biography at Boston University that includes her complete CV.
Introduction to Fredriksen's book From Jesus to Christ.
Your Questions to Paula Fredriksen from Beliefnet.com.
Jesus, Paul and the Origins of Christianity, video lecture at Princeton University
Paul, Pagans and the Redemption of Israel video of lecture at University of Minnesota
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
2.Jump up ^ [1]
3.Jump up ^ Introduction to Fredriksen's book From Jesus to Christ.
4.Jump up ^ Time Magazine coverage of Dr. Fredriksen
5.Jump up ^ [2]
6.Jump up ^ Paula Fredrikson, Faculty biography
7.Jump up ^ Fredrikson, Paula, "Controversial 'Passion' presents priceless opportunity for education - A toxic film delivers a dangerous, but teachable, moment", Chrtistian Science Monitor, Feb 2, 2004.
8.Jump up ^ Paula Fredriksen, On ‘The Passion of the Christ’: Exploring the Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie, University of California Press, February 1, 2006.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/classlist2013.pdf


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Géza Vermes

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The native form of this personal name is Vermes Géza. This article uses the Western name order.
Géza Vermes (Hungarian: [ˈɡeːzɒ ˈvɛrmɛʃ], 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin—one who also served as a Catholic priest in his youth—and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He was a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient works in Aramaic such as the Targums, and on the life and religion of Jesus. He was one of the most important voices in contemporary Jesus research,[1] and he has been described as the greatest Jesus scholar of his time.[2] Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on Jesus the Jew, as seen in the broader context of the narrative scope of Jewish history and theology, while questioning the basis of some Christian teachings on Jesus.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography
2 Academic career
3 Historical Jesus
4 Selected publications
5 References
6 External links

Biography[edit]
Vermes was born in Makó, Hungary, in 1924 to parents of Jewish descent, schoolteacher Terézia (Riesz) and liberal journalist Ernő Vermes,[4][5] (His family, however, had not practised Judaism since the early 19th century.[4]) All three were baptised as Roman Catholics when he was seven. His mother and father died in the Holocaust.
Vermes attended a Catholic seminary. When he was eligible for college, in 1942, Jews were not accepted into Hungarian universities.[6]
After the Second World War, he became a Roman Catholic priest, but was not admitted into the Jesuit or Dominican orders because of his Jewish ancestry. Vermes was accepted into the Order of the Fathers of Notre-Dame de Sion,[4] a French/Belgian order founded by Jewish converts[7] which prayed for Jews.[8]
He studied first in Budapest and then at the College St Albert and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he read Oriental history and languages. In 1953 obtained a doctorate in theology with the first dissertation written on the Dead Sea Scrolls and its historical framework.[4]
After researching the scrolls in Paris for several years,[4] on a visit to Britain he met the scholar and poet Pamela Hobson Curle; though she was married,[9] the two fell in love in 1955. Vermes left the Catholic Church in 1957 and reasserted his Jewish identity; however, he "insisted he had not converted, just "grew out of" Christianity."[7] Relocating to Britain, he and Curle married in 1958. He took up a teaching post at what is now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.[4] In 1965 he joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, rising to become the first professor of Jewish Studies before his retirement in 1991. In 1970 he became a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London.[10] After the death of his first wife in 1993, he married Margaret Unarska in 1996 and adopted her son, Ian.
Vermes died on 8 May 2013 after a recurrence of cancer.[11]
Academic career[edit]
Vermes was one of the first scholars to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls after their discovery in 1947, and is the author of the standard translation into English of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Dead Sea Scrolls in English (1962)[12] He is one of the leading scholars in the field of the study of the historical Jesus (see Selected Publications, below) and together with Fergus Millar and Martin Goodman, Vermes was responsible for substantially revising Emil Schurer's three-volume work, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ,[13] His An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, revised edition (2000), is a study of the collection at Qumran.[14]
Until his death, he was a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, but continued to teach at the Oriental Institute in Oxford. He had edited the Journal of Jewish Studies[15] from 1971 to his death, and from 1991 he had been director of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies[16] He inspired the creation of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) in 1975 and of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) in 1981 and acted as founding president for both.
Vermes was a Fellow of the British Academy; a Fellow of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities; holder of an Oxford D. Litt. (1988) and of honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh (1989), University of Durham (1990), University of Sheffield (1994) and the Central European University of Budapest (2008). He was awarded the Wilhelm Bacher Memorial Medal by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1996), the Memorial Medal of the city of Makó, his place of birth (2008) and the keys of the cities of Monroe LA and Natchez MI (2009). He received a vote of congratulation from the US House of Representatives, proposed by the Representative of Louisiana on 17 September 2009.
In the course of a lecture tour in the United States in September 2009, Vermes spoke at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, at Duke University in Durham NC, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD, and at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and at Baton Rouge.
On 23 January 2012 Penguin Books celebrated at Wolfson College, Oxford, the golden jubilee of Vermes's The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, which has sold an estimated half-a-million copies worldwide. A "Fiftieth anniversary" edition has been issued in the Penguin Classics series.
Historical Jesus[edit]
Main article: Historical Jesus
Vermes was a prominent scholar in the contemporary field of historical Jesus research.[17] The contemporary approach, known as the "third quest," emphasizes Jesus' Jewish identity and context.[17] It portrays Jesus as founding a renewal movement within Judaism.[17]
Vermes described Jesus as a 1st-century Jewish holy man, a commonplace view in academia but novel to the public when Vermes began publishing.[4] Contrary to certain other scholars (such as E. P. Sanders[18]), Vermes concludes that Jesus did not reach out to non-Jews. For example, he attributes positive references to Samaritans in the gospels not to Jesus himself but to early Christian editing. He suggests that, properly understood, the historical Jesus is a figure that Jews should find familiar and attractive.[17] This historical Jesus, however, is so different from the Christ of faith that Christians, says Vermes, may well want to rethink the fundamentals of their faith.[17]
Important works on this topic include Jesus the Jew (1973), which describes Jesus as a thoroughly Jewish Galilean charismatic, and The Gospel of Jesus the Jew (1981), which examines Jewish parallels to Jesus' teaching.[14]
Vermes believed it is possible "to retrieve the authentic Gospel of Jesus, his first-hand message to his original followers."[19]
Selected publications[edit]
Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Haggadic studies (Studia post-biblica), Brill, Leiden 1961 ISBN 90-04-03626-1
Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1973 ISBN 0-8006-1443-7
Post-Biblical Jewish Studies, Brill, Leiden, 1975 ISBN 90-04-04160-5
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1977 ISBN 0-8006-1435-6
Jesus and the World of Judaism, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1983 ISBN 0-8006-1784-3
The Essenes According to the Classical Sources (with Martin Goodman), Sheffield Academic Press 1989 ISBN 1-85075-139-0
The Religion of Jesus the Jew, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1993 ISBN 0-8006-2797-0
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Penguin 1997 ISBN 978-0-14-044952-5 (2004 ed.) (Fiftieth anniversary ed. 2011 ISBN 978-0-141-19731-9)
The Changing Faces of Jesus, London, Penguin 2001 ISBN 0-14-026524-4
Jesus in his Jewish Context, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 2003 ISBN 0-8006-3623-6
The Authentic Gospel of Jesus, London, Penguin 2004 ISBN 0-14-100360-X
The Passion, London, Penguin 2005 ISBN 0-14-102132-2.
Who's Who in the Age of Jesus, London, Penguin 2005 ISBN 0-14-051565-8
The Nativity: History and Legend, London, Penguin 2006 ISBN 0-14-102446-1
The Resurrection: History and Myth, Doubleday Books 2008 ISBN 0-385-52242-8.
Searching for the Real Jesus, London, SCM Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-334-04358-4
The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, London, Penguin 2010 ISBN 978-0-14-104615-0
Jesus: Nativity – Passion – Resurrection, London, Penguin 2010 ISBN 978-0-14-104622-8
Jesus in the Jewish World, London, SCM Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-334-04379-9
Christian Beginnings from Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325, London, Allen Lane 2012 ISBN 978-1-846-14150-8
The True Herod, London, Bloomsbury, 2014 ISBN 978-0-567-57544-9
For more details see his autobiography, Providential Accidents, London, SCM Press, 1998 ISBN 0-334-02722-5; Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 1998 ISBN 0-8476-9340-6.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide. Fortress Press. 1998. translated from German (1996 edition). Chapter 1. Quest of the historical Jesus. p. 1-16
2.Jump up ^ Crace, John (18 March 2008). "Geza Vermes: Questions arising". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2008.; G. Richard Wheatcroft review of The Authentic Gospel of Jesus.
3.Jump up ^ Harrington, Daniel J. (24 March 2008). "No Evidence? The Resurrection by Geza Vermes". America. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Yardley, William (16 May 2013). "Geza Vermes, Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar, Dies at 88". The New York Times.
5.Jump up ^ Who's who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology – Google Books
6.Jump up ^ Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 – Forward.com
7.^ Jump up to: a b Geza Vermes: Geza Vermes, a Jew, ex-priest and translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on May 8th aged 88
8.Jump up ^ Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 – Forward.com
9.Jump up ^ Alexander, Philip (14 May 2013). "Geza Vermes obituary: Expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
10.Jump up ^ Géza Vermès, Providential Accidents: An autobiography, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, ISBN 0-8476-9340-6, p. 170.
11.Jump up ^ PaleoJudaica.com: 05/05/2013 – 05/12/2013
12.Jump up ^ , re-issued in London by Penguin Classics, as The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2004, ISBN 0-14-044952-3.
13.Jump up ^ Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1973, ISBN 0-567-02242-0, 1979, ISBN 0-567-02243-9, 1986–87. ISBN 0-567-02244-7, ISBN 0-567-09373-5.
14.^ Jump up to: a b "Jesus Christ." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 8 November 2010 .
15.Jump up ^ JJS Online Journal of Jewish Studies.
16.Jump up ^ Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
17.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Vermes, Geza. The authentic gospel of Jesus. London, Penguin Books. 2004. Epilogue. p. 398-417.
18.Jump up ^ Sanders, E. P. The historical figure of Jesus. Penguin, 1993.
19.Jump up ^ Géza Vermes, "The great Da Vinci Code distraction", in The Times, 6 May 2006. Article reproduced in Vermes, Searching for the Real Jesus: Jesus, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Religious Themes (SCM Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0334043584
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The native form of this personal name is Vermes Géza. This article uses the Western name order.
Géza Vermes (Hungarian: [ˈɡeːzɒ ˈvɛrmɛʃ], 22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin—one who also served as a Catholic priest in his youth—and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He was a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient works in Aramaic such as the Targums, and on the life and religion of Jesus. He was one of the most important voices in contemporary Jesus research,[1] and he has been described as the greatest Jesus scholar of his time.[2] Vermes' written work on Jesus focuses principally on Jesus the Jew, as seen in the broader context of the narrative scope of Jewish history and theology, while questioning the basis of some Christian teachings on Jesus.[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography
2 Academic career
3 Historical Jesus
4 Selected publications
5 References
6 External links

Biography[edit]
Vermes was born in Makó, Hungary, in 1924 to parents of Jewish descent, schoolteacher Terézia (Riesz) and liberal journalist Ernő Vermes,[4][5] (His family, however, had not practised Judaism since the early 19th century.[4]) All three were baptised as Roman Catholics when he was seven. His mother and father died in the Holocaust.
Vermes attended a Catholic seminary. When he was eligible for college, in 1942, Jews were not accepted into Hungarian universities.[6]
After the Second World War, he became a Roman Catholic priest, but was not admitted into the Jesuit or Dominican orders because of his Jewish ancestry. Vermes was accepted into the Order of the Fathers of Notre-Dame de Sion,[4] a French/Belgian order founded by Jewish converts[7] which prayed for Jews.[8]
He studied first in Budapest and then at the College St Albert and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, where he read Oriental history and languages. In 1953 obtained a doctorate in theology with the first dissertation written on the Dead Sea Scrolls and its historical framework.[4]
After researching the scrolls in Paris for several years,[4] on a visit to Britain he met the scholar and poet Pamela Hobson Curle; though she was married,[9] the two fell in love in 1955. Vermes left the Catholic Church in 1957 and reasserted his Jewish identity; however, he "insisted he had not converted, just "grew out of" Christianity."[7] Relocating to Britain, he and Curle married in 1958. He took up a teaching post at what is now the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.[4] In 1965 he joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University, rising to become the first professor of Jewish Studies before his retirement in 1991. In 1970 he became a member of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London.[10] After the death of his first wife in 1993, he married Margaret Unarska in 1996 and adopted her son, Ian.
Vermes died on 8 May 2013 after a recurrence of cancer.[11]
Academic career[edit]
Vermes was one of the first scholars to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls after their discovery in 1947, and is the author of the standard translation into English of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Dead Sea Scrolls in English (1962)[12] He is one of the leading scholars in the field of the study of the historical Jesus (see Selected Publications, below) and together with Fergus Millar and Martin Goodman, Vermes was responsible for substantially revising Emil Schurer's three-volume work, The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ,[13] His An Introduction to the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls, revised edition (2000), is a study of the collection at Qumran.[14]
Until his death, he was a Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, but continued to teach at the Oriental Institute in Oxford. He had edited the Journal of Jewish Studies[15] from 1971 to his death, and from 1991 he had been director of the Oxford Forum for Qumran Research at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies[16] He inspired the creation of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) in 1975 and of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) in 1981 and acted as founding president for both.
Vermes was a Fellow of the British Academy; a Fellow of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities; holder of an Oxford D. Litt. (1988) and of honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh (1989), University of Durham (1990), University of Sheffield (1994) and the Central European University of Budapest (2008). He was awarded the Wilhelm Bacher Memorial Medal by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1996), the Memorial Medal of the city of Makó, his place of birth (2008) and the keys of the cities of Monroe LA and Natchez MI (2009). He received a vote of congratulation from the US House of Representatives, proposed by the Representative of Louisiana on 17 September 2009.
In the course of a lecture tour in the United States in September 2009, Vermes spoke at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, at Duke University in Durham NC, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD, and at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and at Baton Rouge.
On 23 January 2012 Penguin Books celebrated at Wolfson College, Oxford, the golden jubilee of Vermes's The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, which has sold an estimated half-a-million copies worldwide. A "Fiftieth anniversary" edition has been issued in the Penguin Classics series.
Historical Jesus[edit]
Main article: Historical Jesus
Vermes was a prominent scholar in the contemporary field of historical Jesus research.[17] The contemporary approach, known as the "third quest," emphasizes Jesus' Jewish identity and context.[17] It portrays Jesus as founding a renewal movement within Judaism.[17]
Vermes described Jesus as a 1st-century Jewish holy man, a commonplace view in academia but novel to the public when Vermes began publishing.[4] Contrary to certain other scholars (such as E. P. Sanders[18]), Vermes concludes that Jesus did not reach out to non-Jews. For example, he attributes positive references to Samaritans in the gospels not to Jesus himself but to early Christian editing. He suggests that, properly understood, the historical Jesus is a figure that Jews should find familiar and attractive.[17] This historical Jesus, however, is so different from the Christ of faith that Christians, says Vermes, may well want to rethink the fundamentals of their faith.[17]
Important works on this topic include Jesus the Jew (1973), which describes Jesus as a thoroughly Jewish Galilean charismatic, and The Gospel of Jesus the Jew (1981), which examines Jewish parallels to Jesus' teaching.[14]
Vermes believed it is possible "to retrieve the authentic Gospel of Jesus, his first-hand message to his original followers."[19]
Selected publications[edit]
Scripture and Tradition in Judaism: Haggadic studies (Studia post-biblica), Brill, Leiden 1961 ISBN 90-04-03626-1
Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1973 ISBN 0-8006-1443-7
Post-Biblical Jewish Studies, Brill, Leiden, 1975 ISBN 90-04-04160-5
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1977 ISBN 0-8006-1435-6
Jesus and the World of Judaism, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1983 ISBN 0-8006-1784-3
The Essenes According to the Classical Sources (with Martin Goodman), Sheffield Academic Press 1989 ISBN 1-85075-139-0
The Religion of Jesus the Jew, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1993 ISBN 0-8006-2797-0
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Penguin 1997 ISBN 978-0-14-044952-5 (2004 ed.) (Fiftieth anniversary ed. 2011 ISBN 978-0-141-19731-9)
The Changing Faces of Jesus, London, Penguin 2001 ISBN 0-14-026524-4
Jesus in his Jewish Context, Minneapolis, Fortress Press 2003 ISBN 0-8006-3623-6
The Authentic Gospel of Jesus, London, Penguin 2004 ISBN 0-14-100360-X
The Passion, London, Penguin 2005 ISBN 0-14-102132-2.
Who's Who in the Age of Jesus, London, Penguin 2005 ISBN 0-14-051565-8
The Nativity: History and Legend, London, Penguin 2006 ISBN 0-14-102446-1
The Resurrection: History and Myth, Doubleday Books 2008 ISBN 0-385-52242-8.
Searching for the Real Jesus, London, SCM Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-334-04358-4
The Story of the Scrolls: The Miraculous Discovery and True Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, London, Penguin 2010 ISBN 978-0-14-104615-0
Jesus: Nativity – Passion – Resurrection, London, Penguin 2010 ISBN 978-0-14-104622-8
Jesus in the Jewish World, London, SCM Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-334-04379-9
Christian Beginnings from Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325, London, Allen Lane 2012 ISBN 978-1-846-14150-8
The True Herod, London, Bloomsbury, 2014 ISBN 978-0-567-57544-9
For more details see his autobiography, Providential Accidents, London, SCM Press, 1998 ISBN 0-334-02722-5; Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 1998 ISBN 0-8476-9340-6.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Theissen, Gerd and Annette Merz. The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide. Fortress Press. 1998. translated from German (1996 edition). Chapter 1. Quest of the historical Jesus. p. 1-16
2.Jump up ^ Crace, John (18 March 2008). "Geza Vermes: Questions arising". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2008.; G. Richard Wheatcroft review of The Authentic Gospel of Jesus.
3.Jump up ^ Harrington, Daniel J. (24 March 2008). "No Evidence? The Resurrection by Geza Vermes". America. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Yardley, William (16 May 2013). "Geza Vermes, Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar, Dies at 88". The New York Times.
5.Jump up ^ Who's who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology – Google Books
6.Jump up ^ Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 – Forward.com
7.^ Jump up to: a b Geza Vermes: Geza Vermes, a Jew, ex-priest and translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, died on May 8th aged 88
8.Jump up ^ Geza Vermes, Hungarian Bible Scholar Who Returned to Jewish Roots, Dies at 88 – Forward.com
9.Jump up ^ Alexander, Philip (14 May 2013). "Geza Vermes obituary: Expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
10.Jump up ^ Géza Vermès, Providential Accidents: An autobiography, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, ISBN 0-8476-9340-6, p. 170.
11.Jump up ^ PaleoJudaica.com: 05/05/2013 – 05/12/2013
12.Jump up ^ , re-issued in London by Penguin Classics, as The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 2004, ISBN 0-14-044952-3.
13.Jump up ^ Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1973, ISBN 0-567-02242-0, 1979, ISBN 0-567-02243-9, 1986–87. ISBN 0-567-02244-7, ISBN 0-567-09373-5.
14.^ Jump up to: a b "Jesus Christ." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 8 November 2010 .
15.Jump up ^ JJS Online Journal of Jewish Studies.
16.Jump up ^ Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
17.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Vermes, Geza. The authentic gospel of Jesus. London, Penguin Books. 2004. Epilogue. p. 398-417.
18.Jump up ^ Sanders, E. P. The historical figure of Jesus. Penguin, 1993.
19.Jump up ^ Géza Vermes, "The great Da Vinci Code distraction", in The Times, 6 May 2006. Article reproduced in Vermes, Searching for the Real Jesus: Jesus, The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Religious Themes (SCM Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0334043584
External links[edit]
 Quotations related to Geza Vermes at Wikiquote


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Dead Sea Scrolls topics


Texts
4Q106 ·
 4Q107 ·
 4Q108 ·
 4Q175 ·
 4Q240 ·
 4Q246 ·
 4Q252 ·
 4Q400-407 Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice ·
 4Q448 ·
 4Q510-511 Songs of the Sage ·
 4Q521 ·
 4QMMT ·
 4QInstruction ·
 6Q6 ·
 7Q5 ·
 11Q13 Melchizedek ·
 The Book of Giants ·
 The Book of Mysteries (1Q27 and 4Q299-301) ·
 Community Rule (1QS) ·
 Copper Scroll (3Q15) ·
 Damascus Document (CD) ·
 Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen ar) ·
 Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) ·
 Isaiah scroll (1QIsaa) ·
 Nahum Commentary (4QpNah) ·
 The Rule of the Blessing (1QSb) ·
 The Rule of the Congregation (1QSa) ·
 The Secret of the Way Things Are ·
 Temple Scroll (11Q19) ·
 Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH) ·
 War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness (1QM)
 

Places
Qumran ·
 Qumran Caves ·
 Qumran cemetery ·
 Ein Feshkha ·
 Kohlit ·
 Secacah ·
 Wadi Murabba'at
 

Issues
Essenes ·
 Sadducees ·
 Carbon dating ·
 Yahad Ostracon ·
 Pesher ·
 Dual messiahs ·
 Teacher of Righteousness ·
 Wicked Priest ·
 Calendrical texts
 

Scholars
John Marco Allegro ·
 Joseph M. Baumgarten ·
 Pierre Benoit ·
 John J. Collins ·
 Frank Moore Cross ·
 Philip R. Davies ·
 André Dupont-Sommer ·
 Robert Eisenman ·
 Hanan Eshel ·
 Joseph Fitzmyer ·
 Katharina Galor ·
 Jamal-Dominique Hopkins ·
 Jean-Baptiste Humbert ·
 Florentino García Martínez ·
 Norman Golb ·
 Jonas C. Greenfield ·
 Gerald Lankester Harding ·
 Yizhar Hirschfeld ·
 Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz ·
 Jodi Magness ·
 Józef Milik ·
 Bargil Pixner ·
 Elisha Qimron ·
 Lawrence Schiffman ·
 Solomon H. Steckoll ·
 Hartmut Stegemann ·
 John Strugnell ·
 Eleazar Sukenik ·
 Carsten Peter Thiede ·
 Emanuel Tov ·
 John C. Trever ·
 Eugene Ulrich ·
 Roland de Vaux ·
 Géza Vermes ·
 Yigael Yadin ·
 José O'Callaghan Martínez
 

Other
Shrine of the Book ·
 The Orion Center ·
 École Biblique ·
 Discoveries in the Judaean Desert ·
 Mar Samuel ·
 Muhammed edh-Dhib ·
 Najib Albina
 



Authority control
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R. Joseph Hoffmann

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R. Joseph Hoffmann
R.Joseph Hoffmann 2
Born
December 16, 1957 (age 57)
Residence
Deer Isle, Maine[1]
Occupation
Historian, Author, Lecturer
Raymond Joseph Hoffmann is a historian whose work has focused on the early social and intellectual development of Christianity.[2] His work includes an extensive study of the role and dating of Marcion in the history of the New Testament, as well the reconstruction and translation of the writings of early pagan opponents of Chistianity: Celsus, Porphyry and Julian the Apostate. As a senior vice president for the Center for Inquiry, he chaired the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, CSER, where he initiated the Jesus Project, a scholarly investigation into the historicity of Jesus. Hoffmann has described himself as "an unbeliever with a soft spot for religion".[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Scholarly work 2.1 Marcion
2.2 Ancient critics of Christianity
2.3 The "Jesus Project"
3 Humanist and atheist criticisms
4 Selected works
5 References
6 External links

Background[edit]
Hoffmann holds graduate degrees in theology from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Christian Origins from the University of Oxford. He began his teaching career at the University of Michigan as assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies, where he developed the undergraduate and graduate program in Christian origins. From 1991 to 1999, he was senior lecturer in New Testament and Church History at Westminster College, Oxford.
Hoffmann's academic positions include tutor in Greek at Keble College (1980–1983) and Senior Scholar at St Cross College, Oxford. He was the Wissenschaftlicher Assistant in Patristics and Classical Studies at the University of Heidelberg, the Campbell Professor of Religion and Human Values at Wells College until 2006 and Distinguished Scholar at Goddard College in 2009. He has taught at Cal State Sacramento, the American University of Beirut and various universities in Africa (Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Botswana), the Middle East, the Pacific (Australia and Papua New Guinea) and South Asia, most recently as Visiting Professor of History at LUMS in Lahore, Pakistan and as Professor of Historical Linguistics at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Hoffmann has also setved as special lecturer in Liberal Arts at the New England Conservatory in Boston[1][4]
As a fellow at the Center for Inquiry, he was Chair of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion from 2003 to 2009, and a founding faculty member (1986) of the Humanist Institute.[5][6] He is at present Professor of Liberal Arts at the American University of Central Asia
Scholarly work[edit]
Marcion[edit]
Hoffmann's 1982 doctoral thesis, Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity, was published in 1984. Hoffmann proposed that Marcion must be dated substantially before the dates assigned on the basis of patristic testimony. According to Hoffmann, Marcion possessed the earliest version of Luke and preserved the primitive version of Paul's letters. He also attempted to discredit much of the early patristic evidence for Marcion's life and thought as being apologetically driven.
Reviews of this work reflected its controversial nature. Writing in Revue Biblique, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor called attention to the radical nature of Hoffmann's theory while asserting that it was "unlikely that a book of equal importance will appear in this generation."[7] J. L. Houlden commended Hoffmann's skill in "reading between the lines" of Marcion's ancient critics and called the book "a model of how doctrinal history should now be written",[8] while George E. Saint-Laurent concluded, "[H]ereafter Marcion's positive contribution to the mainstream tradition of Catholic-Orthodox Christianity so far as the decisive role of Paul is concerned will have to be acknowledged."[9] Other reviewers thought that Hoffmann's examination of the evidence was valuable but that his conclusions could only be regarded as speculative.[10][11] The book received a very negative assessment from C. P. Bammel, who accused the author of numerous historical errors and misinterpretations of patristic texts.[12] In a book published in 1993, Bart D. Ehrman noted that Hoffmann's Marcion had "not been well received".[13]
Hoffmann responded to critics of the Marcion in a special issue of The Second Century.[14] His thesis has since been revisited by New Testament scholars including David Trobisch, Joseph Tyson and Robert M. Price.[15][16][17]
Ancient critics of Christianity[edit]
Hoffmann has also published English translations of three early pagan opponents of Christianity. In each case the original work has been lost but the arguments have survived through contemporary works written to refute them. The first, Celsus: On the True Doctrine was published in 1987. Hoffmann recreated the arguments of Celsus using the work Contra Celsum, written by Origen of Alexandria. Theology professor William Weinrich commented that Hoffmann "wisely forgoes any attempt to restore the original order of Celsus' work, opting rather to present Celsus' writing thematically."[18] Others have criticized Hoffman's recreations of Celsus as misrepresentative.[19]
In 1994 Hoffmann published Porphyry: Against the Christians (the Literary Remains). Hoffmann's work is a new translation based on a 15th-century manuscript preserved by Macarius Magnes. The author of the criticisms in that manuscript is not known with certainty. The argument that the critic was Porphyry was first advanced by the historian Adolph von Harnack,[20] though his theory been disputed.[21] In a recent translation of the contemporary works citing Against the Christians, Robert M. Berchman notes that Hoffmann's translation is "an important contribution to the study of the text."[22]
In 2004 he published a translation of Julian: Against the Galileans, a work by the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, Julian. Julian's arguments survived through the work Contra Julianum written by Cyril of Alexandria.
The "Jesus Project"[edit]
In 2007 Hoffmann, together with New Testament scholars Robert Price and Gerd Luedemann, announced the formation of a colloquium to re-examine the traditions for the existence of a historical Jesus.[23][24] The initial meeting of the so-called "Jesus Project[25] " took place in Amherst, NY, December 5–7, 2008 and included fifteen scholars from a variety of disciplines including James Tabor, Robert Eisenman, and Bruce Chilton. The Project, according to Hoffmann, was designed to determine "what can be reliably recovered about the historical figure of Jesus, his life, his teachings, and his activities, utilizing the highest standards of scientific and scholarly objectivity".[26] The Project was seen as a continuation and modification of the Jesus Seminar, founded by Robert Funk and John Dominic Crossan.[26][27] In 2009 the Center for Inquiry de-funded the Jesus Project and discontinued CSER.[28] In 2012, Hoffmann announced a new consortium called "The Jesus Process" to further investigate Christian origins.[29]
Humanist and atheist criticisms[edit]
Though Hoffmann self identifies as a humanist, he has been an outspoken critic of many aspects of contemporary humanism and atheism. In 2007, following comments from Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, suggesting that atheist authors Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins were "atheist fundamentalists", Hoffmann wrote a publicly posted letter that called Epstein confused and accused him of abusing the Harvard name to stake out his own divisive position.[30][31] He further criticised Epstein's "New Humanism"[32] as "Gen-X humanism for the passionately confused".[30][33][34]
Hoffmann has also expressed criticism of the tactics employed by the modern New Atheist movement. In 2009 blog post discussing the Center for Inquiry's Blasphemy Day he wrote new atheism is "really nothing more than the triumph of the jerks".[35] Commenting about the American Humanist Association's selection of P.Z. Myers as 2009 Humanist of the Year he wrote "humanism, infused and high-jacked by the “new” atheism, has been turned into a parody of serious humanist principles and ideals".[36] Hoffmann has also decried the lack of historical theological knowledge of many New Atheism proponents, criticizing the work of atheist writers Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett as being historically naive in a 2006 Free Inquiry article.[37]
In comments regarding religion in popular culture, Hoffmann had welcomed the attention drawn to debates about early Christianity by the documentary film The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007), but rejected the filmmakers' conclusion that the Talpiot Tomb was the burial place of Jesus and his family.[38] He has also criticised the sensationalism attached to The Da Vinci Code as a confusing blend of history and fiction.[39]
Selected works[edit]
Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity, author, (Scholars Press, August 1984), Oxford University Press, 1995), ISBN 0-89130-638-2
Celsus: On the True Doctrine, translator, editor, (Oxford University Press, February 19, 1987) ISBN 0-19-504151-8
Jesus Outside the Gospels, author, (Prometheus Books, February 1987) ISBN 0-87975-387-0
What the Bible Really Says, editor, with Morton Smith (Harper and Row, May 1993) ISBN 0-06-067443-1
The Secret Gospels: A Harmony of Apocryphal Jesus Traditions, editor, (Prometheus Books, April 1996) ISBN 1-57392-069-X
Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains, editor and translator, (Prometheus Books, July 1994) ISBN 0-87975-889-9
Julian's Against the Galileans, editor and translator, (Prometheus Books, November 2004) ISBN 1-59102-198-7
"Myth and Christianity: A New Introduction," in Karl Jaspers and Rudolf Bultmann, Myth and Christianity: An Inquiry into the Possibility of Religion Without Myth, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, May 6, 2005), ISBN 1-59102-291-6
The Just War and Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, editor, (Prometheus Books, January 2, 2006) ISBN 1-59102-371-8
Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History?, introduction, (Prometheus Books, April 21, 2006) ISBN 1-59102-370-X
"Beyond the Discontinuity Paradigm: Towards a Pan-African Church History", Journal of Religious History, 21 (2), 136–158. Blackwell Publishing
Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth, editor, (Prometheus Books, November 2010) ISBN 1-61614-189-1
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Open Salon Blog". Retrieved 26 February 2014.
2.Jump up ^ "Point of Inquiry - The Scientific Study of Religion". Retrieved 25 February 2014.
3.Jump up ^ "Lament of a Soft Shelled Anti-American Atheist". The New Oxonian. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
4.Jump up ^ "Twitter home page". Retrieved 26 February 2014.
5.Jump up ^ "Vita Brevis". Retrieved 19 January 2014.
6.Jump up ^ "R.Joseph Hoffmann, Center for Inquiry Bio". Retrieved 28 February 2014.
7.Jump up ^ Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. April 1986. Review of R. Joseph Hoffmann, Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity. Revue Biblique, 46, 311-312
8.Jump up ^ J. L. Houlden (August 1984). "Marcion revisited". Expository Times 95 (11): 345. doi:10.1177/001452468409501119.
9.Jump up ^ George E. Saint-Laurent (Spring 1986). "Review of Marcion". Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54 (1): 176–177. "no"
10.Jump up ^ Robert B. Eno (March 1985). "Review of Marcion". Theological Studies 46 (1): 173–174. "no"
11.Jump up ^ LeMoine G. Lewis (June 1985). "Review of Marcion". Church History 54 (2): 230. doi:10.2307/3167238. "no"
12.Jump up ^ C. P. Bammel (April 1988). "Review of Marcion". Journal of Theological Studies 39 (1): 227–232. doi:10.1093/jts/39.1.227. "no"
13.Jump up ^ Bart D. Ehrman (1996) [1993]. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 245 n. 22. ISBN 0-19-510279-7.
14.Jump up ^ R. Joseph Hoffmann (1987–88). "How Then Know This Troublous Teacher? Further Reflections on Marcion and his Church". Second Century 6 (3): 173–191.
15.Jump up ^ David Trobisch (2000). The First Edition of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511240-7.
16.Jump up ^ Joseph B. Tyson (2006). Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-650-0.
17.Jump up ^ Robert M. Price, Review of Gerd Luedemann, Heretics: The Other Side of Christianity (1996) [1] Tetrieved on 2008-10-17
18.Jump up ^ Weinrich, William C. 1987. Review of R. Joseph Hoffmann, Celsus On the True Doctrine. Concordia Theological Quarterly,51, 296-297.
19.Jump up ^ http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/celsus/celsus.htm
20.Jump up ^ "http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/porphyry/hoffmann.htm". Retrieved 2 March 2014.
21.Jump up ^ T.D. Barnes (1973). "Porphyry Against the Christians: Date and the Attribution of Fragments". Journal of Theological Studies 24(2), 424-442.
22.Jump up ^ Berchman, Robert M. Porphyry Against the Christians(2005). E.J. Brill, Leiden, p. x. ISBN 90-04-14811-6
23.Jump up ^ Jennifer Green,"Where Angels Fear to Tread". Ottawa Citizen(April 2007)[2] Retrieved on 2008-17-10
24.Jump up ^ "The Jesus Project" http://www.centerforinquiry.net/jesusproject
25.Jump up ^ "Point of Inquiry-The Jesus Project". Retrieved 19 January 2014.
26.^ Jump up to: a b Csillag, Ron (2008-12-27). "For scholars, a combustible question: Was Christ real?". The Star (Toronto). Retrieved 2010-05-22.
27.Jump up ^ Project-ing Jesus | Gleanings | ChristianityToday.com
28.Jump up ^ "Processing the Project". Retrieved 22 February 2014.
29.Jump up ^ "The Jesus Process". Retrieved 22 February 2014.
30.^ Jump up to: a b "Greg Epstein does not equal Humanism". Brian Flemming's Weblog. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
31.Jump up ^ Lisa Miller (June 18, 2007). "BeliefWatch: Smackdown". Newsweek (LEXISNEXIS REPRINT).
32.Jump up ^ "The New Humanism,"http://www.thenewhumanism.org/ Retrieved on 31-08-2008
33.Jump up ^ "The Nonbelievers". Retrieved 4 March 2014.
34.Jump up ^ "Removing Religion from Holidays a Tall Order". NPR.org. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
35.Jump up ^ "Atheist Tantrums: the New Loud". Retrieved 8 March 2014.
36.Jump up ^ "On the Dignity of Humanism". Retrieved 8 March 2014.
37.Jump up ^ "Why 'Hard Science' Won't Cure 'Easy' Religion" Free Inquiry(2006) 26(3), 47-9
38.Jump up ^ "Who is Entombed in the 'Jesus Tomb'?" U.S. News, March 12, 2007, p. 34-35
39.Jump up ^ "Examining the DaVinci Code". Point of Inquiry. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
External links[edit]
The New Oxonian - R. Joseph Hoffmann's Blog
Open Salon Blog
Center for Inquiry
Examination of selected passages from the Celsus
Review of the Porphyry translation


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R. Joseph Hoffmann
R.Joseph Hoffmann 2
Born
December 16, 1957 (age 57)
Residence
Deer Isle, Maine[1]
Occupation
Historian, Author, Lecturer
Raymond Joseph Hoffmann is a historian whose work has focused on the early social and intellectual development of Christianity.[2] His work includes an extensive study of the role and dating of Marcion in the history of the New Testament, as well the reconstruction and translation of the writings of early pagan opponents of Chistianity: Celsus, Porphyry and Julian the Apostate. As a senior vice president for the Center for Inquiry, he chaired the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, CSER, where he initiated the Jesus Project, a scholarly investigation into the historicity of Jesus. Hoffmann has described himself as "an unbeliever with a soft spot for religion".[3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Scholarly work 2.1 Marcion
2.2 Ancient critics of Christianity
2.3 The "Jesus Project"
3 Humanist and atheist criticisms
4 Selected works
5 References
6 External links

Background[edit]
Hoffmann holds graduate degrees in theology from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Christian Origins from the University of Oxford. He began his teaching career at the University of Michigan as assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies, where he developed the undergraduate and graduate program in Christian origins. From 1991 to 1999, he was senior lecturer in New Testament and Church History at Westminster College, Oxford.
Hoffmann's academic positions include tutor in Greek at Keble College (1980–1983) and Senior Scholar at St Cross College, Oxford. He was the Wissenschaftlicher Assistant in Patristics and Classical Studies at the University of Heidelberg, the Campbell Professor of Religion and Human Values at Wells College until 2006 and Distinguished Scholar at Goddard College in 2009. He has taught at Cal State Sacramento, the American University of Beirut and various universities in Africa (Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Botswana), the Middle East, the Pacific (Australia and Papua New Guinea) and South Asia, most recently as Visiting Professor of History at LUMS in Lahore, Pakistan and as Professor of Historical Linguistics at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Hoffmann has also setved as special lecturer in Liberal Arts at the New England Conservatory in Boston[1][4]
As a fellow at the Center for Inquiry, he was Chair of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion from 2003 to 2009, and a founding faculty member (1986) of the Humanist Institute.[5][6] He is at present Professor of Liberal Arts at the American University of Central Asia
Scholarly work[edit]
Marcion[edit]
Hoffmann's 1982 doctoral thesis, Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity, was published in 1984. Hoffmann proposed that Marcion must be dated substantially before the dates assigned on the basis of patristic testimony. According to Hoffmann, Marcion possessed the earliest version of Luke and preserved the primitive version of Paul's letters. He also attempted to discredit much of the early patristic evidence for Marcion's life and thought as being apologetically driven.
Reviews of this work reflected its controversial nature. Writing in Revue Biblique, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor called attention to the radical nature of Hoffmann's theory while asserting that it was "unlikely that a book of equal importance will appear in this generation."[7] J. L. Houlden commended Hoffmann's skill in "reading between the lines" of Marcion's ancient critics and called the book "a model of how doctrinal history should now be written",[8] while George E. Saint-Laurent concluded, "[H]ereafter Marcion's positive contribution to the mainstream tradition of Catholic-Orthodox Christianity so far as the decisive role of Paul is concerned will have to be acknowledged."[9] Other reviewers thought that Hoffmann's examination of the evidence was valuable but that his conclusions could only be regarded as speculative.[10][11] The book received a very negative assessment from C. P. Bammel, who accused the author of numerous historical errors and misinterpretations of patristic texts.[12] In a book published in 1993, Bart D. Ehrman noted that Hoffmann's Marcion had "not been well received".[13]
Hoffmann responded to critics of the Marcion in a special issue of The Second Century.[14] His thesis has since been revisited by New Testament scholars including David Trobisch, Joseph Tyson and Robert M. Price.[15][16][17]
Ancient critics of Christianity[edit]
Hoffmann has also published English translations of three early pagan opponents of Christianity. In each case the original work has been lost but the arguments have survived through contemporary works written to refute them. The first, Celsus: On the True Doctrine was published in 1987. Hoffmann recreated the arguments of Celsus using the work Contra Celsum, written by Origen of Alexandria. Theology professor William Weinrich commented that Hoffmann "wisely forgoes any attempt to restore the original order of Celsus' work, opting rather to present Celsus' writing thematically."[18] Others have criticized Hoffman's recreations of Celsus as misrepresentative.[19]
In 1994 Hoffmann published Porphyry: Against the Christians (the Literary Remains). Hoffmann's work is a new translation based on a 15th-century manuscript preserved by Macarius Magnes. The author of the criticisms in that manuscript is not known with certainty. The argument that the critic was Porphyry was first advanced by the historian Adolph von Harnack,[20] though his theory been disputed.[21] In a recent translation of the contemporary works citing Against the Christians, Robert M. Berchman notes that Hoffmann's translation is "an important contribution to the study of the text."[22]
In 2004 he published a translation of Julian: Against the Galileans, a work by the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, Julian. Julian's arguments survived through the work Contra Julianum written by Cyril of Alexandria.
The "Jesus Project"[edit]
In 2007 Hoffmann, together with New Testament scholars Robert Price and Gerd Luedemann, announced the formation of a colloquium to re-examine the traditions for the existence of a historical Jesus.[23][24] The initial meeting of the so-called "Jesus Project[25] " took place in Amherst, NY, December 5–7, 2008 and included fifteen scholars from a variety of disciplines including James Tabor, Robert Eisenman, and Bruce Chilton. The Project, according to Hoffmann, was designed to determine "what can be reliably recovered about the historical figure of Jesus, his life, his teachings, and his activities, utilizing the highest standards of scientific and scholarly objectivity".[26] The Project was seen as a continuation and modification of the Jesus Seminar, founded by Robert Funk and John Dominic Crossan.[26][27] In 2009 the Center for Inquiry de-funded the Jesus Project and discontinued CSER.[28] In 2012, Hoffmann announced a new consortium called "The Jesus Process" to further investigate Christian origins.[29]
Humanist and atheist criticisms[edit]
Though Hoffmann self identifies as a humanist, he has been an outspoken critic of many aspects of contemporary humanism and atheism. In 2007, following comments from Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, suggesting that atheist authors Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins were "atheist fundamentalists", Hoffmann wrote a publicly posted letter that called Epstein confused and accused him of abusing the Harvard name to stake out his own divisive position.[30][31] He further criticised Epstein's "New Humanism"[32] as "Gen-X humanism for the passionately confused".[30][33][34]
Hoffmann has also expressed criticism of the tactics employed by the modern New Atheist movement. In 2009 blog post discussing the Center for Inquiry's Blasphemy Day he wrote new atheism is "really nothing more than the triumph of the jerks".[35] Commenting about the American Humanist Association's selection of P.Z. Myers as 2009 Humanist of the Year he wrote "humanism, infused and high-jacked by the “new” atheism, has been turned into a parody of serious humanist principles and ideals".[36] Hoffmann has also decried the lack of historical theological knowledge of many New Atheism proponents, criticizing the work of atheist writers Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett as being historically naive in a 2006 Free Inquiry article.[37]
In comments regarding religion in popular culture, Hoffmann had welcomed the attention drawn to debates about early Christianity by the documentary film The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007), but rejected the filmmakers' conclusion that the Talpiot Tomb was the burial place of Jesus and his family.[38] He has also criticised the sensationalism attached to The Da Vinci Code as a confusing blend of history and fiction.[39]
Selected works[edit]
Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity, author, (Scholars Press, August 1984), Oxford University Press, 1995), ISBN 0-89130-638-2
Celsus: On the True Doctrine, translator, editor, (Oxford University Press, February 19, 1987) ISBN 0-19-504151-8
Jesus Outside the Gospels, author, (Prometheus Books, February 1987) ISBN 0-87975-387-0
What the Bible Really Says, editor, with Morton Smith (Harper and Row, May 1993) ISBN 0-06-067443-1
The Secret Gospels: A Harmony of Apocryphal Jesus Traditions, editor, (Prometheus Books, April 1996) ISBN 1-57392-069-X
Porphyry's Against the Christians: The Literary Remains, editor and translator, (Prometheus Books, July 1994) ISBN 0-87975-889-9
Julian's Against the Galileans, editor and translator, (Prometheus Books, November 2004) ISBN 1-59102-198-7
"Myth and Christianity: A New Introduction," in Karl Jaspers and Rudolf Bultmann, Myth and Christianity: An Inquiry into the Possibility of Religion Without Myth, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, May 6, 2005), ISBN 1-59102-291-6
The Just War and Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, editor, (Prometheus Books, January 2, 2006) ISBN 1-59102-371-8
Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History?, introduction, (Prometheus Books, April 21, 2006) ISBN 1-59102-370-X
"Beyond the Discontinuity Paradigm: Towards a Pan-African Church History", Journal of Religious History, 21 (2), 136–158. Blackwell Publishing
Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth, editor, (Prometheus Books, November 2010) ISBN 1-61614-189-1
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b "Open Salon Blog". Retrieved 26 February 2014.
2.Jump up ^ "Point of Inquiry - The Scientific Study of Religion". Retrieved 25 February 2014.
3.Jump up ^ "Lament of a Soft Shelled Anti-American Atheist". The New Oxonian. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
4.Jump up ^ "Twitter home page". Retrieved 26 February 2014.
5.Jump up ^ "Vita Brevis". Retrieved 19 January 2014.
6.Jump up ^ "R.Joseph Hoffmann, Center for Inquiry Bio". Retrieved 28 February 2014.
7.Jump up ^ Murphy-O'Connor, Jerome. April 1986. Review of R. Joseph Hoffmann, Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity. Revue Biblique, 46, 311-312
8.Jump up ^ J. L. Houlden (August 1984). "Marcion revisited". Expository Times 95 (11): 345. doi:10.1177/001452468409501119.
9.Jump up ^ George E. Saint-Laurent (Spring 1986). "Review of Marcion". Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54 (1): 176–177. "no"
10.Jump up ^ Robert B. Eno (March 1985). "Review of Marcion". Theological Studies 46 (1): 173–174. "no"
11.Jump up ^ LeMoine G. Lewis (June 1985). "Review of Marcion". Church History 54 (2): 230. doi:10.2307/3167238. "no"
12.Jump up ^ C. P. Bammel (April 1988). "Review of Marcion". Journal of Theological Studies 39 (1): 227–232. doi:10.1093/jts/39.1.227. "no"
13.Jump up ^ Bart D. Ehrman (1996) [1993]. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 245 n. 22. ISBN 0-19-510279-7.
14.Jump up ^ R. Joseph Hoffmann (1987–88). "How Then Know This Troublous Teacher? Further Reflections on Marcion and his Church". Second Century 6 (3): 173–191.
15.Jump up ^ David Trobisch (2000). The First Edition of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511240-7.
16.Jump up ^ Joseph B. Tyson (2006). Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-650-0.
17.Jump up ^ Robert M. Price, Review of Gerd Luedemann, Heretics: The Other Side of Christianity (1996) [1] Tetrieved on 2008-10-17
18.Jump up ^ Weinrich, William C. 1987. Review of R. Joseph Hoffmann, Celsus On the True Doctrine. Concordia Theological Quarterly,51, 296-297.
19.Jump up ^ http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/celsus/celsus.htm
20.Jump up ^ "http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/porphyry/hoffmann.htm". Retrieved 2 March 2014.
21.Jump up ^ T.D. Barnes (1973). "Porphyry Against the Christians: Date and the Attribution of Fragments". Journal of Theological Studies 24(2), 424-442.
22.Jump up ^ Berchman, Robert M. Porphyry Against the Christians(2005). E.J. Brill, Leiden, p. x. ISBN 90-04-14811-6
23.Jump up ^ Jennifer Green,"Where Angels Fear to Tread". Ottawa Citizen(April 2007)[2] Retrieved on 2008-17-10
24.Jump up ^ "The Jesus Project" http://www.centerforinquiry.net/jesusproject
25.Jump up ^ "Point of Inquiry-The Jesus Project". Retrieved 19 January 2014.
26.^ Jump up to: a b Csillag, Ron (2008-12-27). "For scholars, a combustible question: Was Christ real?". The Star (Toronto). Retrieved 2010-05-22.
27.Jump up ^ Project-ing Jesus | Gleanings | ChristianityToday.com
28.Jump up ^ "Processing the Project". Retrieved 22 February 2014.
29.Jump up ^ "The Jesus Process". Retrieved 22 February 2014.
30.^ Jump up to: a b "Greg Epstein does not equal Humanism". Brian Flemming's Weblog. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
31.Jump up ^ Lisa Miller (June 18, 2007). "BeliefWatch: Smackdown". Newsweek (LEXISNEXIS REPRINT).
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39.Jump up ^ "Examining the DaVinci Code". Point of Inquiry. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
External links[edit]
The New Oxonian - R. Joseph Hoffmann's Blog
Open Salon Blog
Center for Inquiry
Examination of selected passages from the Celsus
Review of the Porphyry translation


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Bart D. Ehrman

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Bart D. Ehrman
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Born
October 5, 1955 (age 59)
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Nationality
American
Education
BA (1978), MDiv (1981), PhD (1985)
Alma mater
Moody Bible Institute
Wheaton College
Princeton Theological Seminary
Employer
The Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Known for
New Testament authentication and textual variants, historical Jesus, early Christian writings, orthodox corruption of scripture.
Religion
None[1][2][3]
Spouse(s)
Sarah Beckwith
Children
Kelly and Derek
Website
www.bartdehrman.com
Bart D. Ehrman /ərmən/ (born October 5, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar, currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a leading scholar in his field, having written and edited over 25 books, including three college textbooks, and has also achieved acclaim at the popular level, authoring five New York Times bestsellers. Ehrman's work focuses on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity.


Contents  [hide]
1 Education
2 Career
3 Works
4 Bibliography
5 References
6 External links

Education[edit]
Ehrman grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and attended Lawrence High School, where he was on the state champion debate team in 1973. He began studying the Bible and its original languages at Moody Bible Institute, where he earned the school's three-year diploma in 1976.[4] He is a 1978 graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, where he received his bachelor's degree. He received his PhD and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied under Bruce Metzger. He received magna cum laude for both his BA in 1978 and PhD in 1985.[5]
Career[edit]
Ehrman became an Evangelical Christian as a teenager. In his books, he recounts his youthful enthusiasm as a born-again, fundamentalist Christian, certain that God had inspired the wording of the Bible and protected its texts from all error.[4] His desire to understand the original words of the Bible led him to the study of ancient languages and also textual criticism. During his graduate studies, however, he became convinced that there are contradictions and discrepancies in the biblical manuscripts that could not be harmonized or reconciled. He remained a liberal Christian for 15 years but later became an agnostic after struggling with the philosophical problems of evil and suffering.[4]
Ehrman has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. He was the recipient of the 2009 J. W. Pope "Spirit of Inquiry" Teaching Award, the 1993 UNC Undergraduate Student Teaching Award, the 1994 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for excellence in teaching.[5]
Ehrman currently serves as co-editor of the series New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (E. J. Brill), co-editor-in-chief for the journal Vigiliae Christianae, and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs. Ehrman formerly served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, and editor of the monograph series The New Testament in the Greek Fathers (Scholars Press).[5]
Ehrman speaks extensively throughout the United States and has participated in many public debates, including debates with William Lane Craig, Dinesh D'Souza, Mike Licona, Craig A. Evans, Daniel B. Wallace, Richard Swinburne, Peter J. Williams, James White, Darrell Bock and Michael L. Brown.
In 2006 and 2009 he appeared on The Colbert Report,[6][7] as well as The Daily Show,[8] to promote his books Misquoting Jesus, and Jesus, Interrupted (respectively).
Ehrman has appeared on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E, Dateline NBC, CNN, and NPR's Fresh Air and his writings have been featured in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.[9]
Works[edit]
Ehrman has written widely on issues of New Testament and early Christianity at both an academic and popular level, with over 25 books including three college textbooks and five New York Times bestsellers: Misquoting Jesus,[10] Jesus, Interrupted,[11] God's Problem,[12] Forged,[13][14] and How Jesus Became God.[15] Much of his work is on textual criticism and the New Testament. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
In The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Ehrman argues that there was a close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament. He examines how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents. Ehrman is often considered a pioneer in connecting the history of the early church to textual variants within biblical manuscripts and in coining such terms as "Proto-orthodox Christianity".[16]
In Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, Ehrman argues that the historical Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher, and that imminent apocalyptic beliefs are recorded first in the earliest Christian documents (the authentic Pauline epistles, 1st Thessalonians and 1st Corinthians) and then later in Jesus' preaching in the earliest Christian gospels: the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew. Paul's epistles and Jesus' preaching indicate Jesus believed the son of man would soon arrive, and all present powerful nations would fall and God's kingdom would be established on earth. The twelve disciples would each get a throne alongside the son of man and judge each of the twelve Jewish tribes (Mt 19:28). Jesus may have come to believe he was to be the son of man, or else a gospel writer may have put those words and that idea in Jesus' mouth. The early Christians believed Jesus to be the returning son of man. There are no "end times" predicted in the latest, and last gospel, the Gospel of John[17][18] , although critics cite (Jn 5:28-29), (Jn 6:44), and (Jn 14:3), among other passages, to dispute this claim.
In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman introduces New Testament textual criticism. He outlines the development of New Testament manuscripts and the process and cause of manuscript errors in the New Testament.[19][20]
In Jesus, Interrupted, he describes the progress scholars have made in understanding the Bible over the past two hundred years and the results of their study, results which are often unknown among the population at large. In doing so, he highlights the diversity of views found in the New Testament, the existence of forged books in the New Testament which were written in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later, and the later invention of Christian doctrines—such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the Trinity.[21][22]
In Forged, Ehrman posits some New Testament books are literary forgeries and shows how widely forgery was practiced by early Christian writers—and how it was condemned in the ancient world as fraudulent and illicit.[23] His scholarly book, Forgery and Counterforgery, is an advanced look at the practice of forgery in the NT and early Christian literature. It makes a case for considering falsely attributed or pseudepigraphic books in the New Testament and early Christian literature "forgery", looks at why certain New Testament and early Christian works are considered forged, and the broader phenomenon in the Greco-Roman world.[24]
In 2012, Ehrman published Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, defending the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth in contrast to the mythicist theory that Jesus is an entirely mythical or fictitious being.[25]
2014 saw the publication of How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee which examines the historical Jesus, who according to Ehrman neither thought of himself as God nor claimed to be God, and how he came to be thought of as the incarnation of God himself.[26]
Bibliography[edit]
Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels (The New Testament in the Greek Fathers; No. 1). Society of Biblical Literature. 1987. ISBN 1-55540-084-1.
The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 1995. ISBN 0-8028-4824-9.
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2011 [1996]. ISBN 0-19-973978-1.
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. Oxford University Press, USA. 1998. ISBN 0-19-511445-0.
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, USA. 1999. ISBN 0-19-512474-X.
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-514182-2.
The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-515464-9.
The Apostolic Fathers: Volume I. I Clement. II Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-674-99607-0.
The Apostolic Fathers: Volume II. Epistle of Barnabas. Papias and Quadratus. Epistle to Diognetus. The Shepherd of Hermas. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-674-99608-9.
Ehrman, Bart; Jacobs, Andrew S. (2003). Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-515461-4.
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-515462-2.
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-514183-0.
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2004. ISBN 0-19-516123-8.
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. Oxford University Press, USA. 2004. ISBN 0-19-518140-9.
Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. HarperSanFrancisco. 2005. ISBN 0-06-073817-0.
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend. Oxford University Press, USA. 2006. ISBN 0-19-530013-0.
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed. Oxford University Press, USA. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-531460-1.
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer. HarperCollins, USA. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-117397-4.
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). HarperCollins, USA. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-117394-3.
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are. HarperCollins, USA. 2011. ISBN 978-0-06-201261-6.
Ehrman, Bart; Pleše, Zlatko (2011). The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-973210-4.
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. HarperCollins, USA. 2012. ISBN 978-0-06-220460-8.
Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics. Oxford University Press, USA. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-992803-3.
The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction. Oxford University Press, USA. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-530816-7.
The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-933522-0.
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardback). HarperOne, USA. 2014. ISBN 978-0-06-177818-6.
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Paperback). HarperOne, USA. 2015. ISBN 978-0-06-177819-3.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Video on YouTube
2.Jump up ^ John Blake "Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible", CNN, 2009
3.Jump up ^ http://ehrmanblog.org/biblical-views-of-suffering/, Ehrman Blog, 2013
4.^ Jump up to: a b c Ehrman, Bart D.. Misquoting Jesus, HarperSanFrancisco. 2005. ISBN 0-06-073817-0
5.^ Jump up to: a b c Official website Bart Ehrman – Biography
6.Jump up ^ "Bart Ehrman". The Colbert Report. June 20, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "Bart Ehrman". The Colbert Report. April 9, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
8.Jump up ^ "Bart Ehrman". The Daily Show. March 14, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.bartdehrman.com/curriculum.htm
10.Jump up ^ Dwight Garner (April 2, 2006). "Inside the List: The Agnostic". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
11.Jump up ^ Jennifer Schuessler (March 19, 2009). "Inside the List: Honest to Jesus". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
12.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction (March 9, 2008)". The New York Times. March 9, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, April 10th 2011". The New York Times. April 10, 2011. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
14.Jump up ^ Official website Bart Ehrman – Main Page
15.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction (April 13, 2014)". The New York Times. April 13, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
16.Jump up ^ Collins, Raymond F. "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture". Journal of Early Christian Studies.
17.Jump up ^ Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart D. Ehrman (September 23, 1999) ISBN 0195124731 Oxford Univ Press pages
18.Jump up ^ "Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium". Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved May 24, 2104. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
19.Jump up ^ Garner, Dwight. "Inside the List". New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
20.Jump up ^ Gross, Terry. "Bart Ehrman's 'Misquoting Jesus'". NPR. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
21.Jump up ^ Barlow, Rich (May 6, 2009). "Book review: Turning a critical eye to the Bible". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
22.Jump up ^ Blake, John. "Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible". CNN. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
23.Jump up ^ "Half of New Testament forged, Bible scholar says". CNN. 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-17. CNN book review article summarizing Ehrman's claim that much of the New Testament was written as a forgery.
24.Jump up ^ "Forgery and Counterforgery. The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics". Oxford University Press. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ Ehrman, Bart D. (2013-03-20). "Did Jesus Exist?". huffingtonpost.com. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
26.Jump up ^ "How Jesus Became God". NPR.com. NPR. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Bart D. Ehrman
Bart Ehrman's website
Christianity in Antiquity (CIA): The Bart Ehrman Blog
Faculty page, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A Q&A session with Ehrman
Interview with Bart Ehrman on "God's Problem" by ReadTheSpirit.com
Bart Ehrman's page at The Teaching Company


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Bart D. Ehrman

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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman.JPG
Born
October 5, 1955 (age 59)
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Nationality
American
Education
BA (1978), MDiv (1981), PhD (1985)
Alma mater
Moody Bible Institute
Wheaton College
Princeton Theological Seminary
Employer
The Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Known for
New Testament authentication and textual variants, historical Jesus, early Christian writings, orthodox corruption of scripture.
Religion
None[1][2][3]
Spouse(s)
Sarah Beckwith
Children
Kelly and Derek
Website
www.bartdehrman.com
Bart D. Ehrman /ərmən/ (born October 5, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar, currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a leading scholar in his field, having written and edited over 25 books, including three college textbooks, and has also achieved acclaim at the popular level, authoring five New York Times bestsellers. Ehrman's work focuses on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity.


Contents  [hide]
1 Education
2 Career
3 Works
4 Bibliography
5 References
6 External links

Education[edit]
Ehrman grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and attended Lawrence High School, where he was on the state champion debate team in 1973. He began studying the Bible and its original languages at Moody Bible Institute, where he earned the school's three-year diploma in 1976.[4] He is a 1978 graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, where he received his bachelor's degree. He received his PhD and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied under Bruce Metzger. He received magna cum laude for both his BA in 1978 and PhD in 1985.[5]
Career[edit]
Ehrman became an Evangelical Christian as a teenager. In his books, he recounts his youthful enthusiasm as a born-again, fundamentalist Christian, certain that God had inspired the wording of the Bible and protected its texts from all error.[4] His desire to understand the original words of the Bible led him to the study of ancient languages and also textual criticism. During his graduate studies, however, he became convinced that there are contradictions and discrepancies in the biblical manuscripts that could not be harmonized or reconciled. He remained a liberal Christian for 15 years but later became an agnostic after struggling with the philosophical problems of evil and suffering.[4]
Ehrman has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. He was the recipient of the 2009 J. W. Pope "Spirit of Inquiry" Teaching Award, the 1993 UNC Undergraduate Student Teaching Award, the 1994 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for excellence in teaching.[5]
Ehrman currently serves as co-editor of the series New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (E. J. Brill), co-editor-in-chief for the journal Vigiliae Christianae, and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs. Ehrman formerly served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, and editor of the monograph series The New Testament in the Greek Fathers (Scholars Press).[5]
Ehrman speaks extensively throughout the United States and has participated in many public debates, including debates with William Lane Craig, Dinesh D'Souza, Mike Licona, Craig A. Evans, Daniel B. Wallace, Richard Swinburne, Peter J. Williams, James White, Darrell Bock and Michael L. Brown.
In 2006 and 2009 he appeared on The Colbert Report,[6][7] as well as The Daily Show,[8] to promote his books Misquoting Jesus, and Jesus, Interrupted (respectively).
Ehrman has appeared on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E, Dateline NBC, CNN, and NPR's Fresh Air and his writings have been featured in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.[9]
Works[edit]
Ehrman has written widely on issues of New Testament and early Christianity at both an academic and popular level, with over 25 books including three college textbooks and five New York Times bestsellers: Misquoting Jesus,[10] Jesus, Interrupted,[11] God's Problem,[12] Forged,[13][14] and How Jesus Became God.[15] Much of his work is on textual criticism and the New Testament. His books have been translated into 27 languages.
In The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Ehrman argues that there was a close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament. He examines how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the transmission of the documents. Ehrman is often considered a pioneer in connecting the history of the early church to textual variants within biblical manuscripts and in coining such terms as "Proto-orthodox Christianity".[16]
In Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, Ehrman argues that the historical Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher, and that imminent apocalyptic beliefs are recorded first in the earliest Christian documents (the authentic Pauline epistles, 1st Thessalonians and 1st Corinthians) and then later in Jesus' preaching in the earliest Christian gospels: the Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Matthew. Paul's epistles and Jesus' preaching indicate Jesus believed the son of man would soon arrive, and all present powerful nations would fall and God's kingdom would be established on earth. The twelve disciples would each get a throne alongside the son of man and judge each of the twelve Jewish tribes (Mt 19:28). Jesus may have come to believe he was to be the son of man, or else a gospel writer may have put those words and that idea in Jesus' mouth. The early Christians believed Jesus to be the returning son of man. There are no "end times" predicted in the latest, and last gospel, the Gospel of John[17][18] , although critics cite (Jn 5:28-29), (Jn 6:44), and (Jn 14:3), among other passages, to dispute this claim.
In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman introduces New Testament textual criticism. He outlines the development of New Testament manuscripts and the process and cause of manuscript errors in the New Testament.[19][20]
In Jesus, Interrupted, he describes the progress scholars have made in understanding the Bible over the past two hundred years and the results of their study, results which are often unknown among the population at large. In doing so, he highlights the diversity of views found in the New Testament, the existence of forged books in the New Testament which were written in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later, and the later invention of Christian doctrines—such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the Trinity.[21][22]
In Forged, Ehrman posits some New Testament books are literary forgeries and shows how widely forgery was practiced by early Christian writers—and how it was condemned in the ancient world as fraudulent and illicit.[23] His scholarly book, Forgery and Counterforgery, is an advanced look at the practice of forgery in the NT and early Christian literature. It makes a case for considering falsely attributed or pseudepigraphic books in the New Testament and early Christian literature "forgery", looks at why certain New Testament and early Christian works are considered forged, and the broader phenomenon in the Greco-Roman world.[24]
In 2012, Ehrman published Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, defending the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth in contrast to the mythicist theory that Jesus is an entirely mythical or fictitious being.[25]
2014 saw the publication of How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee which examines the historical Jesus, who according to Ehrman neither thought of himself as God nor claimed to be God, and how he came to be thought of as the incarnation of God himself.[26]
Bibliography[edit]
Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels (The New Testament in the Greek Fathers; No. 1). Society of Biblical Literature. 1987. ISBN 1-55540-084-1.
The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 1995. ISBN 0-8028-4824-9.
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2011 [1996]. ISBN 0-19-973978-1.
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. Oxford University Press, USA. 1998. ISBN 0-19-511445-0.
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. Oxford University Press, USA. 1999. ISBN 0-19-512474-X.
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-514182-2.
The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-515464-9.
The Apostolic Fathers: Volume I. I Clement. II Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-674-99607-0.
The Apostolic Fathers: Volume II. Epistle of Barnabas. Papias and Quadratus. Epistle to Diognetus. The Shepherd of Hermas. Harvard University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-674-99608-9.
Ehrman, Bart; Jacobs, Andrew S. (2003). Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-515461-4.
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-515462-2.
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. Oxford University Press, USA. 2003. ISBN 0-19-514183-0.
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2004. ISBN 0-19-516123-8.
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. Oxford University Press, USA. 2004. ISBN 0-19-518140-9.
Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-516667-1.
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. HarperSanFrancisco. 2005. ISBN 0-06-073817-0.
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend. Oxford University Press, USA. 2006. ISBN 0-19-530013-0.
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed. Oxford University Press, USA. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-531460-1.
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer. HarperCollins, USA. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-117397-4.
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them). HarperCollins, USA. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-117394-3.
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are. HarperCollins, USA. 2011. ISBN 978-0-06-201261-6.
Ehrman, Bart; Pleše, Zlatko (2011). The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-973210-4.
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. HarperCollins, USA. 2012. ISBN 978-0-06-220460-8.
Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics. Oxford University Press, USA. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-992803-3.
The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction. Oxford University Press, USA. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-530816-7.
The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-933522-0.
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardback). HarperOne, USA. 2014. ISBN 978-0-06-177818-6.
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Paperback). HarperOne, USA. 2015. ISBN 978-0-06-177819-3.
References[edit]
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2.Jump up ^ John Blake "Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible", CNN, 2009
3.Jump up ^ http://ehrmanblog.org/biblical-views-of-suffering/, Ehrman Blog, 2013
4.^ Jump up to: a b c Ehrman, Bart D.. Misquoting Jesus, HarperSanFrancisco. 2005. ISBN 0-06-073817-0
5.^ Jump up to: a b c Official website Bart Ehrman – Biography
6.Jump up ^ "Bart Ehrman". The Colbert Report. June 20, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
7.Jump up ^ "Bart Ehrman". The Colbert Report. April 9, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
8.Jump up ^ "Bart Ehrman". The Daily Show. March 14, 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
9.Jump up ^ http://www.bartdehrman.com/curriculum.htm
10.Jump up ^ Dwight Garner (April 2, 2006). "Inside the List: The Agnostic". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
11.Jump up ^ Jennifer Schuessler (March 19, 2009). "Inside the List: Honest to Jesus". The New York Times. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
12.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction (March 9, 2008)". The New York Times. March 9, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
13.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction: Sunday, April 10th 2011". The New York Times. April 10, 2011. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
14.Jump up ^ Official website Bart Ehrman – Main Page
15.Jump up ^ "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction (April 13, 2014)". The New York Times. April 13, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
16.Jump up ^ Collins, Raymond F. "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture". Journal of Early Christian Studies.
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18.Jump up ^ "Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium". Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved May 24, 2104. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
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20.Jump up ^ Gross, Terry. "Bart Ehrman's 'Misquoting Jesus'". NPR. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
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23.Jump up ^ "Half of New Testament forged, Bible scholar says". CNN. 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-17. CNN book review article summarizing Ehrman's claim that much of the New Testament was written as a forgery.
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25.Jump up ^ Ehrman, Bart D. (2013-03-20). "Did Jesus Exist?". huffingtonpost.com. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
26.Jump up ^ "How Jesus Became God". NPR.com. NPR. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
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Interview with Bart Ehrman on "God's Problem" by ReadTheSpirit.com
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