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Mark Goodacre's academic blog. Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University, in the Religious Studies Department. Visit my homepage, follow me on twitter, or contact me by email.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity Conference this week!

Speaking of Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne, I should mention that the conference on Criteria in Historical Jesus research is at hand. It ...

Interview with me on The Jesus Blog

Over on their thriving new Jesus Blog , Anthony Le Donne and Chris Keith have posted an interview with me in four parts. It ranges from His...

Friday, September 28, 2012

Christian Askeland on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife: Forgery?

This short video presentation from Christian Askeland on the question of the authenticity of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife fragment deserv...

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Thomas and the Gospels out in the UK too

Thanks to Todd Brewer for this pic proving that my Thomas and the Gospels is now out in the UK too! It has a slightly different title i...

Revised versions of Francis Watson's Articles on the Jesus Wife Fragment

I am grateful to Francis Watson for sending over revised and updated versions of his short articles on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife fragme...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

My new book has arrived!

Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Gospels (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012) arrived today! A Fed Ex m...

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: Latest News

When I was blogging about this last Thursday, just a couple of days after the announcement of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife , I commented th...

Monday, September 24, 2012

Gospel of Jesus' Wife: the last line is also from Thomas

Francis Watson's essay, The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: How a Fake Gospel Fragment was Composed , argues, I think persuasively, that the ...

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Francis Watson, Addendum: The End of the Line?

Prof. Francis Watson has written another piece on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife which I am happy to post here: Addendum: The End of the...

Friday, September 21, 2012

Francis Watson's Introduction and Summary on the composition of a fake Gospel-fragment

I am grateful to Prof. Francis Watson for following up his earlier article, The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: How a fake Gospel-Fragment was co...

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife: How a fake Gospel-Fragment was composed, by Francis Watson

I would like to thank Francis Watson , Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University for the opportunity to publ...

Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Gospel of Jesus' Wife: The Story is Moving Fast!

The internet age really has changed the way that news stories like this develop, for good and for bad. It's only 48 hours since I last ...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Gospel of Jesus' Wife

You know when it's a big breaking news story when your phone is pinging all day with people asking, "Hey, have you heard about this...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Jesus Blog - Le Donne and Keith

I've been enjoying the new blog from Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne. Its focus is on historical Jesus research and it intersects in...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Conference on Douglas Campbell's work on Paul

Spotted this over on Jim West's blog : Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul A Critical Engagement with Douglas Campbell’s ...

Monday, September 10, 2012

The Bible in the Public Square Conference

The Bible in the Public Square conference is now well underway here at Duke and so far it has been an excellent event, with a lively and ve...

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Private Eye on the Telegraph's plagiarized obituary of Marvin Meyer

This week's Private Eye (issue 1322, for 7 September 2012) has a feature on The Telegraph 's plagiarized obituary of Marvin Meyer ...

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Nine years old today!

Happy blogiversary to me! The NT Blog is nine years old today. The first blog post , back when it was called the NT Gateway Weblog, was on...

August Biblioblog Carnival

Jim West has put together an excellent round-up of all the blogging posts of interest for the month of August, It’s The August Biblioblog C...

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Plagiarism in the Telegraph's obituary of Marvin Meyer

I commented yesterday on the error-laden obituary of Marvin Meyer in The Telegraph . It turns out that the errors are not the worst of it...

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