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Adams, Doug

• Wine and Humor at Cana    5:6

Arav, Rami and John J. Rousseau

• Elusive Bethsaida Recovered    4:1

Arnal, William

• Review of Paula Fredriksen, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews     14:2

Barr, David L.

• Tales of the End    11:1

Bater, Robert B.

• Odyssey: Being There    9:3–4

Batson, David

• Communal Care and the Growth of Early Christianity    18:4

Bessler-Northcutt, Joe

• Religion: Mend It, Don't End It — A Review of Sam Harris, The End of Faith   18:6

Beutner, Edward F.

• The Art of Translation: Traduttore Traditore, Translators and Traitors    3:1
• The Burglar Who Makes Appointsments   17:6
• Comedy with a Tragic Turn: The Dishonest Manager   16:2
• How Jesus Took the gist from Liturgist    12:3
• Jesus after Hamlet   16:1
• JFK: A Moving Picture    5:1
• The 'Lust' Temptation of Christ    2:2

Borg, Marcus J.

• Christ the Man Update: The Toronto Report    3:1
• Jesus and the Buddha    10:6
• Jesus Seminar at Work: Making the Bible an Open Book    7:6
• Jesus Seminar at Work: The Making of The Five Gospels    7:5
• Jesus: A Sketch    7:3
• Odyssey: Me and Jesus—The Journey Home    6:4
• Portraits of Jesus: Albert Schweitzer's View on Jesus and the End of the World    3:3
• Portraits of Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss: Miracle and Myth    4:3
• Portraits of Jesus: Reimarus and the Beginning of the Quest    4:6
• The Treasure in Earthen Vessels    3:4

Braxton, Don

• Evolution, Monotheism, and Violence   17:6

Butcher, John Beverly

• Letter to the Editor: The Church of the Open Canon Exists    5:6
• Seeking the Wisdom of Jesus    16:4

Butts, James R.

• Scholars Version: A New Translation    2:2

Carter, David F.

• The Passing Scene: National Bible Week    2:6
• Three Seminars with a Common Goal    3:4

Cassuto, Leonard

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Meets John Calvin    5:2

Chilton, Bruce

• Odyssey: Finding a Way    7:5
• Response to Verhoeven: Escaping the Sterile    4:1

Corley, Kathleen E.

• Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Salome    7:5
• Review: The Passion of the Christ: Bad History and Bad Theology   17:1

Cotes, Alison

• The Not-So-Great Debate    12:1

Crossan, John Dominic

• Early Christian Feminism: The Untold Story    3:3
• Odyssey: Almost the Whole Truth    6:5
• The Passion Narrative    9:5–6
• Portraits of Jesus: Jesus as a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant    4:2

Cupitt, Don

• Christianity after the Church    13:6
• Statement in anticipation of Spring 2004 meeting   16:1
• The Wandering Philosopher    14:1

Daniels, Jon B.

• The Egerton Gospel    4:5

Davies, Stevan L.

• Whom Jesus Healed and How    6:2

Dewey, Arthur J.

• Jesus Seminar Black Lists    3:3
• Reminting Paul    18:2
• Response to Verhoeven: Facts and Fancies    4:1
• The Truth That Is in Jesus    16:4
• What Do You Make of This? Jesus as a Peasant Artisan    11:6

Dewey, Arthur J. and Robert W. Funk

• Mark and Street Lingo    3:5

Duling, Dennis C.

• Mark Who?    3:5

Eddy, Dick

• The Jesus Seminar: Work in Progress    5:6

Elliott, John H.

• The Social Facets Toronto Agenda    2:4

Elliott, Susan (Elli)

• Wrestling with the Cross: A Sermon   17:4

Endres, John C., S. J., et al.

• Duplicate Histories: A New Study Instrument for the Hebrew Bible    3:3

Fortna, Robert T.

• The Gospel of John and the Historical Jesus    8:5–6

Frey, Janice

• The Codex of the Gospel of Jesus    14:2

Funk, Robert W.

• Obituary   18:5
• Testimonials    18:6
• Life & Legacy    19:2
   
• An Advocate for Religious Literacy    2:5
• Bookshelf: The Resurrection of Jesus    8:1
• Book Review - Richard Holloway, Godless Morality   15:4
• Call for a Canon Council    6:3
• The Coming Radical Reformation    11:4
• Criteria for Determining the Authentic Sayings of Jesus    3:6
• Demons: Identity and Worldview    5:3
• Don't Look for Jesus on Clouds of Glory    2:3
• Do the Gospels Contain Eyewitness Reports?   17:2
• The Emerging Jesus    2:6
• The Four-Year Political Circus: Can You Fool All the People All the Time?    5:4
• From the Publisher: Tongues of the Wise    6:6
• God and the Emperor in Waco    6:3
• The Gospel of Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels    6:6
• Hansel and Gretel, The Lone Ranger, and The Lord of the Rings    5:5
• How Jesus Became God    4:6
• The Jesus Seminar on the Road in New Zealand   11:5
• In the Heart of America: Redeemer Figures and Mythic Spaces    3:4
• The Incredible Creed    10:3–4
• Jesus and the Apocalypse    5:2
• Jesus as Itinerant Sage: True or False    14:2
• The Jesus That Was    5:6
• The Lord's Prayer: Does It Go Back to Jesus?    2:1
• Milestones in the Quest for the Historical Jesus    14:4
• A New Blass-Debrunner-Funk    2:5
• Profiles of Jesus: A Protocol    8:5–6
• Profiles of Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth—A Glimpse    9:1–2
• Report: Jesus Seminar—Healings Spring 1993 voting results    6:2
• The Resurrection of Jesus: Reports and Stories    7:4
• Rewards are Instrinsic    15:2
• Rules of Oral Evidence: Determining the Authentic Sayings of Jesus    4:2
• Scholars Version: Calling a Spade a Spade    3:5
• Scholars Version: Translator's Guidelines    2:5
• The Sunday Morning Experience: A Codicil to Robert Price 16:6
• Time Marches On, Part 1    2:2
• Time Marches On, Part 2    2:3
• Translation Notes    4:3
• Twenty-one Theses and Notes    11:4
• A War of Worlds    14:5
• What Books Belong to the Bible?    2:5
• What Jesus Is Emerging?    2:4
• Where Have All the Students Gone?    3:2

Funk, Robert W. and Dewey, Arthur J.

• Mark and Street Lingo    3:5

Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar

• The First Storytellers    11:2

Galston, David

• Historical Jesus and the New Nicaea    15:3
• Postmodernism, the Historical Jesus, and the Church    18:5
• Where is Fundamentalism Leading Us?    16:3

Geering, Lloyd

• Christianity Faces the New Millennium    12:1
• Christianity Minus Theism    14:2
• Holy Communion    16:4
• How Did Jesus Become God and Why    11:5
• Who Owns the Holy Land: The Jewish Perspective    15:1
• Who Owns the Holy Land: The Palestinian Perpective    15:2
• Who Owns the Holy Land: The British Responsibility    15:3
• Who Owns the Holy Land: Who Resolves the Conflict    15:4
• Is Christianity Going Anywhere? Part 1. Christianity at the Crossroads   17:2
• Is Christianity Going Anywhere? Part 2. Excavating Jesus   17:3
• Is Christianity Going Anywhere? Part 3. The Recovery of Jesus' Teaching   17:4
• Is Christianity Going Anywhere? Part 4. The Diverse Futures of Christianity   17:5

Hakkinen, Sakari

• The Ebionites    18:5

Harris, Stephen

• Jesus and Family Values    6:1

Hedrick, Charles W.

• Four Shibboleths of Southern Baptist Orthodoxy    4:3
• Gnosticism: The Religion of the Alien God    3:6
• Making Oxen Out of Unicorns    18:4
• The Recovery of a New Ancient Gospel    12:2
• Secret Mark: New Photographs, New Witnesses   13:5

Hill, Jack

• Was Jesus Green    15:5

Hills, Julian V.

• The Creed: A Pledge of Allegiance    4:2

Holloway, Richard

• Charge to the Edinburgh Synod    13:6
• Review of Holloway, Godless Morality by Robert Funk   15:4

Hoover, Roy W.

• Answering the Critics    8:5–6
• The Clash of Civilizations    14:5
• Folio Bible: Centurions in the Lukan Writings    3:1
• Folio Bible: Introduction to Sample Pages    3:1
• A Gift of Christmas Clarity    10:6
• Profiles of Jesus:The Jesus of History—A Profile in Courage    9:3–4
• How the Canon Was Determined    5:1
• Response to Verhoeven: Jesus, A Wily Political Operative?    4:1
• The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus    7:1
• Tradition and Faith in a New Era   17:1
• Translating Paul's Jargon    18:1
• The Work of the Jesus Seminar    9:5–6

Hoover, Roy W. et al.

• Folio Bible: The Centurion at Capernaum: Luke    7:1

Jackson, Glenna

• Choosing Hymns   17:1

Jacobson, Arland

• Which Was the First Gospel?    6:1
• Why I Belong to the Jesus Seminar    2:4

Jenks, Gregory

• What Did Paul Know About Jesus    12:1

Jesus Seminar

• Report from the Jesus Seminar—Synoptics, Thomas, Southern Baptists    3:6
• Fall 1990: Synoptics, Thomas, Southern Baptists    3:6
• Fall 1991: Jesus and John the Baptist    4:6
• Fall 1993: Boundaries of the Bible, Jesus' Healings & Exorcisms    7:1
• Fall 1994: Birth and Family of Jesus    7:6
• Fall 1995: The Death of Jesus    8:3–4
• Once & Future Faith Voting Results   14:3
• Spring 1991: John 3:16–21, Lord's Prayer, Parables    4:2
• Spring 1992: John the Baptist, the Apocalypse    5:2
• Spring 1993: Healings    6:2
• Spring 1994: Jesus at Table    7:2
• Spring 1995: The Resurrection    8:2

Johnson, Jeanette

• Biblical Illiteracy and Faith    4:6

Josephus, Flavius

• Eleazar the Exorcist    5:2

Kasper, James

• The Stole of the Jesus Seminar Order of Merit    16:5

Kea, Perry V.

• Bookshelf: The Unknown Gospels    3:6
• Finding a Voice for the Black Sayings    8:5–6
• Listening for Luke's Voice    10:5
• New Testament Literary Genres    6:4
• The Road to the Jesus Seminar    18:1

King, Karen L.

• A Gnostic Story: The Triple Descent of the Savior    3:6
• Mary Magdala   16:5
• Mary of Magdala   10:3–4
• What Is Gnosticism?    4:3
• Who Are the Gnostics?    4:4

Kloppenborg Verbin, John S.

• Beyond Story in Search of History    14:1
• Mark and the Synoptic Sayings Gospel    3:5
• Koester, Helmut and Stephen J. Patterson
• Secret Mark    4:3

Large, Ron

• American Apocalyptic    4:5
• Making Enemies    3:2

Laughlin, Paul Alan

• The Once and Future Christ of Faith    18:2
• Putting the Historical Jesus in His Place, Part 1     19:1
• Putting the Historical Jesus in His Place, Part 2     19:3

Leaves, Nigel

• The God Problem    18:3

Linden, William M.

• The Pearl, the Treasure the Fool, and the Cross: A Response

Lowe, Sanford

• The Significance of the Work of the Jesus Seminar for Judaism    5:4

Luedemann, Gerd

• The Life of Jesus: A Brief Assessment    16:5
• Paul - An Obituary

Mack-Fisher, Loren R.

• The Art of Translation: Dust or Mud?    3:1
• The Art of Translation: The Man with No Name    3:2
• Introduction to Genesis Parallels: Sample Pages    2:6
• A Response to Time    2:1

McClure, Walter

• The New Physics    15:3

McCreery, David

• The Search for Historical Israel    15:6

McGaughy, Lane C.

• Infancy Narratives in the Ancient World    5:5
• Jesus' Parables and the Fiction of the Kingdom    3:4
• The Search for the Historical Jesus: Why Start with the Sayings?    9:5–6
• Space or Place? Desert or Pasture?    3:5

McMillan, James W.

• Medical Illiteracy and Scholarly Integrity    2:2

Milavec, Aaron

• The Didache    18:3

Miller, Robert J.

• Back to Basics: A Primer on Historical Method    11:6
• The Complete Gospels: An Introduction    4:6
• Did Jesus Fulfill Prophecy? Probing Matthew's Gospel   16:2
• The Dark Side of Religion    14:5
• The Pearl, the Treasure, the Fool and the Cross    18:6
• Literal Incarnation or Universal Love? Virgin Birth, Incarnation and Atonement   17:3
• Jesus Seminar Black Lists    3:3
• More on the Canon Question    3:2
• The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics: What Is Really at Stake?    10:1–2
• Scholarly Presuppositions    14:4
• Thinking Straight about the Virgin Birth    14:6

Moredock, Will

• Unitarian Universalists and the Jesus Seminar    11:1

Moxnes, Halvor

• Lost in Translation: What Happened to the Eunuchs in Matthew 19:12?   17:6

Nelson, Culver H.

• From the Editor: Ecumenism of Truth    7:1
• From the Editor: The Fine Line between Myth and Reality    7:3
• Jesus' Divinity    4:2
• Westar News: Bridging the Gap Between Town and Gown    5:5
• Westar News: Canon and Controversy    6:3
• Westar News: Jesus' Family and The Fourth R    6:1

Norris, Kathleen

• Fundamentalism Within and Without    3:2

Patterson, Stephen J.

• The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus    6:3
• In the Beginning Was Talk    5:3
• The Menu Has Been Revised    4:4
• Outside the Bible: Can It Be Jesus?    3:3

Patterson, Stephen J. and Helmut Koester

• Secret Mark    4:3

Polkow, Dennis

• Searching for Jesus in the Holy Land    11:3

Price, Robert M.

• Book Review: The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer    10:3–4
• The Da Vinci Fraud    17:1
• The Future of Religion   16:1
• The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible    16:3
• In the Volume of the Book   17:5
• Iron John the Baptist   17:4
• Jesus in Tibet: A Modern Myth    14:3
• Suspension of Disbelief     16:6
• Tabloid Testament    12:3

Primavesi, Anne

• The Christian Gene    14:3

Robinson, James M.

• What Jesus Had to Say    8:5–6

Rock, Robert M.

• Letter from a Former Outsider    5:1

Rohrbaugh, Richard L.

• Church Canon or Scholars' Canon?    2:6
• Folio Bible: The Patronage System in Roman Palestine    3:1

Rousseau, John J. and Rami Arav

• Elusive Bethsaida Recovered    4:1

Schmidt, Daryl D.

• The Art of Translation: Congratulations, You Poor!    3:2
• Bookmaking in the Ancient World    9:1–2
• Braveheart Does the Stations of the Cross: Mel Gibson's 12-Step Program   17:2
• Classical Literacy and the Decay of English Grammar    3:4
• Irony in Mark's Gospel    3:5
• Making Sense of Paul    15:2
• Mark: A Synoptic and Wartime Gospel    3:5
• Odyssey: Fundamentally Pluralistic    8:3–4
• Translating Paul    18:3
• The Witness of Gospel Fragments    9:1–2
• The Year of Mark    3:5

Schwartz, Bob

• Fiction or Nonfiction?    10:5

Schweitzer-Mordecai, Ruth

• The Jesus Intervention    8:3–4

Scott, Bernard Brandon

• Did Jesus Speak Greek?    15:6
• Father Knows Best: Fundamentalism and our Apocalyptic Future     16:6
• Living in a Re-Imagined World    14:5
• Profiles of Jesus: The Reapparance of Parables    10:1–2
• On the Road Again   16:2

Sellew, Philip

• Teaching Scenes in Mark: Jesus Explains the Mysteries of His Teaching    3:5

Sheehan, Thomas

• The Resurrection    8:2
• How Did Easter Originally Happen    14:4

Short, Mike

• Advent Meditations   17:5
• E=MC²   17:3

Shorto, Russell

• Who Put the Hell in Hellenism? A Non-Scholar Takes the Historical Jesus on the Road    10:5

Shurden, Walter B.

• The Southern Baptist Controversy    4:4

Smith, Mahlon H.

• By Whose Authority?    5:3
• Did That Really Happen?    4:4
• For Those Who Cast Stones: A Reply to Critics of the Jesus Seminar    2:3
• Healers Contemporary with Jesus    6:1
• Impose your imperial rule    14:1
• In Quest of Insight    15:4
• Jesus and Demons: Comparative Texts    5:3
• Jesus and Demons: Gospel Stories    5:3
• Jesus, M.D.?    6:1
• Portraits of Jesus: Rudolf Bultmann and Jesus as the Word    3:6
• Q: Black by Consensus    2:5
• Westar News: On the Agenda, Spring 1992 meeting    4:6

Spong, John Shelby

• Did Christians Invent Judas?    7:2
• J.A.T.Robinson, The Mentor Who Shaped My Ministry    15:5
• Twelve Theses & a Call for a New Reformation    11:4

Stoneman, Donnell

• Paul Verhoeven: Film Maker    3:1

Tarkki, Jarmo

• The Paradox of Liberal Religion    18:4

Tatum, W. Barnes

• Book Review: The Jewish Jesus    14:1
• Bookshelf: Religious Literacy, Basic Books    5:4
• Bookshelf: Religious Literacy, Basic Books Part II    5:5
• Bookshelf: Religious Literacy, Basic Books Part III    5:6
• Bookshelf: Reynolds Price, Raymond Brown, Richard Horsley    4:5
• Bookshelf: The Christian Origins of Anti-Semitism    8:3–4
• Jesus at the Movies    11:1
• A Review of Scorsese's Last Temptation    2:3
• The Second Coming of the Dead Sea Scrolls    6:5
• Understanding the Diverse Dimension of Life and Culture Called Religion    3:3
• Who Was John the Baptizer?    7:1

Taussig, Hal

• Behind and Before the Lord's Prayer    11:3
• Grassroots Progressive Christianity     19:3

Templeton, David

• Guilt Trip: Robert Funk weighs in on ugly "Passion   17:1

Tyson, Joseph B.

• Why Dates Matter    18:2

Van Hagen, John

From Paralyzing Trauma to New Identity: The Development of Second-Century Christianity     19:1

Veitch, James

• Defending Nicea: The Historical Jesus of N.T. Wright    11:2
• The Geering Story    11:5
• On the New Reformation    11:4
• Spotlight on St. Paul    12:2
• Terrorism in Perspective    14:6

Verhoeven, Paul

• The First Will Be First    16:3
• Update: Christ the Man    4:1

White, John L.

• Book Review: Authority in the Roman Catholic Church by Russer    5:2
• Paul: A New Perspective    6:6

Wilson, J. Christian

• Bookshelf: The Dead Sea Scrolls    4:1

Williams, Patricia

• The Evolution of Good and Evil    18:1
• Illuminating Black Boxes     19:1

Wink, Walter

• The Bombing of America    14:5
• Nonviolence for the Violent    14:5
• Odyssey: Write What You See    7:3

Wyrick, Jim

• An Associate's Reaction to the Scholars Version of Mark    3:5
• Why Am I Here?    4:2

Uncredited

• Creeds Questions and Votes    4:2
• Genesis Parallels: Sample Pages    2:6
• Gospel of John: Black List    3:6
• Gospel of Thomas Black List    2:6
• Gospel of Thomas: Prior Votes Ready to Print    2:6
• Jesus and Demons: Biblical and Other Lore    5:3
• Jesus the Social Gadfly    2:5
• Letter from Kentucky    11:2
• Scholars Version: Mark    1:40–2:283:5
• Survey: What Gospels to Include in Scholars Version?    2:5
   

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