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Audio CDs
Fall 2006
Archaeology and the Magic of Place
Jonathan L. Reed
1 audio CD, 80 minutes, $12.50
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Archaeological excavations in and around Galilee have called into question many older assumptions about the location of Jesus' ministry, as well as Jesus' place in the Galilean social pyramid. This illustrated lecture calls for a new characterization of Jesus' Galilee, and probes the extent to which Jesus, his first followers, and the gospels themselves can be put into their proper place.
Jonathan L. Reed teaches New Testament at the University of La Verne, California. The senior historical consultant for the National Geographic Channel series on Jesus and Archaeology, he has excavated at Capernaum and Sepphoris, and is the author of Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus (2000), and co-author (with John Dominic Crossan) of Excavating Jesus (2002) and In Search of Paul (2005).
Mary, Judas, and Other Maverick Gospels
Charles W. Hedrick
Set of 4 audio CDs, app. four hours, $35.00
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At least thirty-four gospels were composed in the first and second centuries. Some we only know by name. Those that have survived offer different perspectives on Jesus of Nazareth. In the second century, one wing of the many groups tracing their origins to Jesus designated four gospels as authoritative for faith. These Christians styled themselves as "orthodox"—meaning their confession was "right." The other gospels were discredited, and the groups using these "maverick" gospels were described as "heretics"—meaning their confession was "warped," and hence wrong. But were these gospels "warped"? This workshop will focus on the gospels of Mary, Judas and Secret Mark, assessing their significance for understanding Christian origins.
Charles W. Hedrick is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. A member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices, he is the author of several books, including The Gospel of the Savior (with Paul Mirecki, 1999).
Orality, Storytelling, and Mark
Joanna Dewey
Set of 4 audio CDs, app. four hours, $35.00
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Scholars estimate that only five percent of the overall population in Jesus' day were literate. Stories about Jesus traveled orally which made a huge difference in how those stories were shaped, performed, and remembered, and in what was considered significant. This workshop will examine the characteristics of first century media. Using Mark's gospel as a test case, it will look at what the oral nature of first-century culture suggests about interpreting Mark today. Further, since storytelling was crucial to performing and remembering (and expanding) traditions, we will do some storytelling ourselves. "Artemisia," a late first-century gentile woman, will perform her version of Mark's gospel.
Joanna Dewey is the Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr. Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A specialist in the Gospel of Mark, orality studies, and feminist approaches to the New Testament, she is the author of several books, including Mark as Story (with David Rhoads, 1999).