AFB B-Sides: Jesus-Messiah Sutra
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
View ArticleAFB B-Sides: Sibylline Oracles
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
View ArticleAFB B-Sides: Letters of Christ and Abgar
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
View ArticleAFB B-Sides: Dormition of Mary
Apocrypha for Beginners is meant to cover many representative works, but I was only able to include so many. There are, of course, myriad more. This is part of a series of “B-sides”: posts about...
View ArticleFictionality and the Protevangelium of James
I recently had the honor of participating in a Primary Text Lab on the Protevangelium of James hosted by The Brane Collective. It was a great seasonally appropriate event and a lot of fun to think...
View ArticleCanonizing Star Wars
I started drafting this piece a while back, intending to publish it somewhere, but then various things happened and I never finished it up. With the release of the first episode of The Book of Boba...
View ArticleResponse to The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha
Today I had the honor and pleasure of presenting a review response to the recently published book The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha, edited by Gerbern S. Oegema (2021), as part of a Virtual Book...
View ArticleA Year in the Life of Apocrypha for Beginners
One year ago today my book Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible was officially released. Over the past year, I have been so happy to see the book...
View ArticleAn Annotated Bibliography for Apocrypha for Beginners
In my book Apocrypha for Beginners, I introduced biblical apocrypha and highlighted a variety of representative works. But this book is only a beginning. This post contains useful resources—some of...
View ArticleA Response to the New Good News about Jesus’s Childhood
Have you heard the NEW Good News? Back in the day, when Jesus was still just a guy people were figuring out what to do with, the word “gospel” meant something like “good news.” Just this week, all...
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