JHC - Index of Back Issues

JHC 9/1 (Spring 2002)

Valerie Abrahamsen

"The Orante and the Goddess in the Roman Catacombs "

Stephen Curkpatrick

"The Spectre of Stephen and the Haunting of Acts"

Theodore P. Letis

"From Lower Criticism to Higher Criticism: Joseph Priestley and the Use of Conjectural Emendation"

Hector Avalos

"The Ancient Near East in Modern Science Fiction: Zecharia Sitchin’s The 12th Planet as Case Study"

Jacob Neusner

"The Academic Study of Religion"

Jay Raskin

"A Discovery, The Crucified, Simon, Zealots, and Essenes"

J.C. O’Neill

"Who Killed Whom (4Q285) Without the Camp (Heb 13:12-13)?"

JHC 8/2 (Fall 2001)

Peter Carls

"Identifying Syzgos, Euodia, and Syntyche, Philippians 4:2f"

Charles Ensminger

"Paul the Stigmatic"

Jacob Neusner

"How Judaism Reads the Bible"

Jeffery Jay Lowder

"Historical Evidence and the Empty Tomb Story: A Reply to William Lane Craig"

Robert M. Price

"Heavenly Bridegrooms: The Sex Acts of the Apostles"

Richard Carrier

"The Guarded Tomb of Jesus and Daniel in the Lion’s Den: An Argument for the Plausibility of Theft"

JHC 8/1 (Spring 2001)

Rod Blackhirst

"The Exile of Jesus to Damascus in the Medieval Gospel of Barnabas"

Hector Avalos

"Rubel Shelly’s Prepare to Answer as a Case Study in Current Christian Apologetics"

G. A. Wells

"Pentacostal Mutterings and Evangelical Blandishments"

Scott Morschauser

"Revolutionary Economics? Once Again, the Parable of the Steward"

Miles Fowler

"City on a Hill: An Interpretation of Matt 5:14b/Gthom. 32 "

Stuart G. Waugh

"ETERON vs. PLÊSION: What’s in a Word? An Analysis of the Canonical and Marcionite Versions of Romans 13:8"

William P. Killen

"The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious. A Reply to The Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot"

JHC 7/2 (Fall 2000)

Hermann Detering

"The Synoptic Apocalypse (Mark 13/par): A Document from the Time of Bar Kochba"

Wayne William Blakeley

""Flavians, Celts, and Christians: A Study of the Earliest Christianity in the British Isles"

Cliff Carrington

"The Peregrinations of Paul"

Michael Conley

"St. Ignatius: The Insidious Pragmatism of the Episkopoi of Rome and the Rise of Christianity"

J. C. O'Neill

"The Death of the Teacher of Righteousness in Hebrews 13:12-23"

JHC 7/1 (Spring 2000)

R. Blackhirst

"Barnabas and the Gospels: Was There an Early Gospel of Barnabas?"

Günter Lüling

"A New Paradigm for the Rise of Islam and its Consequences for a New Paradigm for the History of Israel"

Jacob Neusner

"History, Time, and Paradigm in Scripture and in Judaism"

James Riley Strange

"Urbach's 'Sages' After Thirty Years"

Barbara Thiering

"From Qumran to Nag Hammadi, Noah, Melchisedek, and Calendar"

Matthew C. Williams

"The Owen Hypothesis: An Essay Showing That it was Henry Owen Who First Formulated the So-called 'Griesbach Hypothesis'"

JHC 6/2 (Fall 1999)

J.Duncan M. Derrett

"St. John's Jesus and the Buddah"

James Riley Strange

"Defining Judaism in its Classical Age: What is at Stake in the Academic Study of Religion"

James Veitch

"The Jesus Seminar: What it Is and What it Isn't and Why it Matters"

George A. Wells

"Doing Without Jesus: Some Aspects of Second-Century Christianity"

Earl Doherty

"The Puzzling Figure of Jesus in John Dominic Crossan's Birth of Christianity: A Critical Discussion"

Thomas Whittakar

"An Exposition of Van Manen's Analysis of the Epistle to the Romans"

JHC 6/1 (Spring 1999)

Hermann Patsch: "The Fear of Deutero-Paulinism: The Reception of Friedrich Schleiermacher's 'Critical Open Letter' Concerning 1 Timothy"
Michael Livingston: "The Seven: Hebrews, Hellenists, and Heptines"
J.C. O'Neill: "Jesus in Hebrews"
R. Blackhirst: "The Temptation in the Wilderness in the Medieval Gospel of Barnabas"
Robert M. Price: "An Alternate Redaction of Charles Hedrick's Translation of The Gospel of the Savior, with Some Material Conjecturally Restored"
G.A. van den Bergh van Eysigna: "The Spuriousness of the So-called Pauline Epistles: Exemplified by the Epistle to the Galatians"

JHC 5/2 (Fall 1998)

Robert M. Price: "Docetic Epiphanies: A Structural Analysis of the Apocryphal Acts"
Valerie Abrahamsen: "The Jesus Myth According to Barbara Walker"
Justin J. Meggitt: "Artemidrous and the Johannine Crucifixion"
Eduard Verhoef: "Suzugos in Phil 4:3 and the Author of the 'We-sections' in Acts"
Jacob Neusner: "After the Advent of Criticism, What Happens? Seven Recent Books on Formative Judaism: Its History, Literature, and Religion"
Ernst Barnikol: "The Non-Pauline Origen of the Parallelism of the Apostles Peter and Paul. Galatians 2:7-8"

JHC 5/1 (Spring 1998)

Miles Fowler: "Identification of the Bethany Youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark with other Figures Found in Mark and John,"
N. Wyatt: "Understanding Polytheism: Structure and Dynamic in a West Semitic Pantheon,"
Jacob Neusner: "Contexts of Comparison: Reciprocally Reading Gospels' and Rabbis' Parables,"
Barbara Thiering: "Christian History and the Dead Sea Scrolls: More About Method,"
Ernst Lohmeyer: "The Structure and Organization of the Fourth Gospel,"

JHC 4/2 (Fall 1997)

Walter Schmithals: "The Parable Stories in the Synoptic Tradition"
Valerie Abrahamsen: "Burials in Greek Macedonia: Possible Evidence for Same-Sex Committed Relationships in Early Christianity"
J. Duncan M. Derrett: "Shared Themes: The Virgin Birth (Matthew 1:18-2:12) "
Earl Doherty: "The Jesus Puzzle: Pieces in a Puzzle of Christian Origins "
Robert M. Price: "Robert Eisenman's James the Brother of Jesus: A Higher-Critical Evaluation "
Ethelbert Stauffer: "The Caliphate of James"
A Rejoinder by Ita Sheres and Anne Blau to Barbara Thiering's Review of their book The Truth About the Virgin - with a Reply by Barbara Thiering

JHC 4/1 (Spring 1997)

Darrell J. Doughty: "Luke's Story of Paul in Corinth: Fictional History in Acts 18"
William O. Walker: "Kyrios and Epistatês as translations of Rabbi/Rabbouni"
J. Duncan M. Derrett: "The Prayer in Gethsemane (Mk 13:36-36)"
Piet B. Boshoff: "The Proclaimer Became the Proclaimed: Walter Schmithals's Point of View"
Robert J. Miller: "Can the Historical Jesus be Made Safe for Orthodoxy? A Critique of The Jesus Quest, by Ben Witherington III"
Johannes Leipoldt: "The Resurrection Stories, A Religious-Historical Perspective"

JHC 3/2 (Fall 1996)

Hermann Detering: "The Dutch Radical Approach to the Pauline Epistles"
Christoph Demke: "Theology and Literary Criticism in 1 Thessalonians"
Barbara Thiering: "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Question of Method,"
Andries Van Aarde: "The Second Letter to the Thessalonians Re-read as Pseudepigraph,"
A. Q. Morton: "A New Look at the Gospel of Matthew,"
David Seeley: "Jesus and the Cynics: A Response to Hans Dieter Betz,"
J. Massyingbaerde Ford: "The Crucifixion of Women in Antiquity,"

JHC 3/1 (Spring 1996)

Ramsey MacMullen: "Paganism - Hard to Kill"
Chilton, Bruce: "A Generative Exegesis of Mark 7:1-23"
Jacob Neusner: "The Higher Criticism in the Study of Formative Judaism"
Günter Lüling: "Preconditions for the Scholarly Study of the Koran and Islam, with some Autobiographical Remarks"
Eisenman Robert: "Paul as Herodian"
Mark D. Thomas: "The Emergence of Critical Research on the Book of Mormon"

JHC 2/2 (Fall 1995)

Richard I. Pervo: "A Hard Act to Follow: The Acts of Paul and the Canonical Acts"
Dewey, Arthur J.: "Four Visions and a Funeral: Resurrection in the Gospel of Peter," 33-51
Howard, George: "Hebrew Gospel of Matthew: A Report"
Robert M. Price: "Apocryphal Apparitions: 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 as a Post-Pauline Interpolation,"
Hartlich, Christian: "Historical-Critical Method in its Application to Statements Concerning Events in the Holy Scrptures"
Weidmann, Frederick: "The Good Teacher: Social Identity and Community Purpose in the Pastoral Epistles"
O'Neill, J. C.: "Gunkel Versus Wellhausen: The Unfinished Task of the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule"

JHC 2/1 (Spring 1995)

Miller, Merrill P.: ""Beginning from Jerusalem...": Re-examining Canon and Consensus"
Margaret Barker,: "The Secret Jesus Tradition"
Thomas L. Brodie,: "Reopening the Quest for Proto-Luke: The Systematic Use of Judges 6-12 in Luke 16:1-19:8"
Barbara Thiering: "The Date and Unity of the Gospel of Philip"
Lüdemann, Gerd: "Concerning the History of Earliest Christianity in Rome: I. Valentinus and Marcion; II. Ptolemaeus and Justin"

JHC 1 (Fall 1994)

Robert M. Price

"Introducing the Journal of Higher Criticism"

Dennis R. Macdonald

"Luke's Eutychus and Homer's Elpenor: Acts 20:7-12 and Odyssey 10-12"

Richard I. Pervo

"Romancing an Oft-Neglected Stone: The Pastoral Epistles and the Epistolary Novel"

David Seeley

"The Background of the Philippians Hymn (2:6-11)"

Marco Frenschkowski

"The Enigma of the Three Words of Jesus in Gospel of Thomas Logion 13"

J. C. O'Neill

"The Question of Messianic Expectation in Pseudo-Philo's Biblical Antiquities"

Darrell J. Doughty

"Pauline Paradigms and Pauline Authenticity"

Philipp Vielhauer

"Paul and the Cephas Party in Corinth"