Tag Archives: Mark Goodacre
SBL on Monday, or Eurocentric Biblical Studies
Monday highlights at the 2011 Society of Biblical Literature conference: 1. The African-American Biblical Hermeneutics section was the absolute stand-out section of the day. Discussing a small handful of rabbinic texts that are prejudicial in some way towards blacks (texts for which … Continue reading
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Mark Goodacre’s Podcast on the Walking Talking Cross of the Gospel of Peter: Or, When is a Walking Talking Cross not a Walking Talking Cross?
Mark Goodacre provides a second podcast on the second-century apocryphal Gospel, the Gospel of Peter. In an earlier podcast, Mark provided an overview of the Gospel of Peter. In this podcast, Mark discusses the most unusual aspect of the Gospel … Continue reading
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Why Jesus was a Giant: The Messianic Interpretation of Psalm 18(19) in Gosp. Peter 10.38-42
The early Christian gospels frequently narrate certain events in the life of Jesus as though they were prophetic “fulfilments” of the (Old Testament) scriptures. Some of these purported fulfilments involve very wooden and (for us, perhaps) unusual interpretations of the Old Testament. For example, in … Continue reading
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Mark Goodacre on the Gospel of Peter, Walking and Talking Crosses, and Giant Jesuses
Mark Goodacre now has a podcast out which introduces the Gospel of Peter. Towards the end of the podcast, he addresses a unique development in this Gospel. The canonical Gospels never narrate the ascent of Jesus from the grave to heaven (or to … Continue reading
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