For those who may be new to Behind the Gospels or are simply interested in taking a look back at what I’ve written since I started in 2024, I have collected all my pieces, and grouped them according to theme (‘historical Jesus’, ‘dating and authorship’, ‘gospel origins’, etc.). I hope you have a peruse, and perhaps find a piece to enjoy!
The Historical Jesus
The Historical Jesus in 50 Questions
What did Paul know about Jesus?
Why does Paul say so little about Jesus?
How to Become a World Expert on the Historical Jesus
Was Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness?
Jesus’ Temptation in the Wilderness [Lecture]
What was Jesus’ hometown really like?
Criteria of Authenticity in Jesus Research
Did the Historical Jesus Sing?
Recovering the Lost Years of Jesus
Feeding the Five Thousand: Fact or Fiction?
Was Jesus an Apocalyptic Prophet?
The Apocalyptic Jesus: Answering Three Common Objections
The Historicity of the Gospels
Are the Gospels Historically Reliable?
Is the Gospel of John Historical?
Can We Really Know what Jesus Said?
Five Facts about the Gospels (You Might Not Hear in a Pew)
What C.S. Lewis got Wrong about the Gospels
Fact-Checking the Gospels on Joe Rogan
Can the Dates of Jesus’ Death Be Reconciled?
Authorship and Dating of the Gospels
Why are the Gospels Anonymous?
Is Matthew an Eyewitness Text?
Matthew’s Money – An Eyewitness Tell?
Was Peter Behind the Gospel of Mark?
Dating the Gospels after AD 70
Anti-Supernaturalist Bias in Dating the Gospels
Gospel Origins, Oral Tradition and Memory
A Telephone Game Behind the Gospels?
Memory and the Jesus Tradition
Editorial Fatigue in the Gospels
What Happened Before the Gospels?
The Pre-Markan Passion Narrative
The Birth of Jesus
Does Christianity Rise & Fall on the Virgin Birth?
The Nativity: History, Theology & Literature
Did Matthew Invent the Virgin Birth?
Q&A: Have we got Christmas all wrong?
Five Myths about Matthew’s Magi
The Nativity: Seven Historical Problems
How to Write an Infancy Narrative
Jesus’ Death, Burial and Resurrection
Good Friday: An Anti-Roman Triumph?
Vanishing bodies, Ascending gods
Why We Can’t Prove the Resurrection
William Lane Craig on the Empty Tomb
Ancient Apologetics for the Empty Tomb
Seven Evidences for the Resurrection [Part 1]
Seven Evidences for the Resurrection [Part 2]
Women Witnesses: Proof of an Empty Tomb?
A New Argument for the Empty Tomb?
The Real Meaning of Doubting Thomas
Christology and Ancient Heroes
Is Jesus Divine in the Gospels?
Worshipping Jesus in the Gospels
Jesus, the Tortoise and the Hare
Destroying the Jerusalem Temple
Jesus, Dionysus and Olympic Outrage
The Gospels as Literature
Reading the Gospels as Animals
Why does Mark call Antipas ‘King’?
Are the Gospels Graeco-Roman ‘Lives’?
Did Jesus Cleanse the Temple… Twice?
Seeing Double in Matthew’s Gospel
Four More Gospel Number Puzzles
The Gospels are Bíoi – So What?
Jesus’ Physical Appearance
What did Jesus Really Look Like?
Jesus’ Strangest Piece of Clothing
Jesus’ Physical Appearance – A Conversation
50 Questions on Jesus’ Physical Appearance
Q&A – Jesus’ Physical Appearance
Is the Turin Shroud Jesus’ Burial Cloth?
Does God Actually Look Like Elon Musk?
Jesus’ Seamless Tunic: A High Priestly Vestment?
Christianity and the Roman World
Suetonius – A Roman Source for Jesus?
Our Earliest Description of Jesus
Are we all Ancient Christians?
The Jesus Fish – A Secret Christian Code?
Bibliographies & Interviews
The Resurrection: An Annotated Bibliography
Christology: An Annotated Bibliography
Biblical Scholarship & Shifting Beliefs
The Gospels in Historical View
Behind Mark’s Gospel with Dr Vette
Miscellanea
The Story of Behind the Gospels
C.S. Lewis on the Bible as ‘Word of God’
How Classical Art Gets the Gospels Wrong
Contradictions Teach us How to Read the Gospels
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