The earliest fragment of Mark’s Gospel has apparently been discovered. Dr. Craig Evans of Acadia Divinity College says that a newly discovered fragment of the Gospel of Mark may be the oldest known fragment of a gospel. Dated sometime before 90 A.D., the fragment was recovered in a mummy’s mask. LiveScience first reported: A text that may be the oldest…
Category: New Testament Studies
Jesus of Testimony
An indispensible look at the Jesus of history and the Jesus of the Bible. . . Jesus of Testimony is hands down the best and most comprehensive look at the historical Jesus. – Greg West, The Poached Egg, Ratio Christi’s Christian Worldview and Apologetics Network For more information, visit the official Jesus of Testimony page. Did Jesus really exist?…
Latest Greek NT Manuscripts
Dan Wallace is professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), the purpose of which is digitizing all known Greek manuscripts of the New Testament via digital photographs. According to Wallace, “The total number of catalogued Greek New Testament manuscripts now…
Gospel of Judas: Authentic But Heretical
A recent article in the Christian Post is titled ‘Gospel’ of Judas Free of Forgeries But Still ‘Fake, Heretical,’ Says New Testament Scholar. Katherine Weber reported, “Researchers have recently revealed their methods for determining that the Gospel of Judas, a fragmented Coptic text traced to Egypt in approximately A.D. 280, is in fact free of…
A New New Testament: Old Old Heresy
A culminating work of the Jesus Seminar era and of others influenced by it, the New New Testament A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts edited by Hal Taussig presents old old Gnostic heresy. A founding member of the Jesus Seminar, Taussig and 19 American “spiritual leaders” and scholars selected 10 texts to…