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What difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography?Reading the gospels as ancient biographies makes a profound difference to the way that we interpret them. Biography immortalizes the memory of the subject, creating a literary monument to the person's life and teaching. Yet it is also a bid to legitimize a specific view of that figure and to position an author and his audience as appropriate "gatekeepers" of that me...

A world expert on Jesus and the Gospels cuts through the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's new movie about the resurrection of Jesus and his journey through Hell.

Explores Mark's gospel as an ancient biography of Jesus, taking in the way of life of Christianity's founding figure.

Short, accessible introduction to the historical Jesus and his continuing influence on the world and how we understand it.

This volume examines and discusses selected Bible documentaries and academically informed dramatizations of the Bible. With a major focus on recent productions in UK mainline television within the past 15 years, the contributors also engage with productions from the USA.After a critical introduction by Helen K. Bond, charting and reflecting on the use of the Bible on television in recent years, the book falls into three sections. First, a numb...

This study reconstructs the life of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor responsible for the execution of Jesus. The first section provides the historical and archaeological background. The following chapters look at six first-century authors: Philo, Josephus and the four gospel writers. Each chapter asks how Pilate is being used as a literary character in each work, why each author describes Pilate in a different way, and what this tells us abo...

An up-to-date picture of Jesus of Nazareth, highlighting the problems and pitfalls encountered in such a venture, and including a survey of current scholarship. >

A fresh scholarly look at the apostle Peter and his significance in the early church and beyond Long overshadowed by the apostle Paul, Peter has received increased scholarly attention of late. Building on that resurgence of interest, nineteen internationally prominent scholars of early Christian history examine and reassess the historical Peter and his significance, offering a comprehensive view of Peter through analysis both of New Testament ...

Presents a picture of Jesus of Nazareth, highlighting the problems and pitfalls encountered in such a venture. This title sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian), noting the problems connected with them, and focusing on the nature of the gospels, and the Synoptic versus the Johannine tradition.

This highly engaging and readable book is a study of Joseph Caiaphas, a Jewish high priest of the first century and one of the men who sent Jesus to his death. Caiaphas is a valuable resource for scholars of ancient history and students of the Gospel of Acts.

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