The Ending of Mark (Mark 16:9-20)
The second explains the controversies, though not the crucifixion, at the expense of most of the evidence about first-century Jews. At the historical level, nobody doubts that Jesus was crucified, but a good many doubt that he entered into controversy with the Pharisees in particular. How are we to proceed?
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
What about “The Woman Caught in Adultery”?
Looking back at John 7:53-8:11, it is clear this story was not in John’s original gospel. Your Bible likely has brackets around this story with a note that says something like “The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-8:11.” This is because the only manuscript before the ninth century to include this s... See more
Looking back at John 7:53-8:11, it is clear this story was not in John’s original gospel. Your Bible likely has brackets around this story with a note that says something like “The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-8:11.” This is because the only manuscript before the ninth century to include this s... See more
Adultery | Why We Are Not Preaching on the Woman Caught in Adultery
The ‘Jesus Seminar’ has rejected Jewish eschatology, particularly apocalyptic, as an appropriate context for understanding Jesus himself, and in order to do so has declared the Markan narrative a fiction.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Though these works bore the names of well-known individuals from the first-century, they originated much too late to have been written by eyewitnesses of the life and resurrection of Jesus. Not only did they lack eyewitnesses, but the authors were not able to interview eyewitnesses, as Luke did for his Gospel.