Footnote 1 - Paul’s Challenge to Caesar
See Ben Witherington, “Why Not Idol Meat?” BR 10:03.
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See Ben Witherington, “Why Not Idol Meat?” BR 10:03.
See Luke T. Johnson, “The Search for (the Wrong) Jesus,” BR 11:06; and The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996).
The Jesus Seminar is a group of scholars that formed in 1985 to debate the authenticity of Jesus’ sayings. See “Battling Over the Jesus Seminar,” BR 13:02.
See Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Major Septuagint Maunuscripts-Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus,” sidebar to “Mission to Alexandria,” BR 05:04.
See James A. Sanders and Astrid Beck, “The Leningrad Codex: Rediscovering the Oldest Complete Hebrew Bible,” BR 13:04.
See Michael Hudson, “Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land,” and the accompanying sidebar on the Liberty Bell in this issue.
Peter T. Chattaway, “Jesus in the Movies,” BR 14:01.
In 1928 a Syrian farmer accidentally struck a tomb with his plow at Ras Shamra, on the northern coast of Syria. Subsequent excavations revealed the remains of the 14th-century B.C. city of Ugarit. Archaeologists discovered thousands of cuneiform tablets here. Several found in the library of the chief priest of the temple of Baal record the major Canaanite myths.
See “The ‘Pierced Messiah’ Text—An Interpretation Evaporates,” BAR 18:04; James D. Tabor, “A Pierced or Piercing Messiah?—The Verdict Is Still Out,” BAR 18:06.