Bible Review

In early Christianity, Docetism was the heretical view that God’s revelation in Christ was only a spiritual appearance and not a flesh-and-blood reality.

See also Suzanne Singer, “The Power of the Psalms in Our Time,” BR 02:03.

Rabbinic exegesis was more exercised about the anomaly of the three divine messengers having to eat (or consenting to eat) than about the mingling of milk and meat in apparent violation of the (later) dietary laws. See W. Gunther Plaut, The Torah: A Modern Commentary (New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregation, 1981), p. 122.

See James Brashler, “Nag Hammadi Codices Shed New Light on Early Christian History,” BAR 10:01, and Brashler’s reviews of The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. James Robinson, and The Jesus of Heresy and History, by John Dart, in Bible Books, BR 06:01.

See Helmut Koester and Stephen J. Patterson, “The Gospel of Thomas—Does It Contain Authentic Sayings of Jesus?” BR 06:02.

A group of about 125 scholars who meet twice a year to debate and vote on the likelihood that a particular saying of Jesus was authentic. See Marcus Borg, “What Did Jesus Really Say?” BR 05:05.

See Roy W. Hoover, “How the Books of the New Testament Were Chosen,” BR 09:02, and George Howard, “Canon: Choosing the Books of the New Testament,” BR 05:05.

See Hallo’s article, “The Oldest Cookbooks in the World,” in this issue; see also his “Sumerian Literature,” BR 04:03.

Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976), German theologian who considered the historical Jesus to be a pre-supposition of Christian theology, which he saw as beginning with the Resurrection.

Barbara Thiering, Redating the Teacher of Righteousness (1979), The Gospels and Qumran: A New Hypothesis (1981) and The Qumran Origins of the Christian Church (1983).