The Jesus Dynasty Blog Archive
I wanted to point out to new readers of this Blog, and older ones as well, that there is now an extensive archive of hundreds of posts at this site covering a variety of topics related to the historical Jesus and Christian Origins more generally. I have devoted many hours to writing these entries and they number now in the many hundreds of pages. Even though this Blog began in April, 2006, with the publication of my book, The Jesus Dynasty, as a way of updating readers and addressing various issues and questions related thereto, its scope has always been a broader discussion of what we generally call “Christian Origins.”
The WordPress software makes it quite easy for readers to investigate posts by Category, such as Archaeology (17 posts), Biblical Expositions (24 posts), Pantera (12 posts), Christian Origins (20), or the Talpiot Jesus Family Tomb (55 posts). There is a menu at the right of the page that one can simply click on to bring up all the posts under that topic. These categories are quite general, and there is some overlapping, but they are useful for a beginning survey of what is archived. The menu on the right of the page also contains a powerfully accurate Search feature whereby one can find all posts that mention a key word or concept. One could, for example, search for Mary Magdalene, and references to her would come up across a variety of the Categories.
There is so much here I was actually thinking of extracting these posts and turning them into a small topical book of some sort, or at least making them available on my University Web site, The Jewish Roman World of Jesus. If you don’t know that site you might take a look. It has a very extensive collection of materials I use in my classes here at UNC Charlotte and it is now used by many colleagues throughout the world who are teaching Christian Origins.
Anyway, this post was prompted by a reader of my book who wrote me this week asking some basic questions on the Talpiot tomb. Rather than trying to answer through e-mail, covering things I had already written, I referred her to this Blog site. I heard back from her two or three days later and she reported that she had spent two days reading through all the posts–literally hundreds of pages, and had found that the material more than answered her basic questions. Although I have put up posts that cover “news” items, about my book and other related things in the field, by far the majority of posts are serious and sustained treatments of various topics. I invite all of you to delve in and e-mail me (jesusdynasty@earthlink.net) with resulting questions or responses.