Best Wishes in the New Year 2008
I wanted to express my warmest best wishes in the New Year. I have appreciated so very much the personal messages and feedback so many of you have given me related to my book, The Jesus Dynasty, as well as the many related topics I have covered in this Blog during 2007. I will continue to address many of your queries through the Blog as well as personal responses as I can get to them.
2008 looks to be a most interesting and fascinating year in terms of news, developments, and further research in the ever changing field of Christian Origins.
I will be attending the Princeton sponsored Jerusalem Conference on the Talpiot Tomb in mid-January and will offer a series of reports and comments upon my return. Our excavations at Mt Zion in Jerusalem will become fully operational in 2008 and I hope to see some of you at the dig either in the March or the June seasons. My new book dealing with the apostle Paul, that picks up where The Jesus Dynasty left off, should see the light of day in the coming year. Although I began my academic career nearly 30 years ago with a published Ph.D. dissertation on Paul, this book promises to put things together in a way that truly ties up the loose ends and addresses some of the major questions with a new clarity. In writing the Paul book I have been able to construct a comprehensive overview that puts things together in a way that I think will make a lasting and significant contribution to our understanding of how Jesus became the “Christ” of Christianity.