NT Pod 102: Has Q Been Discovered?

NT Pod 102 asks, "Has Q Been Discovered?" It is 14 minutes long. 

NT Pod 102: Has Q Been Discovered? (mp3)

Key texts: P.Oxy.5575; Matt. 6.25-33; Luke 6.22-31; Luke 12.16-21; Thomas 27; Thomas 36; Thomas 63.

For more on P.Oxy.5575, see:

Candida Moss, "Scholars Publish New Papyrus with Early Sayings of Jesus" (Daily Beast) 

Peter Gurry, Synopsis of P.Oxy. 5575, Matt, Luke, and Thomas (Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog)

Mark Goodacre, English Synopsis of P.Oxy. 5575, Matthew, Luke, and Thomas (PDF)

Brent Nongbri, "The Date of the New Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus P.Oxy. 87.5575", Variant Readings Blog

J. Fish, D.B. Wallace, and M. W. Holmes (eds), "P.Oxy. 5575" in Volume LXXXVII of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (2023) [Fuller citation to follow]

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NT Pod 90: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Confirmed?

NT Pod 90, "How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Confirmed?", is the final episode in in the series of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over eighteen minutes long.


NT Pod 90: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Confirmed? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus' Wife, Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, July/August 2016 Issue

To Catch a Forger (Video), Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, June 22 2016, YouTube (extracts featured in this episode)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version, January 2017 to present)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2014 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, June to December 2016 site, via archive.org): "Statement from HDS Dean David N. Hempton on the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts (includes links to all the resources discussed in the podcast)

Harvard Theological Review 107/2 (April 2014) (Titles and Abstracts)

New Testament Studies 61/3 (July 2015) (Titles and Abstracts)

The Owner's Interlinear / Translation (via archive.org)

"Gospel of Jesus' Wife": Doubts Raised About Ancient Text, Owen Jarus, Live Science (April 22 2014)

More on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife and Walter Fritz, Christian Askeland, Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog, June 16 2016

Gospel of Jesus' Wife Likely a Fake, Bizarre Backstory Suggests, Owen Jarus, Live Science (June 17 2016)

Karen King Responds to ‘The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife’, "The Harvard scholar says papyrus is probably a forgery", Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, June 16 2016

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NT Pod 89: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Proved?

NT Pod 89, "How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Proved?", is the third of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over eighteen minutes long.


NT Pod 89: How was the Forgery of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife Proved? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2014 site, via archive.org)

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts (includes links to all the resources discussed in the podcast)

Harvard Theological Review 107/2 (April 2014) (Titles and Abstracts)

The Forgery of the Lycopolitan John (Christian Askeland)

New Testament Studies 61/3 (July 2015) (Titles and Abstracts)

The Owner's Interlinear / Translation (via archive.org)

Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Revelation or a Hoax? (Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe)


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NT Pod 88: Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?

NT Pod 88, "Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?" is the second of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over eighteen minutes long.


NT Pod 88: Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2014 site, via archive.org)

Testing Indicates "Gospel of Jesus's Wife" to be Ancient (April 2014)

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts (includes Francis Watson's and Andrew Bernhard's posts)

Alleged 'Lost Gospel' Claims Jesus Had Wife, 2 Children (Good Morning America, November 2014; extracted in the intro.)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife Smithsonian Documentary (extracted in the outro).


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NT Pod 87: What is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife?

NT Pod 87, "What is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife?" is the first of four podcasts on the Gospel of Jesus' Wife. It is just over twelve minutes long.


NT Pod 87: What is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife? (mp3)


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Websites referenced in this podcast:

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard official site, revised "vanilla" version)

Gospel of Jesus' Wife (Harvard, 2012 site, via archive.org)

NT Blog: Gospel of Jesus' Wife Posts

Gospel of Jesus' Wife Smithsonian Documentary (extract from this in intro).

Jesus said to the, "My wife" (extract from this is played in the episode)

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NT Pod 58: An Alternative Version of the Christmas Story

NT Pod 58 discusses the Protevangelium of James and its alternative version of the Christmas story. It is 14 minutes long.

NT Pod 58: An Alternative Version of the Christmas Story (mp3)

Key texts: Protevangelium of James

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NT Pod 56: The Walking, Talking Cross in the Gospel of Peter

NT Pod 56 discusses The Walking, Talking Cross in the Gospel of Peter. It is about thirteen minutes long.



NT Pod 56: The Walking, Talking Cross in the Gospel of Peter (mp3)
NT Pod 56: The Walking, Talking Cross in the Gospel of Peter (mp3) (Alternative location)

The episode is a sequel to NT Pod 55: The Gospel of Peter.

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NT Pod 55: The Gospel of Peter

NT Pod 55 discusses The Gospel of Peter. It is thirteen and a half minutes long.



NT Pod 55: The Gospel of Peter (mp3)
NT Pod 55: The Gospel of Peter (mp3) (Alternative location)

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NT Pod 40: "Teeth will be provided": the joke, the hoax, the story

NT Pod 40 discusses an amusing agraphon that turned out to be a hoax, and the joke that preceded it. It is just under ten minutes long.



NT Pod 40: "Teeth will be provided" (mp3)
NT Pod 40: "Teeth will be provided" (mp3) (Alternative location)

Key texts: Matt. 24.51

References:

Ehrman, Bart D., Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 69-70

Carlson, Stephen C., The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark (Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2005): 17-19

Metzger, Bruce, "Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha," JBL 91 (1972): 3-24

Coleman-Norton, Paul, "An Amusing Agraphon," CBQ 12 (1950): 439-49.

"Anecdotes", Annie Besant (ed.), Our Corner V (1885): 120.

"Under the Spreading Chesnut Tree," Everybody's Magazine XXIV (January-June 1911): 142.

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NT Pod 22: The Anonymity of the Gospels

Episode 22 of the NT Pod discusses the issue of The Anonymity of the Gospels, exploring some of the issues that surround the relative lack of "authorial representation" in the canonical Gospels, in contrast with some second century Gospels.

It is eleven minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.



NT Pod Episode 22: The Anonymity of the Gospels (mp3)

Key texts: Matthew 9.9; Luke 1.1-4, John 19.35, John 21.24; Gospel of Thomas Incipit; Protevangelium of James 25.1; Gospel of Peter 15.60; Apocryphon of James.

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NT Pod 15: The Gospel of Thomas: First Glimpse

Episode 15 introduces the Gospel of Thomas and looks at the discovery of fragments of this Gospel in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, in 1897 and 1903, by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt.

It is twelve minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.



NT Pod Episode 15: The Gospel of Thomas: First Glimpse (mp3)

Programme Notes are on the NT Blog.

Key texts: Gospel of Thomas Incipit, 1, 26, 28, 31; Luke 6:41-42; Luke 4:24.

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