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The Chosen: I Have Called You By Name (The Chosen, #1)
Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
Revealing Revelation: How God's Plans for the Future Can Change Your Life Now
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables
Why the Gospel?: Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose
Women and the Gender of God
Pauline Theology as a Way of Life: A Vision of Human Flourishing in Christ
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
An Introduction to the New Testament
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: A Comprehensive Bible Commentary on Old Testament Quotations, Allusions & Echoes That Appear from Matthew through Revelation
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
Paul: A Biography
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
The Gospel According to John
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #4)
Paul: In Fresh Perspective
The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians

Robert M. Price
Luke 17:5-6, a Lukan paraphrase of Mark 11:22-24, strikes a surprising note of pessimism: "The apostles said to the Lord, `Increase our faith!' And the Lord said, `If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea!" and it would obey you."' The point is surely that, since such a thing is plainly never going to happen, you can see how little faith any one will ever have. It is like the rhetorical question of Luke 18:8, "When the ...more
Robert M. Price, The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?

Scholars had generally concluded that in all but the Supper scene, Paul was not quoting sayings of Jesus from his ministry. Rather, he was engaged in a practice common throughout early Christian preaching. Paul and his fellow charismatic missionaries of the Christ were relaying directives and revelations which they believed they had received directly from heaven, through inspiration, through visions and interpreting glossalalia (speaking in tongues), or simply through a study of scripture. [...] ...more
Earl Doherty, The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus

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