Sunday, December 07, 2014

Richard Bauckham, Assessing the Lost Gospel: All Seven Parts

Richard Bauckham's assessment of Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson, The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary Magdalene (New York: Pegasus, 2014) is now complete.

I have been posting his responses over the last two weeks, and I am happy now to gather links to all seven parts here.  In each case, the main link is to a PDF of the article.  Word versions are linked in square brackets:

Part 1: The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor – Content and Context [PDF] [Word]

Part 2: Misinterpreting Ephrem [PDF] [Word]

Part 3: Misreading Joseph and Aseneth (i) [PDF] [Word]

Part 4: Responding to Simcha's Responses [PDF] [Word]

Part 5: Misreading Joseph and Aseneth (ii) [PDF] [Word]

Part 6: On Mary Magdalene and Magdala [PDF] [Word]

Part 7: Conclusion and Pauline Postscript [PDF] [Word]

Many thanks to Prof. Bauckham for this fine, detailed critical analysis.

3 comments:

Keen Reader said...

I prefer historian Philip Jenkin's response to Jacobovici's latest revelation:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2014/12/the-jesus-identity/

It confers gravitas appropriate to the subject matter.

Steve Walton said...

Many thanks for hosting these, Mark. Could there be a one pdf combination of all of them?

Mark Goodacre said...

Thanks for the suggestion, Steve. Others have asked the same thing. To be frank, I don't think I can face combining them into one myself. If someone else were willing to do so, and with Prof. Bauckham's permission, I would be happy to upload & link.