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Factions, Variety, Diversity, Multiplicity: Representing Early Christian Differences for the 21st Century
(Brill, 2011)
Abstract Early Christians largely understood their differences in terms of factionalism, articulated in terms of discourses of orthodoxy and heresy. Contemporary historiography has troubled those discourses with talk of ...
The Place of the Gospel of Philip in the Context of Early Christian Claims about Jesus’s Marital Status
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
It has long been recognized that one of the main topics of the Gospel of Philip is ritual, including ‘the bridal chamber’, and numerous studies have discussed what practices and attitudes toward sexuality and marriage are ...
Reading Sex and Gender in the Secret Revelation of John
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)
The Secret Revelation of John is replete with imagery of the divine Mother alongside the Father God and his Son Christ. It boasts of powerful female saviors—and even identifies Christ among them. Eve is not the cause of ...
"Jesus said to them, 'My wife ...'": A New Coptic Papyrus Fragment
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)
Response to Leo Depuydt, "The Alleged Gospel of Jesus's Wife: Assessment and Evaluation of Authenticity"
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)
Jesus
(Oxford University Press, 2019-11)
This essay examines the diverse ways in which representations of Jesus/Christ served as paradigms for authorizing, exemplifying, and promoting early Christian beliefs and practices. It asks how ancients might have read the ...