Revising the Roots of Orthodoxy

For Further Study

Several helpful studies have been published recently that challenge the revisionist thesis and defend or support the traditional view.

For critiques of the revisionists generally:

Darrell L. Bock, Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth behind Alternative Christianities (Nelson, 2006)

Philip Jenkins, Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way (Oxford, 2002)

J. Ed Komoszewski, M. James Sawyer, and Daniel B. Wallace, Reinventing Jesus: What the Da Vinci Code and Other Novel Speculations Don’t Tell You (Kregel, 2006)

Ben Witherington III, What Have They Done with Jesus? Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History – Why We Can Trust the Bible (Harper San Francisco, 2006)

For critiques of the Walter Bauer thesis:

H.E.W. Turner, The Pattern of Christian Truth: A Study in the Relations Between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church (Mowbray, 1954)

Thomas A. Robinson, The Bauer Thesis Examined: The Geography of Heresy in the Early Christian Church (Mellen, 1988)

On the historicity of the Gospels:

Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans, 2006)

James D. G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered (Eerdmans, 2003)

On the historicity of Acts:

Colin Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History (Mohr, 1989)

Rainer Riesner, Paul’s Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology (Eerdmans, 1998)