Articles are accepted after review and may be written either by laymen or scholars. Send an e-mail to kirby@earthlink.net with an existing essay or an idea for a new article. Articles are solicited on the following topics:
- The relationship of Platonism to early Christianity
- The mystery religions and primitive Christianity
- The significance of Gnosticism
- Corruption, forgery, and suppression in the early church
- The "James, brother of Jesus" ossuary
- What does Paul really say about Jesus?
- Jewish pseudepigrapha and Jewish mysticism
- Josephus on Jesus
- Other Non-Christian References (Tacitus, Pliny, etc.)
- The problem of rapid apotheosis
- The problem of doctrinal diversity in the Jesus movement
- The theory that Jesus was a shadowy man of the indefinite past
- The theory of Jesus as a Cosmic Christ made Galilean peasant
- The Homeric Hypothesis of R. MacDonald
- The Lectionary Hypothesis of Goulder and Spong
- The Pagan Parallels
- Old Testament Midrash
- Articles on the deutero-Pauline epistles, non-Pauline epistles, Hebrews, Revelation, sayings gospels, the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke, the Gospel of John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Apocrypha, the Apostolic Fathers, or the Apologists as they relate to the debate over the existence of Jesus
Articles may vary in length from 1,000 to 20,000 words. The author retains the copyright and may republish elsewhere. There is currently no compensation. All articles will be reviewed before publication. Thank you for your interest in this endeavor!