Research Library
Stay up-to-date on my New Testament research.
I’m a PhD student documenting what I read. Every book gets a full scholarly write-up so you can follow the argument with me — every claim cited, every scholar named, every primary source tracked.
These are my engagement notes from books I’ve actually worked through. Each one tracks every argument the book offers, names every major scholar the author engages with, cites every primary source — original ancient texts, manuscripts, rabbinic literature, inscriptions — and preserves the original page numbers throughout, so you can pick up the book any time and navigate to the exact part you want to double-check.
If you want a 10-minute overview, this is not the place. If you want to see a PhD student wrestle with a book in real time and emerge with a citable, verifiable record of the argument — pull up a chair.
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Historical Apologetics
Historical Method
Resurrection
Michael R. Licona · 2010
Most resurrection-of-Jesus studies argue from the standpoint of a biblical scholar or a theologian. Michael R. Licona, a New Testament scholar and director of the International Society of Christian Apologists, did something different. His University of Pretoria doctoral dissertation — published in 2010 by IVP and Apollos as The Resurrection…
35 citations
63 sources
124 scholars
Christian Origins
Christology
Resurrection
Andrew Ter Ern Loke · 2023
Within years of Jesus's crucifixion, his earliest followers in Jerusalem were already worshiping him as divine. This was no slow drift. Something happened — and that something needs to be explained. That, in compressed form, is the project of Andrew Ter Ern Loke, a theologian at Hong Kong Baptist University.…
35 citations
26 sources
61 scholars
Christian Origins
Christology
Worship
Larry W. Hurtado · 2005
Devotion to Jesus as divine did not develop slowly. It erupted within the first years of the Christian movement, inside circles of Jewish believers fiercely committed to the worship of one God. This is the central claim of Larry W. Hurtado, a New Testament historian at the University of Edinburgh.…
30 citations
36 sources
37 scholars