Category Archives: Ian Brown

Religion Snapshots: On the Uses of “Data,” Part 1

Religion Snapshots is a new feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where a number of contributors are asked to briefly comment on popular news items or pressing theoretical issues in the field, especially those topics relating … Continue reading

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Classify This: Reflections on the 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium

by Ian Brown Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 2013 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium at York University. The symposium featured 20 invited papers from scholars hailing from numerous North American universities. The papers were very eclectic with … Continue reading

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A little simple, perhaps, but useful! On the Reza Aslan affair

by Ian Brown First, an admission. While I have watched Fox News anchor Lauren Green’s interview with Reza Aslan, I have not read his book and likely will not. Based on the book’s chapter headings, bibliography, indebtedness to N.T. Wright, James … Continue reading

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Stories About a Married Jesus

By Ian Brown For those of you not glued to your computers, anxiously awaiting the next startling development in the saga of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, aka, GosJesWife, allow me to bring you up to speed. On September 18, … Continue reading

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Immodest Proposals, Unquestioned Answers

By Ian Brown In a recent and provocative essay entitled, “An Immodest Proposal for Biblical Studies,” James Crossley notes, Biblical Studies has not really generated unique methods and ought rather to be conceived as a field of study which utilizes methods … Continue reading

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