Author Archives: Philip A. Harland

The sacraments and divisions in the reformations (Reformations 9)

Thecla, Tertullian, and controversies over women’s leadership (NT Apocrypha 18)

Into the mystic: Meister Eckhart and medieval mysticism (Reformations 8)

Menocchio on judgement and hell (Reformations 7)

Peter vs. Simon Magus (alias Paul) in the Pseudo-Clementines (NT Apocrypha 17)

Sophia’s mistake: The Sophia of Jesus Christ and Eugnostos (NT Apocrypha 16)

“Gnosticism” as a scholarly category and the study of the diversity of Christianity (NT Apocrypha 15)

Menocchio on the Synoptic problem (Reformations 6)

Demons and everyday life: Giving birth to monsters (Reformations 5)

The Fall of the temple of Artemis according to the Acts of John (NT Apocrypha 14)

Menocchio, the peasant, on cheese and maggots (Reformations 4)

The Coptic Gospel of Thomas and an interesting online debate (NT Apocrypha 13)

“Forgery” (deceit) or “pseudonymity” (admiration): Ehrman’s take (NT Apocrypha 12)

Jesus said: Let the children. . . get lost? (NT Apocrypha 11)

Bandits and their wild banquets: Lapiths and Centaurs

Reformations: Continuity or disjunction? (Reformations 2)

Reformations and Late-Medieval Christianity (1300-1650) course (Reformations 1)

The brilliant student and the humiliated teacher again: Smart young Apollonius of Tyana (NT Apocrypha 8)

“Are we. . . to listen to her?”: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (NT Apocrypha 7)

Early Christian Apocrypha and the historiography of early Christianity (NT Apocrypha 6)

Acts of John: Be thou like the bed-bugs (NT Apocrypha 5)

Peter (in the Pseudo-Clementines) on “false” passages in scripture (NT Apocrypha 4)

Jesus’ descent into hell and Satan’s conversation with Hades (NT Apocrypha 3)

The Little Drummer Boy and Protevangelium of James (NT Apocrypha 2)

The Cursing Infant Jesus: Ancient vs. modern sensibilities (NT Apocrypha 1)

“Marvels” yet again: Long-lost fountain of viagra

A Hellenistic Twilight Zone episode (and a Jewish parallel story)

Phlegon’s Believe It or Not: Man undergoes sex change only to reverse it

Those other (“pagan”) synagogues

Multiple memberships in the world of the early Christians

Aliens, Fallen Angels, and Heaven’s Gate

Banqueting under the protection of your gods

An invitation from the god Sarapis: Banqueting with the gods

Worshiping the Beast / Honouring the Emperor

“Going beyond all bounds to the realm of myth” in describing the “other”

Banquets of the anti-associations: “They sacrificed a human being and partook of the flesh”