Armed and Dangerous?
http://simonjjoseph.blogspot.co.uk/2014 ... erous.html
A Reply to Dale Martin's JSNT Essay (Part 1)
http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot ... -part.html
Armed and Pre-Existent?Another Response to Dale Martin’s Piece (Skinner)
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 CHRISTOPHER SKINNER LEAVE A COMMENT
Yesterday over at the Jesus Blog, the guys posted a response by S. Brian Pounds to Dale Martin’s recent article in JSNT suggesting that Jesus and his followers were armed and were participants in a failed armed revolt. I am waiting to read the response until I finish Martin’s article, but I also wanted to point out Simon Joseph’s response, which was posted on his blog yesterday afternoon. Looks like this article (and it’s coverage in a major public news source) will be fodder for some very interesting discussion in the weeks ahead. All of this is unfolding well ahead of the annual SBL meeting, where I expect this will be a topic of discussion, at the very least over coffee or drinks.
http://cruxsolablog.com/2014/09/24/anot ... e-skinner/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringo ... stent.html
Jesus Was Crucified Because Disciples Were Armed, Bible Analysis Suggests
Jesus may have been crucified because his followers were carrying weapons, according to a scholarly analysis of New Testament books.
Dale Martin, a professor of religious studies at Yale University, says that this aspect of stories about Jesus, as told in the gospels, has received too little attention, but could alone explain Jesus’s execution and also show that the man from Nazareth was not the pacifist he’s usually made out to be.
http://www.newsweek.com/jesus-was-cruci ... sts-271436