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Gospel Thrillers
  • Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible
  • Andrew S. Jacobs
  • Published online:
    09 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023
  • What if the original teachings of Jesus were different from the Bible's sanitized 'orthodox' version? What covert motivations might inspire those who decide what the text of the Bible 'says' or what it 'means'? For some who ask conspiratorial questions like these, the Bible is the vulnerable victim of secular forces seeking to divest the USA of its founding identity. For others, the biblical canon suppresses religious truths that could upend the status quo. Such suspicions surrounding the Bible find full expression in Gospel Thrillers: a 1960s fictional genre that endures and still commands a substantial following. These novels imagine a freshly discovered first-century gospel and a race against time to unlock its buried secrets. They also reflect the fears and desires that the Bible continues to generate. Andrew Jacobs reveals, in his authoritative examination, how this remarkable fictional archive opens a window onto disturbing biblical anxieties.

  • Radiocarbon dating the Iron Age in the Levant: a Bayesian model for six ceramic phases and six transitions

  • Israel Finkelstein, Eli Piasetzky
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 84 / Issue 324 / June 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 374-385
    Print publication:
    June 2010

  • The Bayesian model presented in this article is the first attempt to produce a chronological framework for the Iron Age in the Levant, using radiocarbon dating alone. The model derives from 339 determinations on 142 samples taken from 38 strata at 18 sites. The framework proposes six ceramic phases and six transitions which cover c. 400 years, between the late twelfth and mid eighth centuries BC. It furnishes us with a new scientific backbone for the history of Iron Age Levant.

    The article is supported by an online supplement which can be found in at http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/finkelstein324

  • Recent radiocarbon results and King Solomon

  • Israel Finkelstein, Eli Piasetzky
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 77 / Issue 298 / December 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 771-779
    Print publication:
    December 2003

  • Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy here offer a new chronological structure for the Iron Age in the Levant. The credit for the construction of massive public monuments in the northern part of Israel is here wrested from David and Solomon and attributed to the later Omride dynasty. The early Israelite monarchs actually ruled over a small kingdom in the highlands around Jerusalem rather than a great empire.