Journal Articles by Michael B . Metts
Journal of Semitics, 2025
This article considers more carefully Raymond Martin’s methodology, syntax
criticism, proposes a... more This article considers more carefully Raymond Martin’s methodology, syntax
criticism, proposes a renewal of Martin’s work using more recent textual data,
and proposes changes to Martin’s method that include discarding certain criteria
and proposing newer ones. The advances on Martin’s work by Karen Jobes are
also evaluated and refined. After thorough examination of Martin and Jobes’s
prior labours, entirely novel translation Greek control data for Septuagint
preposition ratios are provided, as well as entirely novel data for the frequencies
of kai and de in Septuagint texts. It is hoped that these data become standardised
translation Greek control data.
Criswell Theological Review 19.2, 2022
The Last Supper in Fresh Perspective: Toward an Apocalyptic Foundation
Bulletin for Biblical Research 31.3, 2021
Qur'an researchers associated with philology and the recent revisionist paradigm (voices such as ... more Qur'an researchers associated with philology and the recent revisionist paradigm (voices such as Alphonse Mingana, Christoph Luxenberg, John Wansbrough, Fred M. Donner, Andrew Rippin, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Emran Iqbal El-Badawi, Robert M. Kerr, and Ibn Warraq) evidence a methodological disparity with NT researchers. While Qur'an historians allow meaningful input form philology by appropriating a sensible linguistic milieu that can accord with the Qur'an's linguistic phenomena, particularly Aramaic or Syriac influence on the Qur'an's Arabic, several voices in Last Supper research (including Matthias Klinghardt, Dennis E. Smith, and Paul F. Bradshaw) pursue Greco-Roman symposial and/or pagan influences contrary to philological findings. This article considers philology in Qur'an studies and in NT studies and examines anew the Aramaic influence evident in Mark's Last Supper. Research by Raymond A. Martin and Joachim Jeremias is especially noted. This article seeks to pose NT researchers with the following question: Is there a lesson to learn from scholars working in Qur'an studies?
Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History: Criteria and Context in the Study of Christian Origins, 2019
A response to the so-called demise of the criteria of authenticity.
Book Reviews by Michael B . Metts
Bulletin for Biblical Research 28.3, 2018
A few editorial changes resulted in errors in the review. So please see the file labeled "COMPLETE"
Bulletin for Biblical Research 29.2, 2019
Journal of Gospels and Acts Research, 2020
Criswell Theological Review, 2020
The title of Havukainen's book, which is his dissertation completed under Kari Syreeni (retired P... more The title of Havukainen's book, which is his dissertation completed under Kari Syreeni (retired Professor Emeritus and noted researcher on Jesus and media studies) at Åbo Akademi University, does not adequately relate the additional material within it on the criteria of authenticity, orality, and their recent discussion. But this welcome material is valuable as his discussion of memory. Havukainen will conclude the viability of memory models but also note areas of concern. Havukainen, a long-time member of the Åbo Akademi Historical Jesus Research Group led by Samuel Byrskog, is now Sessional Lecturer at Alpha Crucis College in New South Wales, Australia.
Bulletin for Biblical Research 29.4, 2019
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Journal Articles by Michael B . Metts
criticism, proposes a renewal of Martin’s work using more recent textual data,
and proposes changes to Martin’s method that include discarding certain criteria
and proposing newer ones. The advances on Martin’s work by Karen Jobes are
also evaluated and refined. After thorough examination of Martin and Jobes’s
prior labours, entirely novel translation Greek control data for Septuagint
preposition ratios are provided, as well as entirely novel data for the frequencies
of kai and de in Septuagint texts. It is hoped that these data become standardised
translation Greek control data.
Book Reviews by Michael B . Metts