I want to give readers an update on some of the projects that I am working on. First, I have written a couple of articles on the Gospel of the Ebionites that will come out next year. The first one that will be featured in the journal Catholic Biblical Quarterly is a revision of a paper that I presented at last year’s SBL conference and defends the general academic consensus that the Gospel of the Ebionites was dependent on the Synoptic Gospels against a couple of critics of that consensus. The second one will be included in the journal Early Christianity and will argue for a later dating of the Gospel of the Ebionites than is generally held by many of the key commentators on this hypothetical text.

As for future projects, I hope to present at a conference on Paul where I will focus on how the apostle links the non-Jewish followers of Christ with the ancestors of Israel (e.g., Rom 4:11, 16; Gal 3:29; 1 Cor 10:1), but without identifying them as Israelites. I have looked at how later Christian writers such as the Epistle of Barnabas and Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew reconfigured Abrahamic descent in other publications, but I have a different take on what Paul was trying to do. I have been invited to contribute a chapter on Epiphanius and the Gospel of John, since this fourth-century heresiologist claimed that there was a group who rejected both the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation and that he called the Alogi (i.e. note the play on words as they reject the logos or “word” in the prologue of John’s Gospel and are mocked as lacking “reason”). Finally, my long-term goal is to write a more popular account of the origins of the church traditions about the authorship of all four Gospels, something that is not only deconstructive in showing why the traditions are not historical but that is also constructive in showing what purpose these traditions served in the reception of the Gospels and whether they are needed today to appreciate the theological contribution of the Gospel writers. However, these last few projects are more long-term goals and will not be completed in the near future.