Writings of Bruce Chilton

Since the launch of The Bible and Interpretation in 2000, Bruce Chilton has been a leading contributor to the site. In recognition of his outstanding scholarship and his invaluable contributions over the past 25 years, we are pleased to honor him with a curated list of his articles.

Bruce Chilton is the Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College and the Rector Emeritus of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. He has held academic positions in Europe at the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster, and in the United States at Yale University—where he was the inaugural Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament—and at Bard College. An internationally recognized expert on the New Testament and early Judaism, Professor Chilton has authored fifty books and more than one hundred scholarly articles. His work has focused particularly on understanding Jesus within the context of Judaism and on the critical study of the Targumim, the Aramaic paraphrases of the Bible.

By Bruce Chilton
Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion
Bard College https://www.bard.edu/iat/
August 2025

Rabbi Jesus, November 2000

James, Jesus' Brother, November 2001

Another look at the James Ossuary, April 2003

The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament, May 2003

Scholars, Journalists and the Ossuary, November 2003

Mel Gibson’s Passion Play, March 2004

Pilate, the Politics of Rome, and Evangelical Politics, February 2005

The Mamzer Jesus and His Birth, October 2005

Plus ça change… “The Jesus Seminar” and “The Jesus Project”, January 2009

In My View: from “The Historical Jesus” to understanding Jesus, historically, April 2010

Gnostic Breakthrough, May 2010