The Scholar Who Is Changing NT Studies Forever...
That there is a stagnation in New Testament studies (particularly on the historical Jesus) is a given in our current decade. Consensus opinions have been long-cemented and aspects of the field that have been dropped as antiquated are yet to be replaced by more robust methodologies or perspectives. You are hard pressed to find new and exciting elements to biblical studies in the 2020s. But I have found that one scholar, though not exactly out of the blue, is changing things for the better to reorient the discipline: Chris Keith. Keith burst onto the scene of NT studies in the late 2000s with his doctoral dissertation The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John, and the Literacy of Jesus (2008) which was completed under two legendary NT scholars Helen Bond and Larry Hurtado. Quickly getting revised and republished in the New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents series the following year. Keith immediately set his eyes upon historical Jesus and gospel studies, with a special emphasis on