Applies the work of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, Edward Said and several others on international politics and the supportive role of the media, intellectuals and academics to contemporary Christian origins and New Testament scholarship.

Preface Part I: Christian Origins and New Testament Studies in Ideologically and Historically Contaminated Contexts 1. Introduction: Reading the History of New Testament and Christian Origins Scholarship 2. The Politics of the Bibliobloggers Appendix: Selected Unedited Excerpts from the Now Defunct Dr Cathey's Blog for Purposes of Reference Part II: Neo-Orientalism: Orientalism, Hideously Emboldened 3. The Context: A Clash of Civilisations?
4. Anglo-American Power and Liberal Scholarship: Scholarly Reconstructions of the Social World of Christian Origins Part III: 'Jewishness', Jesus and Christian Origins since 1967 5. The Context: Judaism and Christianity; Israel and the West 6. Jewish...but not that Jewish Conclusions

James G. Crossley is Professor of Bible, Culture and Politics in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.