R. Steven Notley

R. Steven Notley

R. Steven Notley is the Dean of Religious Studies at Pillar College in Newark, New Jersey. Previously he was the Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins on the New York City campus of Alliance University (2001-2023). He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, where he studied with David Flusser.

Notley lived sixteen years in Jerusalem with his wife and four children, during which time he was the founding chair of the New Testament Backgrounds program at the Jerusalem University College. He has been leading groups of students and laypeople to Israel and the eastern Mediterranean region for over 35 years. He is the author of many books and articles. He continues collaborative research and publication with Israeli scholars in the fields of historical geography, ancient Judaism and Christian origins.

Among his list of publications, he collaborated with Flusser on the historical biography, The Sage from Galilee: Rediscovering Jesus' Genius (Eerdmans 2007); with Anson Rainey (Tel Aviv University) the monumental biblical atlas, The Sacred Bridge: Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World (Carta Publishing 2005); with Ze'ev Safrai (Bar Ilan University) an annotated translation of Eusebius' important description of Roman Palestine, Eusebius, Onomasticon: A Triglott Edition with Notes and Commentary (Brill 2005). He rejoined Safrai for their second work, a pioneering collection and translation of the earliest rabbinic parables that provide the literary and religious context for the parables of Jesus, The Parables of the Sages (Carta 2011).

Since 2016 he has served as the Academic Director of the El Araj Excavation Project in its search for first-century Bethsaida-Julias, the lost city of the Apostles.

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  • Anti-Jewish Tendencies in the Synoptic Gospels
  • The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: What Would Jesus Say?
  • Book Review: Robert Lindsey’s A Comparative Greek Concordance of the Synoptic Gospels
  • By the Finger of God
  • Can Gentiles Be Saved?
  • The Cross and the Jewish People
  • The Cross: No Way Around It—for Jesus, or His Disciples
  • Divorce and Remarriage in Historical Perspective
  • Do Not Be Anxious
  • First-century Jewish Use of Scripture: Evidence from the Life of Jesus
  • “Give unto Caesar”: Jesus, the Zealots and the Imago Dei
  • If a Jew mistreats a Jew, does that make him anti-Semitic?
  • If Your Eye Be Single
  • Jesus and the Essene Passover
  • Jesus and the Son of Man
  • The Jesus Who Changes People’s Lives!
  • Jesus’ Command to “Hate”
  • Jesus’ Jewish Command to Love
  • John’s Baptism of Repentance
  • Landmark New Work by Professor David Flusser Explores Jesus’ Jewishness
  • Let Him Who Is Without Sin…
  • Let the One Who Has Ears to Hear, “Hear!”
  • The Man Who Would Be King
  • Mark’s Account of the Cleansing of the Temple: Literary Device or Historical Fact?
  • Matthew 1:1-25: In the Year of Jubilee?
  • Matthew 2:1-23: A Nazorean Shall Be Called
  • Notley Lecture: “Between the Chairs: New Testament Evidence for the Hebrew Jesus Spoke”
  • Parables on the Character of God
  • Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
  • The Sabbath Was Made for Man
  • The Search for Bethsaida: Is It Over?
  • The Season of Redemption
  • The Sin Against the Spirit: Matt. 12:31-32; Mark 3:28-29; Luke 12:10
  • Something Greater Than the Temple
  • Tabernacles: The Lord’s Feast
  • The Teaching of Balaam
  • What is the Jerusalem School’s hermeneutical criterion?
  • Who Questioned Jesus?