James M. Robinson

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James M. Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. He is a member of the Jesus Seminar, who is arguably the most prominent Q and Nag Hammadi scholar of the 20th century. He is also a major contributor to The International Q Project, acting as an editor for most of their publications. Particularly, he laid the ground for John S. Kloppenborg's seminal work into the compositional history of Q, by arguing its genre as an ancient wisdom collection.

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• The Problem of History in Mark (1957)
• A New Quest of the Historical Jesus (1959)
• With Helmut Koester) Trajectories Through Early Christianity (1971)
• Editor, The Future of Our Religious Past: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Bultmann
• General Editor, The Nag Hammadi Library in English (1977; 4th ed. 1996)
• With Stephen J. Patterson, The Fifth Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age (1998)
• Co-editor with with Paul Hoffmann and John S. Kloppenborg, The Critical Edition of Q (2000)
• Editor, The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English (2002)
• The Gospel of Jesus: In Search of the Original 'Good News (2000)
• The Sayings Gospel Q: Collected Essays (2006, edited by Christoph Heil and Joseph Verheyden)
• The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel (2006)
• Jesus according to the Earliest Witnesses (2007)