Barrie Wilson, PhD

scholar, educator, author, speaker.

Publications

Barrie's class at the Mushroom, Timna Mines in the Negev in southern Israel. Moses and the Israelites may have passed by this way.
Barrie's class at the Mushroom, Timna Mines in the Negev in southern Israel. Moses and the Israelites may have passed by this way.

Explore ancient mysteries

Latest Book -- How Jesus Became Christian.
St. Martin's Press, USA. Random House, Canada. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
See: How Jesus Became Christian

Selected Articles by Barrie Wilson

Biblical Studies

  • Taking Paul at his Word
  • What's a Messiah to Do?
  • If We Only had Paul what would we know about Jesus

Philosophical Studies

Film Studies

Books

  • Barrie Wilson, Hermeneutical Studies: Dilthey, Sophocles and Plato (Lewiston NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990). Contains articles written on interpretation theory, Plato's Republic, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Bardaisan's treatise On Nature, Fate and Freedom, plus critiques of Rudolf Bultmann's demythologizing and E.D.Hirsch's authorial will.
  • Barrie Wilson, About Interpretation: From Plato to Dilthey - A Hermeneutic Anthology (New York: Peter Lang, 1989). Contains selections of writings on Classical Greek and Early Christian Allegorical methods; Reformation principles for the interpretation of scripture; and modern approaches -- Schleiermacher, Dilthey and Bultmann on textual interpretation.

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Early in my teaching career I published several books on logic. The Anatomy of Argument [University Press of America] was widely used by various State universities. To the Point: Effective Business Communication (no longer available) applied the principles of logic to business communication.