Author: Randel Helms

Randel Helms is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where he teaches courses in the Bible as literature. He has published two books on the fantasy. fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien and is now working on a study of the fictional aspects of the four Gospels.


Biblical Scholarship Simplified
 Free Inquiry Volume 14, No. 4
Fall 1994
 Randel Helms
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Gnostic Christianity
 Free Inquiry Volume 09, No. 4
Fall 1989
 Randel Helms
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The Study of the Gospels as Literary Fiction
 Free Inquiry Volume 09, No. 2
Spring 1989
 Randel Helms
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The Dangers of Apocalyptic Thinking
 Free Inquiry Volume 04, No. 3
Summer 1984
 Randel Helms
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On Miracles
 Free Inquiry Volume 04, No. 2
Spring 1984
 Randel Helms
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How the Gospels Tell a Story
 Free Inquiry Volume 02, No. 3
Summer 1982
 Randel Helms
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The Nativity Legends
 Free Inquiry Volume 02, No. 2
Spring 1982
 Randel Helms
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Resurrection Fictions
 Free Inquiry Volume 01, No. 4
Fall 1981
 Randel Helms
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