Dear Mark Well, this is the end of the line for me; thanks to everyone for your questions and comments, which have been helpful. Now, to your commments Mark: ...
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Mark Goodacre
marksgoodacre
Apr 5, 2003 3:06 am
Dear Dale Many thanks for your thoughtful answer to my questions about Q; sorry for bringing up the Synoptic Problem. I should be more careful not to come...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 4, 2003 5:29 pm
Dear Jim: Your question is: >>In your opinion, will Jesus return to earth or is this merely a mythological idea?<< I wrote in the last section of the essay on...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 4, 2003 3:53 pm
Dear Bob-- i. I do think that Jesus prophesied the destruction of the temple; see Jesus of Nazareth, pp. 97-101. ii. Grondin's throw away, >>he could hardly...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Apr 4, 2003 1:53 pm
Let me remind Seminar Members that today will be your last day to post messages to Professor Allison. No more questions will be accepted after this evening. So...
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Jim West
drjewest
Apr 4, 2003 2:55 am
Professor Allison, Thanks very much again for honoring us with your time. I have a question and it may well be my last opportunity to ask it of you directly...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Apr 4, 2003 2:53 am
Dale, Thanks again for your patient and thoughtful responses to my questions. On XTalk today, Mike Grondin raised an issue that we have kicked around on that...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 3, 2003 6:47 pm
Dear Bob-- As with the other Bob, I guess I haven't been perfectly clear about everything, and there's been some breakdown in communication -- understandably...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 3, 2003 6:47 pm
Dear Robert Don't know your Coptic Bishop Peter, which might be a good thing given that he has a temper. I'll try to stay calm and go through the linear thing...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 3, 2003 2:30 pm
Dear Bob You know, if we sat down and talked face to face for five minutes, we could settle some of these issues; it's clear that I've misread some of what...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 3, 2003 1:57 pm
Dear Mark Oh my--questions about the existence of Q! I feel out of my depth here. The reason is that while I have continued to read with interest contributions...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Apr 3, 2003 5:43 am
... Dale, First, let me preface my remarks by saying I'm not sure that they are strictly in-bounds. Accordingly, you can compress, delete, or ignore as much as...
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Davis, Robert C.
rdavis@...
Apr 3, 2003 4:36 am
Dear Prof. Allison: Your previous answers concerning the Hell/Gehenna question seem to me to be right on the money. No argument from me on any of it....
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Bob MacDonald
drmacdonald_...
Apr 3, 2003 4:36 am
Dear Dale: I am not sure if I am a very model of a modern hermeutical person - For the record, I do acknowledge hell - as my essays on the evil one will show...
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Mark Goodacre
marksgoodacre
Apr 3, 2003 4:36 am
Dear Dale Many thanks for sharing with us the materials from your new book and also engaging in this most interesting discussion -- it's very much appreciated....
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 2, 2003 8:38 pm
Dear Vince: Your questions are important, and they indicate that I'm not always perfectly clear. Sorry for that. You say that I make five points: 1. Jesus...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 2, 2003 3:23 pm
Dear Bob: i. I'm honestly puzzled as to why anything I've said raises the issue of cultural relativism. I'm a modern person so I try to be tolerant, and I...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 2, 2003 3:23 pm
Dear Bob: Hell, despite its apparent demise, has evidently not been forgotten entirely; you, like so many I run into, seem to be very interested in it....
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Vince Endris
vince_endris@...
Apr 2, 2003 2:21 am
Professor Allison: Thank you so much for the opportunity to converse with you about your work. While studying for my M.T.S. I first read Schweitzer’s _Quest_...
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Bob MacDonald
drmacdonald_...
Apr 2, 2003 2:21 am
Dear Professor Allison Thank you for your detailed replies. When you say "I think Jesus and the early Christians really believed in hell," is this the...
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Bob Schacht
r_schacht
Apr 1, 2003 7:27 pm
... Dale, Again thanks for your thoughtful responses. The segment above is a case in point. But it certainly raises for me the issue of cultural relativism:...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Apr 1, 2003 5:48 pm
Dear Prof. Davis: Thank you very much for your kind comments and thoughtful questions. I'll take things in order: i. You suggest that there is a connection...
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Davis, Robert C.
rdavis@...
Apr 1, 2003 2:59 am
Dear Prof. Allison: Allow me to join with the others in this seminar in expressing thanks to you for your generous contribution of time and energy. No doubt...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Mar 31, 2003 8:49 pm
Dear Bob Let's start with the PS: is Ted right to dismiss Gethsemane by observing that the disciples were asleep? You suggest that the young man Mark was...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Mar 31, 2003 8:46 pm
Dear Loren You ask about asceticism and Jesus. This is a topic I very much enjoyed working on. It's one of those areas that makes modern NT scholars nervous....
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Loren Rosson
RossoIII
Mar 31, 2003 3:14 am
Dale, Thanks for the second round on Malina's ineffable essay. :) A question about asceticism. In your '98 publication you discuss the ascetic practices of...
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Bob MacDonald
drmacdonald_...
Mar 31, 2003 3:14 am
Dear Professor Allison Thanks for your introduction to other writers on the synoptic problem. I have to admit, sometimes I find myself convinced by whomever I...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
jgibson000
Mar 28, 2003 11:07 pm
Professor Allison has requested that he be relieved of having to answer questions for the week end. He will resume giving responses on Monday. But this does...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Mar 28, 2003 4:52 pm
Dear Prof. Schacht: I think I can respond fairly briefly by making three points. First, my main point at the end of the article on Jesus and his Audiences is...
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Dale Allison
DAllison@...
Mar 28, 2003 3:02 pm
Dear Ted: Well, thanks for engaging my arguments so fully. I take your response seriously because while you and Bill are yet voices crying in the wilderness, I...
