This theme is probably pretty well worked out by now, but I did get an answer from my Paul scholar to my questions. It was brief and focused on a) a fact and...
Bob Schacht writes: "It is unknown in the history of Judaism to hold that the religious leader is God." Rick: What about 4Q521? Not an explicit deification of...
Here's an interesting study of Messianism in recent history: Anthropology & Medicine Publisher: Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis Group ...
I want to recommend-- *strongly* recommend-- Stephen J. Patterson's The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the search for meaning (1998). I take some risk...
There is a book that has been out for a while, published under the auspices of the Biblical Archaeological Society of Hershel Shanks, that records a conference...
Is there, on the Web, a listing of any quotes of or allusions to the words of Jesus as reported in the gospels in other writings of the NT? Thanks in advance ...
I. We might enquire not only a) about what Jesus expected, but also b) where his expectations lay along the spectrum from certitudes to convictions to hopes to...
"You can't tell your scholars without a program!" I have finally come to a completion of the task that I set out to fulfill some time ago of providing a guide...
I think Steve D has a point - the conviction that Jesus was raised appears to be the engine that drives the NT. As far as Paul is concerned, it has almost...
It might help to recap this discussion as far as I see it (I apologize in advance if I have left out someone's telling observation, it's a tough job wading...
Hi, while I haven't had time to read your summaries yet, this looks like it will be a good resource for people who are interested in HJ research and want a...
I my previous post, I incorrectly said that 1 Clement contained *no* aphorisms from Jesus. This is obviously an error on my part, as the sayings from 13:2 and...
Two points: 1) If, as seems likely, we need to see Jesus' public activity as cut off abruptly by his unforseen death, almost as soon as it got started --Mk...
Rikk, 1) Much of your argument follows ever-widening trajectories, remote from Pauline textual evidence. I will leave it to others to follow you on them. 2)...
... Now honestly, how can a CANADIAN book prize be prestigious? And you'll be interested to know, Mark, that the last THREE books to win this prize were all on...
Question: In Geza Vermes' Jesus the Jew (1973), he asks, "...it should be asked how the title 'lord' and the office of an authoritative teacher relate to one ...
Frank, I do remember some months back there was a thread about Cephas and Peter. I did not pay much attention to it, but read some of the posts as a...
I'm just catching up with a backlog of emails and was happy to see the notice attached below and thought other Xtalkers would be pleased too. Congratulations,...
... argument that he either didn't know or wasn't interested in the historical life of Jesus or his teachings. He obviously thought other things were more ...
Hi everyone, I just recently posted a message to soc.history.ancient because a discussion brought up my article "Dating Early Christian Gospel" published in ...
Mark has a sentence of preface and is fast into the Baptist scenes. John begins with a prologue, a cosmological poem, before his peculiar Baptist scenes....
Mark has a sentence of preface and is fast into the Baptist scenes. John begins with a prologue, a cosmological poem, before his peculiar Baptist scenes....
1) Steve Dingeldein you answered Steve Davies' despairing question of why--on earth!-- would anyone have wanted to preserve an account of Jesus' teaching by...
1) In 1999 Polebridge published Robert Miller's "The Jesus Seminar and its Critics" Towards the end of ch 3, 'Understanding the Findings of the Jesus Seminar',...
Do Jesus' known, multiply attested teachings show evidence of a core of ethical concerns? Yes. Do the various writings that work with/ from differing literary...
Jesus; In Search Of His Footsteps Seminar in Uppsala, Sweden, Sept. 2-5 2002 SHEDULE September 2 08.00 Registration 08.30-09.15 Lecture I Octavian Baban,...
... David, Now that I have my own copy of the book, I can see what you mean. You might call it poetic justice since, by Neusner's account, "Smith made his...
