Hello all, I'm not a regular contributer, but remembered this group had a lot of great information and discussion on the James ossuary when that was a hot...
... I met the author of this self published piece some time ago. Let's just say that both (a) the title of the larger "book" from which it comes, namely, _Rome...
... just ... comes, ... premise ... from, ... hardly ... about ... (Death and ... Many thanks Jeffrey, The book you recommended is quite a bargain so will...
When the Synoptics speak of beggars, it seems that they are always male. Was there a sociological stigma associated with female beggary? Why do the Gospels...
Hello Jim, I believe that a big problem for women who were widowed (or divorced) and didn't have someone to care for them was they'd often end up in ...
Marcia and Jim: Actually, that is not a bad guess!!! Prostitutes were often those women whose husbands had died, whose families would not take them back, and...
Davis, Robert C.
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Jan 7, 2004 12:08 am
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... Thats my view as well. ... and who wants an old man prostitute? not even caligula. ;-) I'm puzzled by the complete lack of reference to women begging. ...
... thus that there were female beggars is highly likely, I would think. Me too- but its the lack of any mention at all that is so amazing. Men are mentioned...
Jim: Let's recall the Palestinian Jewish context: women were not much mentioned for much of anything--thus the original oral tradition might have been just as...
Davis, Robert C.
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Jan 7, 2004 4:05 am
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... Let's start by being more precise with the lexical categories. I take it that you have in mind two NT passages: NRS Mark 10:46//Luke 18:35 They came to...
Thank you Bob, this was very helpful! Jim +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Jim West Pastor, Petros Baptist Church http://biblical-studies.org -- Biblical...
Bob: Actually, I believe we have the beginnings, at least, of just such a sociology. The clue, however, to the existence and scope of begging is not to be...
Davis, Robert C.
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Jan 7, 2004 6:51 pm
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I will be away until January 12. I will respond to your messages upon my return. Thank you. Henry Carrigan...
Henry Carrigan
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Jan 7, 2004 6:52 pm
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Dear colleagues, I am happy to announce that the Ancient World Mapping Center has just added twenty-eight new maps relating to central themes in Roman history...
Those of you who are not on the John_Lit e-mail group might want to know that today (1/9/2004) there have been a number of fine posts discussing the possible...
There are some old members whose addresses are being noted by yahoo as dead or creating message delivery problems: Rick Summer, Tom Barnes, Mark Rutledege,...
I thought listers may like to know that born this day in 1825 was, Brooke Foss Westcott, near Birmingham, England. He was appointed the chair of Professor of...
... Wow! That's rapid career advancement! ( ; OK, more seriously: I realize Jim does not mean to imply that one event followed immediately on the other....
Ken: The question, I believe, would probably have been irrelevant to Paul. It would have been the fact of the appearing, not the timing, that would have...
Davis, Robert C.
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Jan 12, 2004 2:39 pm
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... Nice to see the Birmingham link. Westcott went to King Edward VI School in Birmingham just down the road from where I am sitting now. He met J. B....
... take it ... disciples ... a blind ... beggar ... ask for ... verse ... out and ... loudly, ... In addition, of course, Acts 3:1-10 should be noted as the...
Recently, Terje Bergersen, a specialist in Gnostic studies, wrote to the GThomas list about MS 2650 in The Schoeyen Collection of the Norwegian Institute of...
... Here's a reply that William Petersen just posted to my forwarding Mike's message to the T-C List. Yours, Jeffrey ******* Just a brief comment. I have not...
... I would rather see this cycle of understandings, in public print, than to see the alternative, which is what happened to the Dead Sea Scrolls, which for a...
Many thanks to our esteemed Jeffrey Gibson, who knew the best place to ask the question I raised, and took the trouble to put it there. I've reported...
Traditionally, Jesus was born in a stable because there was no room at the inn/guesthouse. Do we know anything about 1st century inns? Would working people...
Listers may want to take a look at this web page- http://www.cinemark.com/assets/011304home/passionwebpage.htm Jim +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr Jim West ...
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