... Gordon replied (surely tongue in cheek, I thought, but maybe not...) ... First of all, the Bank of New Hampshire is never crowded shoulder-to-shoulder with...
Hi Ernie, ... Thanks for writing of how you see this fitting in. ... So, in this case and as regards the coinage, Jesus was stricter in interpretation of the...
Hi Loren, ... What are your sources for this judgment? BTW I looked up in JJ Rouseau's book ("Jesus and His World"). He notes, based on conservative...
[Gordon Raynal] ... interpretation of the commandment about "graven images" than were the Pharisees?< Jesus' complaint is clearly articulated: "robbers cave",...
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Karel Hanhart wrote on March 30, 2005 [TJW] ... Karel, I have always been indebted to continental scholars. Just check the bibliography of my Mark-Traditions...
[Loren] ... [Gordon] ... Obviously. The point is that it would have been easy for Jesus to get away after raising hell with the money-changers, and evade...
Ernie Pennells wrote on March 30, 2005: , ... Ernie, I apologize for the delay in my response. The issue as I see it is not whether or not Jesus was armed but...
Hi Loren, ... What do you think about "the pandemonium" issue? I don't know how many of these coins (with the other trade ins) would be on a given table, but...
Ted, ... (authentic ["red" or "pink"] or inauthentic ["gray" or "black"]: see Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover and the Jesus Seminar, _Five Gospels_, 549-553) and...
On the recent History Channel program on J the B, a few of the talking heads, including Murphy-O'Connor asserted that "some" believe/have argued that the...
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, died today. May he rest in peace. George Weigel, author of "Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II" said in a...
[Josephus] ... grew numerous. They made use of small swords, not much different in length from the Persian acinacae, but somewhat crooked, and like the Roman...
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... Joan Taylor gives the idea credence. See The Immerser: John the Baptist Within Second-Temple Judaism, pp 151-153. Against the common idea that Jesus was...
... Thanks for this. Does Taylor note if she is alone in this view? That is to say, does she adduce anyone else who has suggested/argued for this view? ...
Jeffrey, ... She doesn't cite anyone else in the text or footnotes, so I assume she is one of very few who believe this. I've not come across the argument...
List -- This week's Library Journal reviews Jesus and Politics: Confronting the Powers, by Alan Storkey (ISBN 0-8010-2784-5). It is described as a "helpful ...
Listers may be interested in the latest Jesus sighting http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0405jesus-rocker05-ON.html Jim -- Jim West Biblical Studies...
The Gospels provide ample evidence that Sabbath was a high profile issue between Jesus and his antagonists. It stands alongside sharing table with tax...
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Thanks you, Ernie, for this interesting message. ... but not for the nascent church; But perhaps sabbath observance is included in Paul's reference to...
... Yes, and also "Some judge one day to be better than another, while others judge all days to be alike", in Rom 14:5. I also wonder whether there is not some...
[John Poirier] ... "days, and months, and times, and years" (Gal 4:10).< [Liz Williams] ... judge all days to be alike", in Rom 14:5.< Agreed, but I am not...
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... I agree with you about the chapter 5 healing, but for the healing in chapter 9, I thought the problem escalted to Jesus's alleged violation of the sabbath,...
... Well, a few people refer to the prohibition of kneading in this connection (in m. Shab. 7.2), and I've seen a discussion on which types of anointing were...
... Good thought! Although we normally think of a TEKTWN as a woodworker, construction in that time and place also routinely involved making mudbricks, and it...
... Bob, I apologize for not getting back to you by now. You have posed below some very good issues to me which I want to address adequately. To do so I ...
David Hinley wrote on April 2, 2005 ... David, I apologize for not replying to your post already. It so happens that some of the issues you raise with me in...
Ernest, Before one enters the discussion on the strict or lenient observance of the Sabbath itself, one must explain the peculiar use of a) the use of sabbaton...