Hello, Could anyone supply me offlist with telephone, postal or email addresses for Wesley Isenberg, who translated the Gospel of Philip. We would like to...
Andrew, Here are the details I have. Michael Wesley W. Isenberg Concordia University Mailing Address Contact Information 129 Driftwood Lane South Yarmouth, MA...
Jodi has an essay in the latest JBL that listers may find of intersest. And I apologize if folk have already seen it. The title- Ossuaries and the Burials of...
This article was promoted by the Council for Exceptional Children under the headline, "Biblical literacy courses on the rise" I guess it depends on what you...
What was so special about the miracle of the loaves (Mark 6: 30-44) that the disciples did not understand? (Mark 6:52) I did not find so far a satisfactory...
In a message dated 5/5/2005 9:05:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joseph5@... writes: I did not find so far a satisfactory answer to this question. What...
Joseph, you are correct that there was something special about these miracles that the disciples failed to understand; what is more, biblical scholarship has...
Apolonio Latar III gave his interpretation of the feeding of the five thousand. I thank him for his contribution. To interpret a passage of the gospel in the...
Hi Joseph, ... A couple of thoughts. First, in Exodus 13 and 14 we have the inauguration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread followed by the Exodus through the...
i.e. that's the language used over and over for Pharaoh's response to God's pleas through Moses). Response: That one I did not catch. Another thing I found...
... It might be a mistake to look to what occurs in Mark **before** 6:52 for the key to what it was the disciples don't understand since it is a feature of...
Hi Apolonio, ... Glad that "hardening hearts" language notation helped. I think what your "pass them by" thought shows is just how this sort of story telling...
... I cannot bring myself to believe that the author of the story would have intended for the disciples to get a connection which is barely hinted at. What the...
My original question was not about the interpretation of the feeding of the crowd. My problem was with the following statement: "They did not understand about...
Well, its been nice to see some activity on the list dealing with Mark. I must say that when I saw all of these headings about not understanding about the...
Jan Sammer wrote on May 6, 05: <<Joseph, you are correct that there was something special about these miracles that the disciples failed to understand; what is...
Gordon Raynal wrote on May 6, 05: <<In this sort of theological plotting they must because what God is working through Jesus is only going to come clear, so to...
Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote on May 6, 05: <<It might be a mistake to look to what occurs in Mark **before** 6:52 for the key to what it was the disciples don't...
J. Ted Blakley wrote on May 7, 05: <<First, I think that when attempting to come to an understanding of this admittedly enigmatic comment by the narrator, it...
Joseph, I will have to put off replying properly to your query for a few days, until I get back home, where I have some of my notes on the subject. What I have...
One should follow Gordon's trail untill we come to a crossroads, I think. 1. This episode belongs in a passover haggadah developing a Christian actualization...
listers, especially in oregon, may find this of interest http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/05/08/news/religion/satrel03.txt jim -- Jim West Biblical...
Hi Joseph, ... Sorry for the lack of clarity, but the "they must" refers to "the fail miserably" in the previous sentence. Others have written about the ...
... Sorry Gordon, but this sort of verbiage is no substitute for doing the math, which is what the Markan Jesus very emphatically asks, almost forces the...
The following are exegetical notes by Brian Stoffregen of John 17:1-11 that uses Malina and Rohrbaugh's (Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John) as an...
Have I been missing a discussion, or are these notes from elsewhere? Bob, you might be interested in reading more on patronage and benefaction in the ancient...
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... No doubt this rather obvious (from the TANAK heritage) use of numbers is an aspect of understanding this element of the feeding stories. But I don't think...
... Those were notes from elsewhere. ... But I also note that some of that work (see Crossan, Horsley & others) has been devoted to economics, demonstrating...
... Perhaps not, I did not mean to so restrict the lack of understanding on the part of the disciples. However Mark's rendition of the story makes it quite...
... So far as I can see, Mark says absolutely nothing in Mk. 8:14-21 about the disciples being **worried** about anything, let alone about "not having...
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