There appears to be some misinformation being spread. Although SEPTA is on strike, the trains are still running and you will be able, if you wish, to take...
there is only one train at the airport and it goes to center city. you can go to Market East Station and walk to convention center. No need to switch trains...
Richard, ... Don't scholars rent cars? If you're visiting London, Tokyo, New York City or Chicago, that's another thing. It's worth the $50-60. Respectfully, ...
... Nope- we spend all our money on books- so we take the cheapest form of transportation we can find. Rental cars are for well-to-do Donald Trumpites. Jim --...
... At the SBL meetings I've attended, I usually just shared a cab from/to the airport or took a shuttle. (Jim's right about the books, though.) Stephen -- ...
On October 31, Jeffrey Gibson wrote about Anne Rice's ... That was then, but this is now. Evidently Rice has become a Tom Wright fan, so the bishop's disdain...
Ah yes.. nothing like good ol' dispassionate and even-handed scholarship ‹ isn't it great that we are not like the great unwashed, these people of the land...
Loren Rosson III ... No comment necessary. But what happened to the scholars she recommended with such enthusaism?<< Sounds like she has also read S G F...
At 07:03 AM 11/3/2005, David Hindley wrote: [snip] ... I certainly agree with David on this point. Bob Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D. University of Hawaii Honolulu,...
... I don't get this. Wasn't Judaism changed mostly with respect to its reliance on the Temple cult? And didn't the realia of the cult figure only very...
... It also, as a result, changed the authority structure of Judaism. This was a huge change. The advent of Rabbinic Judaism could not happen until after the...
... I also question what the influence of the destruction of Jerusalem would have been on the Christian communities in Asia Minor, which seems to constitute...
... Yes, but it didn't really become *the* form of Judaism until some time after the destruction of the Temple. The rabbinic takeover was a slow process, and...
... I can't tell the difference between this reasoning and the reasoning that the Civil War really had no effect on the culture of Southern States because it...
... I'm really not arguing that the Destruction had no impact on Judaism (although I think that impact is often greatly exaggerated). I'm mostly talking about...
For many scholars, the synoptic problem is not an end, but a means to an end: understanding the historical Jesus. I can see how these two issues are related...
... I don't think so. Fredriksen and Allison certainly accept Q. Wright would come the closest, though he's not so much anti-Q as he is a-Q. (Meaning that...
... Wright is not just non-Q, but he doesn't seem to do much with source criticism. FOr a "text cruncher" like myself, that was disappointing. Crossan, on ...
... Stephen, Farrer himself includes a sketch in his STUDY IN ST MARK, which of course leaves Q out of account but is more noteworthy for identifying Paul's...
Hi Stephen, ... I agree that this is pretty much what we see. How then one assesses those "deeds" as to their historicity is a really big deal. ... I agree...
... This is certainly a fair point, but I think now, with all the work into the redactional history of Q, the same issue rears its head with Q too. Q, as it...
Dear Everyone, As of late my research on the historical Peter has been engaged in trying to make some historical and psychological sense of his origins and...
I am not up to date on the Bethsaida excavations, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. These sites are not far apart. Also, Tiberias became the ...
As a newcomer to X-talk, may I ask precisely which sayings of Jesus cannot be found anywhere in the world's literature in B.C.E.? Anthony D'Amato Leighton...
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"You have heard it said, but I say to you...." But are you asking us to prove a negative? That is, of course, completely impossible. Best, Jim ... -- D. Jim...
... Hi Stephen, ... Agreed. Granting Q and granting something like the current stratifications, then the least that one can say is that the speech in Q1 is...