Just in case you may be interested: The Jesus Dynasty (Simon & Schuster) is to be released on April 4th and should be available in English in bookstores in the...
Rikk, Many thanks for your thoughtful response. I apologize that my schedule prevents me now from giving it the full response that it deserves. I will be ...
David B. Gowler
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Thanks David for taking the time. Much appreciated. Sounds like you're busy and I've got to get some things done as well. Take care Rikk...
... Agreed! ... Before delving into the evidence, let me say in general that the difference in our approaches can be described metaphorically in this way: We...
Hi Bob, Sorry this one must have slipped past. We are all agreed there is diversity and in the NT. And I assume that you agree the issue is not its existence...
Listers may find this report interesting: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/uonc-ndp033106.php In part, "New Discoveries Point to "Cave of John...
... Hi, Rikk, Thanks for your response. I'm not sure whether I agree on that last point or not. In some ways, I'm more interested in whether the apostolic...
I have a question of etiquette: May I post openings that we have at Tulane that are relevant to members of this list? Many thanks! -- cbrady @ tulanehonors.org...
... Thanks! Here they are. Formal inquiries should go to the email addresses listed, but feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions. Yours, Chris We...
This one will make you laugh- http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/fsu-jwo040406.php It suggests that Jesus walked on ice- on the sea of Galilee........
... Rikk, True. ... This may seem self-evident, but surely it cannot be applied to the situation of Paul. For, whether intentional or otherwise, Paul's gospel...
HI Ron, haven't heard from your cheery self for a while. Hope all is well. ... Not quite sure what you mean here. I thought we were talking about diversity ...
This Sunday at 8 pm the National Geographic Channel airs its program on the Gospel of Judas. Says the blurb: Discovered by chance in the 1970s, a document...
For you readers of Coptic- you can download a pdf of the Gospel of Judas here: http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/about_coptic_text.html -- Jim...
... Rikk, Yes, thanks. ... As I understand it, the topic was diversity within the early Jesus movement. ... Crucial here, surely, is how we view the outcome of...
As posted by Richard Wilson on Jim West's Biblical Studies List: I imagine that someone posted soemthing like this earlier perhaps, but just so anyone...
What NYT called 'excerpts' has turned out to be the complete English text. The Coptic text appeared first at the National Geographic site: sometime today the...
... Well, you might hold off until their next book. I pre-ordered both books through Amazon, assuming that one was the scholarly edition, and the other the...
From the NYT <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/opinion/08pagels.html?th&emc=th> ... ==================================================== Bob Schacht Hawaii ...
Bob, I must be missing something, but I'm having a hard time seeing why the fuss. This seems to be a relatively late, gnostic, and idiosyncratic attempt by ...
I agree with Rikk. I suspect this is a case of scholars getting excited so that the public will get excited, or to attract some media attention to the find...
Zeba Crook
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Apr 8, 2006 4:14 pm
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Hi all, Am I missing something here? Is it not agreed that this is the gospel mentioned by Irenaeus? Would that not make it about mid-second century at the...
And RE Pagels¹ comments in NYT she seems to be implying that the only reason Iranaeus and others labeled such texts as ³heretical² is because they related...
one also notes that much in the canonical gospels is also secret, if by that one means not public. Indeed all of Jesus' resurrection appearances fit this ...