To all, For a bit of fun check out the cartoon on page 9 of the May 1 "New Yorker." It does a nice job of capturing the newest chapter in the story of Jesus...
Edmund has the details and links on his blog- http://edmund.becoming.ca/2006/05/03/603/ Jim -- Jim West, ThD "Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat." ...
For those interested: A Double Take on Early Christianity An Interview with Rodney Stark _http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=13-01-044-i_ ...
The media blitz surrounding the popular novel by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code continues to spur the interest of both religious scholars and the general public....
I don't know if people are aware of this promotion, but I imagine that I am not the only one who relies on these! The Sources Chrétiennes are about to issue...
From Jim West: ******* Listers may find this project to be of interest: http://www.bluecord.org/biblewiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage Kevin's idea that only...
To Tony Buglass, John McBryde, Jeff Peterson and others: On April 12 I initiated the thread," Judas and Judas' Betrayal: Markan Creations," (Crosstalk2...
Welcome back Ted. Hope things are going better for you these days. Others might have mentioned this, but my fundamental concern here is that appealing to...
... Just as a quick aside- the "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" is particularly hazardous. The New Testament, after all, never says Jesus...
Hi Jim No it's not hazardous at all. Just good sense. Nor does it lead to your conclusion since it only denies the negative. It does not affirm the positive....
Hi Rikk, I agree that we cannot dogmatically say things didn't happen just because no one tells us they didn't. At the same time, it seems equally hazardous,...
Hi Jim, I don't quite follow. Since I was not asserting that 1 Cor 11 proved anything either way about Judas (nor saying that something happened even when we...
... But the whole question with 1 Cor 11:23 is what the text means to say, and there are indicators pointing in at least two directions: 1) If Paul's usage of...
... Existence of the antecedent Eucharist tradition would not, however, imply existence of an antecedent betrayal tradition simply because they are conjoined...
... Good point, and I suppose it needs to be registered as a possibiilty, although when Paul wants to refer unambiguously to Jesus' offer of himself, he uses...
... Right. For that reason alone I think "was given up" or words to that effect is the sense of the passage Paul intended, but one always has to consider the...
... Rikk, I have been away for a speaking engagement since you sent your post, and have just found time while away to respond to you. Given the vagaries of...
Jeff Peterson wrote on May 9, 2006 at 9:00 PM ... Jeff, with regard to your insight on the quasi-mythical narrative of the pre-Pauline eucharistic tradition,...
Ted, good to hear from you and thanks for the clarification. Re Paul and Judas we are agreed: we cannot turn to him for evidence that Judas existed or betrayed...
I have only been able to keep half an eye on this interesting debate, being somewhat preoccupied facilitating Muslims throwing rocks at the devil (off-topic)....
Yes, even though you thought it was all put to bed and tucked in with a little teddy bear, Shanks, et al, are still engaged in defending the authenticity of...
... From: "Jim West" <jwest@...> To: <crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:21 PM Subject: [XTalk] more on the james ossuary ... ...
Hello List: I'm trying to make sense of Matthew's infancy narrative. Can any one help me? I have in my head that 6-4 BCE is the typical range offered for the...
Zeba Crook
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Hi- perhaps you are over-reading the significance of "in those days" and the other markers. These seem to me reflective of the standard narrative introduction...
Zeb, I wonder if part of the problem is taking "en tais hemerais" too precisely? Matt uses it in 24:38 to describe the time before the flood which is a ...
I must admit that Matt. 3.1 has always astonished me too and I suspect that it's one of those places where the chapter and verse divisions distract us from...
Hi, Zeba. We had a lot of fun with this in the run up to the Millennium. We reckoned it was a proof that God has a sense of humour, that he was letting us...
Mark, Perhaps it's inherent in our Australian heritage, but I don't mind poking the possum as we say. I'm intrigued at the ease with which you say "surely ...
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