Okay, I have several important questions I am working with today. They are: #1 Did the first-century Jews anticipate the coming of a Messiah? #2 If so, what...
Does anyone know, or know where the issue is discussed, how many people who did not come from a Jewish or Samaritan background knew Hebrew in the centuries...
... Thanks Mike for pointing me in a couple of directions. I am still not content with this. Does anyone know of any figure called "messiah" besides Jesus...
Morton Smith wrote in "Monasteries and their Manuscripts" (Archaeology 1960 p.173): "...persons hunting for manuscript material should not neglect printed ...
There is an obvious flaw in Meir Ilan's study: he doesn't factor in the fact that a certain percentage of the population would have been priestly, and would...
<<Thanks Mike for pointing me in a couple of directions. I am still not content with this. Does anyone know of any figure called "messiah" besides Jesus...
... If this discussion of "Messiah in 1st Century" sounds familiar and gives you that feeling of deja vu, it should. David Ritsema asked the same question on...
... From: <RSBrenchley@...> To: <crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 5:59 PM Subject: [XTalk] Messiah in 1st Century ... In the 1st...
The lexical information on the ancient use of XXX is fascinating, but I think that by focusing on it we are moving off Mark's original question (or at least...
Listers: Please accept my apologies for the message reproduced below; I was cleaning out my "Drafts" box and inadvertently sent a message I started composing...
... Jeff's inadvertent question and Jack's response should be placed in the context of a thread on this subject on this list from April 20 to 24. "Palestine"...
Bob Schacht wrote on July 23: Bob, I apologize for the delay in my reply to your response to my post of 7/19, thus: [snip] ... Thank you. ... And that is the...
At 01:55 PM 8/6/2006, Theodore Weeden wrote: Ted, thanks for your response. I have snipped a bunch of our exchanges to ... You still don't seem to be grasping...
Eisenbrauns will be running back-to-school sales on language reference works throughout the month of August. Currently we are offering discounts on Greek and...
The Preliminary program for the DC meeting of the SBL is online and includes this session E-Listers Brown Bag Luncheon 11/19/2006 (Sunday) 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM...
Hi folks How y'all? I hope you're doing fine. I've got a question. It has been observed that in Mark the praised woman who anoints Jesus before his burial,...
... Hey, Steve, welcome back! ... Maybe they weren't so much clueless as overly-influenced by their menfolk, who all had little faith and long mouths, and were...
Steve, As I read the story in Mark, I have never received the impression that the woman knew that Jesus was going to die soon, or that she intended her...
Hi Steve, From memory (books packed in boxes) I think Crossan near the end of WKJ discusses all that - round about page 185 methinks. Best wishes, steph in...
Hi Steve, Well I can remember you discussing it on Crosstalk in the early days. I wasn't there from the beginning (like you and Bob), but I can remember ...