I meant to send this yesterday. I don't have a comment on the exchange between Ken Olson and Stephen Carlson, except to note that I just read Fabian Udoh's...
... only to the rich, such as> the rich young man (10:17-22), reluctant to give up their riches for the> kingdom and eternal life, but, also, of course, the...
John, <<I don't have a comment on the exchange between Ken Olson and Stephen Carlson, except to note that I just read Fabian Udoh's book *To Caesar What is...
Ken, Can I ask where you intend to go with the answer? Doe you have a hypothesis in development that this solution might support or shoot down? While I have...
... hypothesis in development that this solution might support or shoot down?>> No, new hypothesis from me. I just don't think the RSV is so bad here. Sorry,...
The date of Quirinius' famous census is not the only problem with identifying it as the census mentioned in Luke. There's also the problem that that...
... <<In 1912, however, the discovery by W. M. Ramsey of a fragmentary inscription at Antioch of Pisidia arguably established Quirinius was in Syria on a...
Dear Listers, I need your help. As some of you know, I engaged in a critique of Kenneth Bailey’s theory of oral tradition on XTalk in a series of posts on...
... [much snipped] ... Ted, My response is as an anthropologist. Dictionary definitions are supposed to be normative. They often have to offer secondary...
Ted, I look forward to reading your finished article. Your reference to the *samar* roots of the 1001 Nights reminded me of a book that I read years ago:...
... Speaking of Arabic- Joshua Sabih has just completed a doctoral dissertation at Copenhagen on the development of the Arabic language. Ted, if you want his...
... desert Arabic) and sectarian variants (e.g., Shi'ite vs. Sunni vs. Wahhabi). The Arabic speech community is widely dispersed, and local usages may vary....
... Now wait, Jeffery, let's not jump to conclusions. What Ted's Arabists told him was all the same thing, and all disagreed with Bailey. The thrust of my ...
... Bob, and others, I had to go out of town yesterday afternoon and have tried to reply to the posts I have received via crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com, but my...
... [snip] ... Bob, I agree that dictionary definitions are considered normative for a given language, and often supply secondary defintions to account for...
... [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] ... Well, this might not be good math. The 15% implies that 85% is preserved. So the progression would go: 85% of 85% of...
... haflat samar, from Egyptian Arabic sources, and confirmed by general Arabists, is sufficient to return the ball to his (or his supporter's) court, if they...
I'm sorry, but there seems to be a fundamental problem with stereotyping Wisconsin Muslims within an intellectual category that can be retrojected two thousand...
Joseph, whose post(s) are you charging with stereotyping and with retrojecting? Jeffery Hodges "Joseph T. Edmiston, FAICP" <edmiston@...> wrote: I'm...
Jeffery, If what Joseph says is true, I believe this would mean that Ted need not show that the modern "haflat samar" is not as Bailey describes it, because...
Do you think someone could review the bidding on this controversy. I have been in the hospital and was unable to see the original exchange. Since no one has...
Actually, I take this back. Sorry for bothering the group. As soon as I accessed the website I was able to reread the whole controversy. I made the ...
<<<<In 1912, however, the discovery by W. M. Ramsey of a fragmentary inscription at Antioch of Pisidia arguably established Quirinius was in Syria on a...
... not ... [Ted's long summary of essays on this subject contra my views cut.] I try again. If I may…. I'm still worried about the poor old woman giving...
... Ha! I interrupt at this point, on the chance that this question was not purely rhetorical. Besides, I rather like methodological issues. Anyway, this...
... Thank you, John. I hope to be able to get it finished and in publication. ... Thank you for drawing my attention to Naddaff's work and the Miquel quote ...
On September 12, R. S. Brenchley wrote: [quoting David Hindley]>>I am not so sure I want to postulate a hypothetical "first" governorship of Syria by Quirinius...
Although Aramaic was the spoken language of Jesus and the Palestinian population in the 1st century, Hebrew was the language of the literate (about 3% of the...