... James Tabor's response to Dr. Meyers radio interview today might also be appealing to some listers: http://tinyurl.com/3azwx9 Tim Smith One of the Assorted...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 6, 2007 4:00 pm
Hello Do listers know of any online pre 19th century art depicting Prisca and Aquila? I would be grateful. Thanks Jim -- Jim West, ThD ...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 6, 2007 4:06 pm
Listers may find Tabor's latest blog entry interesting as he responds to Zias. ...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 6, 2007 5:16 pm
The National Geographic Channel is set to air "Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls", a special which discusses the subject of the scrolls authorship -- Sunday, March...
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drjewest
Mar 7, 2007 2:03 pm
The list of scholars involved is quite impressive http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR030707A.html save for Baigent, who is hardly a scholar. Jim ...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 7, 2007 2:06 pm
The list of scholars involved is quite impressive http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR030707A.html save for Baigent, who is hardly a scholar. -- Jim West,...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 7, 2007 11:30 pm
And Chris Brady has the details http://targuman.org/blog/?p=565 The chevron I'm talking about is the "mysterious" one at the Talpiot tomb. -- Jim West, ThD ...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 8, 2007 12:06 am
I saw the documentary last night -- first night it was available to us here in Soviet Canuckistan. I want share a few thoughts on what I saw. (Before I do,...
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Mark Goodacre
marksgoodacre
Mar 8, 2007 3:16 am
... According to James Tabor, the reason they did the DNA on those two was that they were the only ossuaries that had not been vacuumed out, the only ones with...
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Linda and Ernie Penne...
erniepennells
Mar 8, 2007 4:55 pm
[Zeba Crook] ... concluded that if two people were in the same tomb without the same DNA they're probably married.< Maybe we should conclude that Magdalene was...
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Bob Webb
robertlwebb
Mar 8, 2007 5:21 pm
In response to the interchange below between Zeba and Ernie, I think the issue is not that they were in the same *tomb* but rather that their bones were in the...
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Zeba Crook
zcrook@...
Mar 8, 2007 5:27 pm
... They were!? I missed that part. Thanks for telling me. Zeb ... -- Zeba A. Crook Assistant Professor Religion and Classics 2a Paterson Hall Carleton...
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Bob Webb
robertlwebb
Mar 8, 2007 5:37 pm
Zeb, let me clarify. I picked this up from the pre-film discussion in the blogs. I *think* that was the point that they were making. I have not had a chance to...
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Bob Webb
robertlwebb
Mar 8, 2007 5:42 pm
Zeb, I've just gone back and re-read Mark Goodacre's description of the film as he watched it ...
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Zeba Crook
zcrook@...
Mar 8, 2007 6:04 pm
In that case, let me respond to Ernie. I guess I didn't make clear that I didn't think the marriage hypothesis was the only way of interpreting the lack of...
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Lisbeth S. Fried
lizzfried
Mar 8, 2007 6:19 pm
What I don’t understand is how is it legitimate to regard Maraimne as Mary Magdalene based only on the Gospel of Philip, 4th century, when in first century...
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Jim West
drjewest
Mar 9, 2007 2:36 am
Listers might find this to be of interest. http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11681 And thanks to Michael Barber for finding it. -- Jim West, ThD ...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 9, 2007 3:25 am
Thanks again for all the foot work Jim. I find it a terribly sad commentary that Discovery Channel is caving to religious fanaticism. I expect there's a lot...
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peterson@...
jeffpeterson...
Mar 9, 2007 3:58 am
... Zeba, I'm not aware of any violence by any Christians in respect of the tomb documentary, and the conservative Christians among whom I live and work would...
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Chris Weimer
cweb255
Mar 9, 2007 7:18 am
Jeff, James Tabor has admitted to receiving death threats. I don't doubt others did as well. Chris ... surely ... freedom to ... adopt ... than ... where's...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 9, 2007 12:44 pm
Jeff, Your point was well made about freedom of speech, and death threats notwithstanding (surely you're not surprised by that news) I'll take speech over...
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goranson@...
goranson11
Mar 9, 2007 12:55 pm
Carl Bialik ("The Numbers Guy"), "Odds of 'Lost Tomb' Being Jesus' Family Rest on Assumptions," Wall Street Journal, March 9: ...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 9, 2007 1:45 pm
The thing that strikes me as unfair, or unacknowledged, about this article (which was reprinted in this morning's Globe and Mail), is the number of major...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 9, 2007 1:56 pm
Jeff, Your point was well made about freedom of speech, and death threats notwithstanding (surely you're not surprised by that news) I'll take speech over...
21978
Dr. James Gardner
whowasjesus
Mar 9, 2007 2:18 pm
Try this http://www.amazon.com/Priscilla-Aquila-Lois-T-Henderson/dp/0060638729 Jim Jim West <jwest@...> wrote: Hello Do listers know of any online pre...
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Bob MacDonald
drmacdonald_...
Mar 9, 2007 2:18 pm
... to religious fanaticism. What if it is simply bad science, bad mathematics, and bad reading of polluted archeological evidence not to mention selective...
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shay_gaetz
Mar 9, 2007 2:19 pm
Simcha Jacobovici's tenuous reveries do not meet the standard of historical substance. But, cannot the same be said of today's "Bible as history". Scholars...
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John Sabatino
john_sabatino
Mar 9, 2007 2:19 pm
Zeb wrote: In the end, the handwringing and vicious and personal condemnations that were made (usually before the documentary was even seen) confirms my sense...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 9, 2007 2:22 pm
You're quite right John, but I did say "most people," not "all people." Joe Zias's comments were pretty brutal, but it is still the case that "most" of the...
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Zeba Crook
zeba_crook@...
Mar 9, 2007 2:35 pm
Dear Shay/Thomas, I think the explanation I've heard here is that the other ossuaries had been vacuumed out. The Jesus and Mariamne ossuaries were the only...
