Nero accused the Christians of burning Rome in 64 and he executed many of them. But what about the Christians in Rome who managed to evade arrest? Did the...
Richard Fellows
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Feb 3, 2008 1:40 pm
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An important new article for those interested in who lived at Qumran [please forgive the lack of accents]: Emile Puech, L'ostracon de Khirbet Qumran...
Folks, A quick question for the historians of hermeneutics/lit./philos. people among us: It seems generally agreed that when the divine was identified with the...
... Have a look at the entry in the Oxford Classical Dictionary on "mythology" where this is discussed. Also, it looks like F. Graf, _Greek Mythology: An...
Hi Rikk, I'd also take a look at discussions of Philo. He engaged in this sort of thing, so someone must have discussed the historical background of his ...
Rikk, If you haven't already, I'd take a look at Robert Lameberton's _Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic ...
Thinking out loud: ever since the English Deists up through Bousset and Bultmann, it has been suggested that Jesusą miracles were first comparable to and then...
I have just become aware of the thesis of Ezra Fleischer that regular, obligatory communal prayer did not exist as a generalized phenomenon among Jews in the...
Several errors appear in an article in the March-April issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, available online (bib-arch.org), "Spotlight on Scroll Scholars:...
Rikk, In the early 80s at Boston College (and earlier elsewhere) Gadamer gave a course on the pre-Socratics "From Religion to Philosophy." A number of years ...
Folk in the Santa Barbara area (and I know that's somewhat narrow) may want to attend a lecture by Elaine Pagels on the book of Revelation this Sunday: ...
Originally scheduled to be released in October 2009, 'Jesus in an Age of Terror' by James Crossley will now make its way to your bookshelf (and believe me, it...
Sorry to use the list to communicate with another moderator, but it seems to be the only way I may do so. Jack, I'm still getting this message every time I...
On behalf of J. Ted Blakley I post the following: I n my Ph.D. thesis, I use a quote from Vincent Taylor but I didn't seem to note the page number and at the...
Unless I missed something, the sentence does not appear in the introduction to 8:14-21 (on pages 363-4). Stephen Goranson http://www.duke.edu/~goranson...
*Following is an interview with Ben Witherington- the whole of which can be read here: * * * *http://www.midbible.ac.uk/content/view/130/ * * * * * *Before we...
According to the Witherington interview: '...but let me say why this is such an important issue. The James Ossuary is an indirect testimony to the resurrection...
On page 100 of Phil Harland's "Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations" he writes about benefactors: "Failure to meet expectations, especially at critical...
Richard Fellows
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Apr 12, 2008 4:30 pm
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List members should read Peter Jeffery's response to Scott Brown's RBL review of his book, The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: ...
Via Robert Kraft It is with immense sadness, but also with immense thankfulness for a singular life wonderfully well-lived, that I write to inform you that ...