Mark 14: 26? Given the use of Psalms in contemporary Jewish worship and Pliny's reference to Christians "singing hymns to Christ as a god", along with all the...
Bob and all interested, The Nature of a Network: We find what Jesus asked others to do in Q 1 (and its redactions Q 2 and Q3), Thomas, Mark, Matthew and Luke....
Over on Synoptic-L, Jack Kilmon wrote today, ... Now, I don't want necessarily to get bogged down in minutiae about whether Jack is right about this or that...
Hi Bob and John and all, A friend, thinking about these notes, sent a note about music and song. In that note is the following line from some correspondence ...
I am not certain if this statement is an insightful take on the accepted text, or alot of projecting on to the text. It is a damn good idea though. Unfortunate...
Bob and all, Finally to get to the kergymatic messaging about Jesus as the crucified and risen Christ and a note about Psalm/ hymn singing and poetic verse...
Hi Bob and all interested, I started with the table fellowship singing of Psalms in Jesus' lifetime. This note offers suggested Psalms that may have been sung...
Hi Bob and all, As you start with the message of Peter in Acts, I want to write an addendum note about an important facet about how the kerygmatic message came...
I can't help thinking, Gordon, that there is a whole lot of wishful thinking in your reconstruction. You're not on your own. Kathy Ehrensperger trying to row...
Hi Bob and all, Yesterday I wrote an introduction to this "part three" note. Now to proceed on to talk about the increased roles and their ordering from Paul,...
In a message dated 20/05/2009 02:18:58 GMT Standard Time, crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com writes: <<A favorite coin is one where Gordian III is on the obverse and...
Hi Bob and all interested, These next notes will focus on the development from Jesus and friend's time in the late 20's up to what we find Paul talking about ...
Hi Bob and all, In my last note I said, "in the beginning" there was a network. The goer's to form it were "the apostle, 2 by 2, pairs." The stay-er's were...
Hi Bob (and all interested), As I noted to John, I'll be out of pocket today and tomorrow, but I want to write a brief note about Question(s) 4: What were the...
Actually, Gordon, I do think Jesus was a life-long Jew, who was preaching a radical re-interpretation of Judaism, Not the only one to do that, of course. But a...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG; WSW In Response To: Bob Schacht On: The Originating Proclamation From: Bruce I got the notice of Bob's upload to the Files section of...
List members, Â I blogged a modified version of the following review for John Meier's fourth volume of A Marginal Jew. It's long -- but hopefully not ...
Rather than reply further to Gordon and Mark, I will summarize my own revised answer to Gordon's first question to close that chapter for the time being, and...
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Some XTalk veterans may have a sense of deja vu regarding my questions about Peter. One of the best XTalk discussions ever, IMHO, took place some time ago,...
To: Crosstalk In Partial Response To: Mark Matson On: Methodology From: Bruce To keep things as short as possible, I will here concentrate on the basic ...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG; WSW [on methodology] In Response To: Mark Matson On: Peter From: Bruce The idea of looking at the Historical Peter is one I have been...
I noted the other day that Peter's speech in Acts 4 was characterized as bold (parrhesia). Interestingly, it is only in Acts 4 that this word is applied to...
List members should know that the fourth volume of John Meier's "A Marginal Jew" is now available, but that it isn't the final volume as promised. I suspect...
This past Sunday, Acts 3:12-19 came up in our lectionary, and upon hearing it again, I heard it in a different way. Luke-Acts is generally considered late. Dom...
With Jeffrey's approval, I'm pleased to announce that xtalk's fellow group gthomas will be hosting a special event in May which may be of interest to some...
A new article reports measurements of the ratio of chlorine and bromine in ink from a Qumran Cave One manuscript and concludes that the ink was prepared with ...
With apologies for the cross-posting. Learn about the shortage of letters affecting publishers! Marvel at the Babylon Battle of the Bands! Drool over the...
Those of you who were interested in Stevan Davies' book, Jesus the Healer, might be interested in the conference announced below. Bob Schacht University of...
Just wondering if we have any reason to believe that the reality that Jesus speaks of in Matt. 26:29 and parallels ("my father's kingdom") is not the same...
