? Bruce, You say "What I think "the Gospel of God" means in this particular line of Mark (early in that text, be it noted) is precisely what it says, and what...
I wholeheartedly endorse the remarks of Jeff Peterson. Bruce wrote, "What they suggest in the Paul case is that a certain set of 7 Pauline letters are more...
... With that it mind, I thought I'd share with the list some remarkable similarities I noticed (and blogged) between two recent books on the historical Jesus,...
... On the other hand, given that this tradition goes back to within 30 years of Paul's life, it might just be that Clement got it right and modern scholars...
To: Crosstalk In Response to: Robert Brenchley On: Roman Mark From: Bruce ROBERT: But Mark has a tendency to Romanise terms. The Pharisee (or was he a...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Robert Brenchley On: Jesus and the Twelve (new name) From: Bruce ROBERT: Mark doesn't think much of the Twelve, and they always...
To: Crosstalk On: Colossians From: Bruce If (following recent discussion) we can take it as a reasonable working hypothesis that Colossians is not by Paul,...
... I looked back over your first post and reading "Delta Sources: Mark and John (an early version thereof)," I conclude you thought Mark and John had early...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Bob Schacht On: Memories of Jesus From: Bruce I had suggested that the idea that memories of the life and sayings of Jesus,...
Thanks Gordon for your comments. For convenience I have chosen to separate a couple of strands in all this. I suspect this one strand might be short-lived,...
Bruce, Let's also note the hidden assumption behind your (as of yet undemonstrated) claim that "those who work on_ NT are, overwhelmingly, professing ...
I have a question: what do the readers here say to this argument? ... The major consideration here is that sometimes the primordial Revealer figure in...
From: Joseph Codsi Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:31 PM To: crosstalk2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [XTalk] Gospel of God Thank you Bruce for your...
To: GPG Cc: Crosstalk In Response To: Emmanuel Fritsch On: Christian From: Bruce Manu, thanks for the interesting notes. I add a few of my own, taking off in a...
?Bruce, You say " The phrase which strikes me as inescapably Beta is "who died for us." The Alphas would have been grateful that Jesus had lived for them, and...
To: GPG Cc: Crosstalk On: Luke From: Bruce As if in response to my call for a list of unmistakably Beta passages in Luke and/or Acts, there goes clunk in my...
My memory is that there are at least three ambiguities or uncertainties in the chunk of text in question. a) "in the form of God" may, or may not, hint at the...
To: GPG Cc: Crosstalk On: The Sermon on the Plain From: Bruce Hey, guys, do you want to know something neat about the Gospel of Luke? Michael Goulder (let...
I agree with Tom that there is a puzzle relating to the use of morphe (form) in Phil 2, hence the "may, or may not" in what I wrote. ... Whichever way one...
On page 144 of his book "An Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts" Matthew Black states categorically that ‘nazoraios’ cannot be derived from Nazareth....
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG In Response To: Tom Kopecek On: The Term "Christian" From: Bruce TOM: I'm talking about the question of terminology I raised way back...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic, Crosstalk, GThomas On: Alpha Christianity: An Invitation From: Bruce As some will know, but I think it may be proper to mention...
I don't think that using 16th C notions of atonement as characteristic of the main current of Pauline and post-Pauline Christianity produces an accurate...
Does anyone recall the meeting of SBL (or SNTS) sometime in the seventies or eighties (?) when the participants were shown the new computer software of a...
With apologies for cross posting. This is the final notice for the 14th annual E-Lister's Meeting at the the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting in...
In discussing the authenticity of the Josephean references to Jesus, my friends the ahistoricists have made the claim that "Christos"; would have been...
Sorry everyone. I'm having a great deal of trouble posting to the list from my Mac. Best wishes, Ken Ken Olson, PhD Student, New testament , Duke University ...
First of all, hello to the group since I am a new member and this is my first post. I am currently in a discussion/debate with someone who is not so much a...
