... Fabrizio, I've had a look at some of these articles. They contain a variety of arguments ranging from the plausible to the highly unlikely. Darrell Doughty...
Mike, I truly appreciate your taking time to respond to my inquiry, but truth to tell I remain unconvinced at the end of your posting. I still wonder at the ...
... Actually, humanity's need for religion has proven to be as basic and universal as that for political power. The proper understanding is that religion and...
For a brief article on the Qumran dig, to appear in 6 Aug Time magazine, go to http://www.time.com and search "Qumran." Stephen Goranson goranson@......
Give it a rest, really! Who cares? Why would anyone find something like that offensive? If anything was offensive (andit wasn't) it was the longwinded...
... James, No, I didn't mean that. I think Luke must have compared Mark and Matthew and correctly concluded that Mark was earlier and in general more reliable...
An possible obstacle to attributing the passion narrative(PN) to the Gospel Mark (GM) is improbability that the GM was written in the vicinity of Palestine....
My apologies to Mr. Gibson et.al. and all crosstalkers for this plethora of bombast. But I have received in the past week over 400 XTalk msgs. and my meager...
why the hell did i have 600324325345 messages from one james barlow clogging my mail tonight? jim ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jim West, ThD Adjunct...
You're missing nothing. It is antilogical to posit a reconstructed Q as the one and only Q. All it takes is Logic 101 and its Venn Diagrams to see why. -jb ...
In his analysis of the geographic setting of GMark, Ted Weeden places ... Mark ... of ... members ... the ... were ... that ... of ... realistic ... stories ...
... Q tells us that Jesus was a teacher/wise man. Not much of anything else besides perhaps a mystical teacher. He is not, so far as Q is concerned, a ...
E.g. the lyrical JSem redaction: "Beads beads the colorful fruit the eschatological trumpet's toot The Petrine ship of listing keel and skeptics' happy,...
The power of mythical conception ancient man has over our own precludes accuracy in the notion, repeated here, that religions are "rationalistic systems."...
[James] Jesus, we remember, said he wished to perform a healing or two to prove "the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins." [Mike] I have more regard...
This is the first I mention of the book in question. I am suspicious of the title "Hidden Gospels" - looks like a nice catchword to ring up sales rather than a...
As pointer I would suggest the peculiar illogicality of Crossan's argumentation on behalf of Johannine dependence on Mark's PN -jb ... From: Peter Kirby...
I'm amazed at the mileage we've managed to get out of "petards", and, though it is glaringly off-topic, I nonetheless feel compelled to thank all contributors ...
Petard<petarde < Lat. peditum (a breaking of wind) from pedo, pedere, pepedi, to break wind. I don't know where the bit about the "lance" comes from, unless...
Hey again folks: There appears to be a new book out of potential interest to this list and/or NT scholarship, namely: Philip Jenkins, _Hidden Gospels: How the...
Bob Schacht wrote on Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:31 PM in response to Bill Arnal's post of 7/28/01 ... Bill Arnal replied in a post, Sunday, July 29, 2001...
Hey folks: Just a thought -- as is typical of the field, and I guess rightly so, we get all hung up on literary issues like Q's erstwhile existence or its ...
... It seems that this question has many answers, depending on what's meant. Mack, I believe, would only include the earliest layer of Q, excluding all later...
Dear all, Last week, my computer got infected from a third party with the SirCam virus. Consequently, it might have sent you without my knowledge an attached ...
