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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...
[from Geoff Riggs; not Liz. H., my better half] This query is with respect to Josephus's description of Ananus's plans to deliver over one James for stoning....
With apologies for cross posting: The Gospels not only tell us that Jesus had disciples; they indicate that he felt it necessary to have them. Assuming the...
Can list members provide me with some examples from the second temple and tannaitic period of masters not only instructing their disciples in the ways of...
I've been trying to draw up a summary of what it is -- as is indicated by popular literature on Matt. 6:9-13//Luke 11:2-4 -- that those in the pew believe...
As we all know, there is a tool used in Historical Jesus studies that is called the criterion of embarrassment. It is employed, along with other tools such...
Richard, In the service of my aim to ask and answer the question of whether or not "what we think we are saying when we say the words of the LP" is true (i.e.,...
As I understand things, the thorough-going eschatologists like Weiss and Schweitzer argued that Jesus believed with absolute certainty not only in an...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Points Raised by Rikk Watts On: Mark (1) From: Bruce 1. Rikk had said, "Adela's approach to authorship seemed eminently ...
I've poked around Eisenbrauns page and find now that they list the new biography of Bultmann (published in concert with this, his 125th birth-iversary). ...
As some will know, we have a collection of 2,000 short letters or extracts of letters transmitted to us from Isidore of Pelusium, who lived in the early 5th...
Does anyone know where I can find out about Armenian catenae? I know nothing about them, except that they exist. I have a project running to translate the...
A reality check for me: How accurate is my following definition of the Shema? the call to Israel to love and obey and be faithful to its God, that is based on...
With apologies for the cross-posting. All, Because I know you all like books--and like them cheap :) Eisenbrauns has begun a Deal of the Day (DOTD) which we...
Jeffrey, I believe I have seen or heard it said that the events could not have happened because Jesus most likely could not read. I'm sorry that I cannot...
What are the best studies on the question of the historicity of the events narrated in Lk. 4:16-30? What are the arguments advanced/reasons given by...
Paul may have had security concerns concerning the funds that he collected from Achaia and Macedonia. Firstly, bandits were a danger (2 Cor 11:26). Secondly,...
Goulder notes that one of the fundamental assumptions of "the accepted history" of the LP is that it was something that Jesus composed and taught to his...
One of the things that Goulder and others (e.g. S. Van Tilborg) point to in attempting to make their case that the LP is a church creation and does not go back...
