With regard to empty tomb tradition in Mark and those dependent on Mark, I did mention the Joshua texts in The Cross that Spoke and Who Killed Jesus?, but I...
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John Dominic Crossan
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Feb 14, 2000 5:12 pm
Once again, David, we are concerned with the borderline between abstract theory and concrete example. I concede that if we stay in theory we could easily...
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DavidLoehr@...
Feb 14, 2000 3:58 am
... and playing off the great question from Julio Zabatiero, if we approve of the real-world use made of this Latin American imaginative Jesus, if it fits the...
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Bob MacDonald
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Feb 14, 2000 3:58 am
Dear Dr Crossan In your overall statement of method (BoC p93), you imply that source and redaction criticism might be 'wrong'. "If it is wrong, any historical ...
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Bob Schacht
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Feb 14, 2000 3:58 am
... Professor Crossan, Thank you for responding to this question (and thanks to John Bristow for asking it), because it was something I wanted to ask you about...
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David Amador
thevoidboy@...
Feb 14, 2000 3:58 am
Dominic - Thank you for your thoughtful response, and since my concerns will be more tangential to the current conversation as it is shaping up, I'll try not...
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John Dominic Crossan
jdcrosn@...
Feb 13, 2000 10:53 pm
Thank you, Mark, for your experiences as a student with Tom Wright. I expect that bio-scholarly differences are probably operative between somebody like Tom...
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John Dominic Crossan
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Feb 13, 2000 10:53 pm
Since you were at the special Jesus Seminar on "The Once and Future Jesus," Davidson, you know not only what Tom Sheehan said, but what I said at that meeting....
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John Dominic Crossan
jdcrosn@...
Feb 13, 2000 10:53 pm
I am quite willing to discuss oral tradition in reconstructing Jesus, Jim, both in abstract theory and in specific example. The abstract theory in the BofC...
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John Dominic Crossan
jdcrosn@...
Feb 13, 2000 10:52 pm
I would not want, Julio, to get into an abstract argument on whether it is possible to have an ideology-free method to reconstruct the historical Jesus. With...
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Mahlon H. Smith
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Feb 13, 2000 5:42 pm
Greetings Dom! So far questions are light today. So I'd like to urge all Seminar subscribers to put their thinking caps on to keep the discussion with Prof....
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Mark Goodacre
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Feb 13, 2000 3:51 am
... Thankyou for these interesting observations, here excerpted from your longer message. I would like to make two observations. First, the point about Tom...
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DavidLoehr@...
Feb 13, 2000 3:51 am
Dom: Thank you for offering yourself to this discussion. My question comes from the left field where I roost. It has to do with the (in my view) necessity...
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Jim Crutchfield
jdcrutch@...
Feb 13, 2000 3:51 am
I would like to ask Professor Crossan whether he or others have considered jokes as a possible model for studying the stability of form and content in oral...
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julio
jzabatiero@...
Feb 13, 2000 3:51 am
02.10.2000 Dear Dr. Crossan, In Latin America, biblical scholars are used to see the Historical Jesus as the leader of a popular movement of liberation of the...
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John Dominic Crossan
jdcrosn@...
Feb 12, 2000 6:49 pm
Let me begin with an analogy, Robert. Without anyone particularly noticing or making much fuss about it, we [ both scholars as such and Christians as such]...
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John Dominic Crossan
jdcrosn@...
Feb 12, 2000 6:43 pm
I agree with you, Jack, that the Gospel of Thomas is independent of the Synoptics (apart, as you say, from some synoptic retrojection similar to that which...
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John Dominic Crossan
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Feb 12, 2000 6:43 pm
My term "prophecy historicized," John, was used originally for a very specific purpose. Granted the historicity of the crucifixion, where did all those...
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John Dominic Crossan
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Feb 12, 2000 6:42 pm
As you may know, Johan, I am beginning a debate with Dale Allison which will be published eventually in a book by Polebridge Press. What I say here, or ...
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John Dominic Crossan
jdcrosn@...
Feb 12, 2000 6:41 pm
There are a lot of words in there, David, big and important words, which appear with quotation marks around them, but I am not always sure we mean the same...
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John T. Bristow
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Feb 12, 2000 4:39 am
Dear Dr. Crossan, My inquiry relates to one of your special contributions to historical Jesus study, an amplification of a principle which you refer to as...
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J M Strijdom
strijjm@...
Feb 12, 2000 4:39 am
Dale Allison, in his "Jesus of Nazareth" (1998), offers an extensive criticism of Crossan's methodology. I would like to know Crossan's response to the...
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Robert M Schacht
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Feb 12, 2000 12:19 am
Professor Crossan, First, thank you very much for agreeing to participate in this Seminar. I am looking forward to the dialogue on historical methods...
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Jack Kilmon
jkilmon@...
Feb 11, 2000 8:00 pm
I think all would agree, even his detractors, that Dom Crossan has been a "hub" for contemporary efforts in reconstructing the HJ from the available evidence....
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thevoidboy@...
Feb 11, 2000 7:27 pm
Dominic - Thank you so much for agreeing to participate in this exciting forum. I have read you work over the years with great interest, being introduced to...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
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Feb 11, 2000 3:06 pm
Just a note to declare that the HJM/M Seminar with Professor Crossan is now officially open. Please feel free to begin sending in your questions. Yours, ...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
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Feb 11, 2000 12:05 am
Dear HJM/M Subscriber, I have been asked off list what, if any, protocols participants are expected to abide by. So before the Seminar officially begins, I'd...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
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Feb 9, 2000 12:37 pm
Dear HJM/M Seminar List Members, Our Seminar with Dom Crossan is to begin shortly (Friday, Feb. 11th). And so it is time to let you know how the Seminar will...
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
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Jan 16, 2000 5:03 pm
List members: Just a message to keep you abreast of where we are in terms of numbers and to make a request of those of you who have not yet sent in your member...
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jgibson000@...
Jan 12, 2000 3:31 pm
The XTalk Seminar on Materials and Methodology in Historical Jesus Research is a moderated, online, three week long forum whose aim is to provides a platform...
