... There's an even bigger problem, isn't there? And that's the legitimacy of the assumption that even should there have been formal rules for "seating" at...
Dear Elaine Thank you for these interesting notes. The twists and turns of status reversals has deep antecedents in Hebrew scripture. Certainly the Last Supper...
... Dear Bill, In John 20:4-7 the younger BD out runs the elder Peter arrive at the tomb first, then steps aside to allow Peter to enter and discover the...
On 6/6/04 9:07 AM, "johannine_literature@yahoogroups.com" ... It is also not made clear whether Jesus asks his mother to look at her son upon the cross as he...
On 6/3/04 2:07 PM, "johannine_literature@yahoogroups.com" ... Dear Frank, I am usually silent on this list since I cannot match the competence of many of those...
For what it is worth, I have suggested that the BD was to Jesus as Benjamin was to Joseph either in fact or in the mind of the evangelist. I am neither saying...
Bob Schacht ... John 21, missing chapter of Mark not! If anything John Gerhard conclusively demonstrated that Ch 21 was an intergral part of John. See The...
... Forgive me, but I don't see how you telling me why you don't concede what seems to be evident from what Paul himself says is broadening the debate to ...
Bill: In my book I followed the suggestion of Garvie that Luke 5:1-11 is the proper context for the narrative in John 21 (page 18). R. E. Brown concluded that...
Dear James Small clues as to the identity of the BD may well lie in asking some historical and sequential questions concerning the 'night Jesus was betrayed'...
(With thanks to Mark Goodacre) In the light of recent postings, List Members might like to see Ray Brown's review (penned just before his death) of Klassen's...
... Interesting. But note what the Braun's remark that Klassen's work is grounded in approaches to the Gospels that he did not invent and that were in place...
Klassen's rehabilitation of Judas comes from a reading, solidly within the practices of biblical scholarship, that considers the gospels as products of a...
... Not at all, especially since the issue was whether **your** claim about who and what this person was was valid. ... If you can't remember his name, and...
... No you haven't, actually. ... Curiously, the very figure these unidentified non Jews (Mark, Luke? John, Matthew? -- early Gospel commentators?) allegedly...
In continuing this thread, I use a recent post to expand on it. ... I then replied, on the same day, ... So, David, we have an answer to your question,...
Dear colleagues: I know we have probably talked around this issue before, but I would like to once again raise the question of how one understands PISTEUW in ...
... they have disappeared. It is a transformation. It reminds of the miraculous healings and other deeds of Jesus. His saying something renders the word into a...
Correction For "Sect type sociology with..." please read: +/- 85 CE. Half my poor brain was thinking of a Palestinian Evangelist, perhaps a Jerusalemite,...
NRS John 20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." So what the heck does this mean? ...
I think Timothy Jenney may have hit on the crux of the matter when he refers to Matt 16: 19. If I remember correctly, David Hill in his commentary on Matthew...
Dear David and Mike Further to my recent post I gave the number of sentences in 1 John as 100 which is an error. It should have been144, based on Morton and...
Dear David Let me deal with the easier question of A. Q. Morton and J McLeman first. St Andrew's Press is, or at least was, the small publishing wing of the ...
... there's hardly any harm if someone wishes the group a "Happy Easter" (which any group member can simply ignore, if he or she wishes), - unless, of course,...
