Hello: The thread name is my working title for a piece I am writing on the relationships among Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, and the Jesus Movement as it...
I have found what I think is a biblical allusion in the form of a pun in John 1:18 that I don't believe has been commented on before. Do others agree this is...
I'm a little out of the loop these days, more's the pity for me. I was wondering what are the current views of authorship of the Gospel and Epistles and if...
... I think it's just Roger's transliteration. ... Yes. But may I ask that the next time you ask for a Greek text, you give the full reference of the text you...
Thanks, Stephen, for the contribution, and also for mentioning Pierson Parker's essay. With Schackenburg, I find very little of Parker's essay on the...
Thanks, Yuri, for the good work, here. I too have been thinking that Bethabara is a more likely naming of the site intended by the Johannine evangelist (as...
Greetings, friends, In the opening chapter of John's Gospel, we see the multitudes of people coming to John the Baptist to be baptised by him. But where was ...
With apologies for cross-posting, I trust that the following will be of interest to folks here: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has...
Cross-posted to John_Lit and B_greek Does anyone have a style guide reference (or a decent reason) why authors and commentators use Paraclete (with a 'c')...
I will be teaching The Gospel of John during the Spring at Friends University for the first time. I would like to use the Jewish Festivals as one entry point...
In a message dated 11/22/2005 10:53:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, pastor_t@... writes: The indicators that a midrash elaboration is being offered are...
In a message dated 11/22/2005 10:53:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, pastor_t@... writes: In other words, the theory I am advancing is that the Prolog...
Diane, Mark and J-Lit Listers This is the third and final part of my response to Diane's post. Diane Yoder wrote: Addressing the Genesis/John issue, I find,...
Diane, Mark and J-Lit Listers This is part 2 of a 3-part response to Diane's recent post. To show how the midrash method is being used in composing the first...
Hello Diane, Mark and J-Lit Listers: Diane Yoder asked a number of interesting questions in a long article. I'm responding in three parts. This is part I. ...
With apologies for cross posting Here is the revised and final list of e-list members who have indicated that they will be attending SBL and or the E-Lister's...
Apologies for cross posting Here is (a) the third and Final Call for the 9th annual gathering of all NT and Biblical e-list members (i.e. XTalkers, B-Greeks,...
Tom Your concerns about the list are understandable but in fact none of the SBL lists are as active as they used to be. One wonders if they will die out. This...
I assure you I exist. Not long ago one of the loonies on a non-moderated list made the claim that I, Jeffrey Gibson and a gaggle of others who ignored his...
Apologies for cross posting! This is the second announcement of the 9th annual gathering of all NT and Biblical e-list members (i.e. XTalkers, B-Greeks, and ...
Dear Fred Is it not reasonable to argue, (with Hopkins I think): "I kiss my hand to the stars, lovely assunder,.."); that the whole of time bound cosmic ...
If I may enter the quest for the B.D.'s identity. About sixteen years ago, I had this brief interchange with a world renowned scholar after he perused my...
Dear Jack, I'm assuming that I should direct my inquirey to you, Jack, since I have not seen any sign of Felix on the list for some time. If I'm wrong, please...
A MIRACULOUS FEEDING OR A LITURGICAL MEAL ? All four canonical gospels agree on the miraculous nature of what happened when Jesus fed four or five thousand...
In Marcus Borg's book on Conflict, holiness, and politics of Jesus he quotes something like 339 rules that Pharisee's observed with something like 227 having...
Michael S. Tibbs (October 11, 2005) quoted the following passage concerning Mary Magdalene and the disciple Jesus loved. <<It appears that whenever MM and the...
In a message dated 10/5/2005 10:15:47 A.M. Central Daylight Time, ... Annual Meeting is just round the corner (Nov. 19th-Nov. 22nd) and I begin to arrange the...
