I think you are mistaking the message and intent of the gospel for something completely foreign to it in terms of time and place. Although someone tod...
Here is a nice brief overview from the perspective of five scholars. At the bottom there is a link to a statement by Another scholar. One thing that e...
In order to understand the problem of cities we have to follow the story of knowledge. The story of knowledge, is the story of production. It begins w...
He is contrasting biological life with everlasting life.The needs of the body with those of the soul. Yes, we are all going to die, but without food a...
What is too often overlooked is the messianic promise. Jesus claimed that the Kingdom was at hand or near. Ordinary life with its ordinary concerns wa...
Some regard Paul's teachings as a form of nihilism. For example, your quote above: As in many other places, Paul is contrasting the natural world, the...
What if someone who is righteous stumbles? Is this precluded when you claim?: But presumably it is possible if one must remain vigilant because the fl...
Many years ago I took a course to learn Greek (I think it was soon after the gospels were written), but soon after my attention way pulled in a differ...
It is generally assumed that in such cases there was a common source or sources, such as Q, from which the gospel stories were taken. Whether the sour...
How can we reconcile Jesus' adherence in Matthew to the commandments : with the commandment against killing that Jesus cites at Matthew 19:18? I think...
The Church Fathers, on their own authority decided what books were authoritative. For some scholars the concern is with texts that were excluded, text...
More obfuscation. You are unable to explain the meaning of what Jesus is alleged to have said in this passage from John. So much for your "extraordina...
Looks more like an equivocation. If someone asks what "time is money" means, it can easily be explained. You have yet to explain what "“I am the way a...
I agree in so far as the ground has been plowed, but I do not consider the current state of the humanities as being at a plateau. I think the attempt ...
Right, and he cites the Hebrew Bible as his authority: As do philosophers. Talmud is similar to dialect. Both are methods of inquiry based on weighing...
Here's a pertinent example: Strawman - A strawman is not literally a man made of straw. It is a device used as an attempt to avoid addressing the argu...
I think the problem with the humanities is the incessant push to say something new, something novel, something different. This leads, in most cases, t...
And, as you say, the way, the truth, the life = Jesus. You have not said anything that is not evident in the statement from John. You have not identif...
If by "he" you mean the character in the gospels, then yes, he pushed a myth. What I am speculating about is the man behind the myths. How much of wha...
I don't know if Jesus thought he was the or a messiah. Perhaps the role was pushed on him by those who wished it were true. Perhaps he came to believe...
That there is a man who is "the way" is a myth. A man who is "the truth" is a myth. A man who is "the life" is a myth. That "no one comes to the Fathe...
And there are more than a few of those people here, but since they do not agree with you, you question their abilities. That's nice, but I do not find...
.You had already said: Of course, perhaps you don't. Perhaps this is the problem. Well, you certainly don't lack confidence in yourself...[/quote I do...
The argument is straight out of what the text says. Rather than address what I have said you deflect by arguing against something I have not. My argum...
Well that settles it. NOS is not concerned. We can all rest assured. The commander in chief is not an emperor. He cannot do whatever he wants with cla...
You admit you didn't read it but that did not prevent you from saying: I won't say what stands as a good little reminder of breathtaking stupidity. I ...
How do you disentangle the two? Are you referring to the findings of phase 1 of the Jesus Seminars? The most obvious problem with trying to separate t...
Based on what you have said you have made it clear once again that you did not read the article. What do you hope to gain by providing further evidenc...
From my first post on this: The reviewer quotes Berman. Perhaps I assumed too much, that you would know what an advanced copy is and how quoting sourc...
That is what I did! If you had read the piece you would know that. But you do not even read some of the things you link to, so there is no reasonable ...
Your response is typical of someone who clings to their beliefs and refuses to look carefully at what the gospel texts actually say. You assume you ha...
The concept of the Messiah and the Kingdom are Jewish not Greek or Roman. The Greek and Romans, however, held to the idea of human gods. In Christiani...
You cite Luke 4 but do not take into account how often Jesus' responses quote what is written. The online version of the New International Version inc...
If you or I were to repeat teachings that we found elsewhere it may be that the teachings themselves are great, but would that make us great moral tea...
Who is "she"? The reviewer, Benjamin Weiser, is not making any claims. He is reviewing a book by Geoffrey S. Berman. It is Berman who made the claim. ...
Haven't you read what you said? You begin the post in which you acknowledge that it is not so simple by quoting me saying that the background here is ...
I don't see how the question of his teachings can be separated from questions of interpretation and the context within which those teaching occured, t...
I like the approach of "The Historical Jesus in Context". The title is somewhat misleading because the focus is not simply on trying to establish who ...
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