Hi, Here's a list most of the 'churches of the east' who see themselves as sharing a common syriac heritage: A. Church of the East (Eastern Part) a) Assyrian...
Jacob Knee
jknee@...
Jul 1, 1998 7:31 am
720
I greatly enjoyed Stephen's (as ever) thoughtful and intelligent contribution. Although I have not yet made up my mind on the issue of Thomasine independence,...
Mark Goodacre
M.S.GOODACRE@...
Jul 1, 1998 9:43 am
721
... It is a disputed question. Some think that the harmonisations occur because he is simply quoting from memory, interacting with oral traditions etc. but...
Mark Goodacre
M.S.GOODACRE@...
Jul 1, 1998 10:49 am
722
Syriac still exists as the primary language in two mountain villages northwest of Damascus. It is not the same dialect as Palestinian Aramaic or the Galilean...
Jack Kilmon
jkilmon@...
Jul 1, 1998 12:15 pm
723
I may be a bit behind on this, but I have just come across a nice resource by the above title (The Jerusalem Perspective: Exploring the Jewish Background to...
Mark Goodacre
M.S.GOODACRE@...
Jul 1, 1998 12:56 pm
724
I wrote: Does anyone know much about the Thomas church with current followers who still speak Aramaic, the lingua franca of the earliest christianity? The man...
joe baxter
joseph@...
Jul 1, 1998 2:02 pm
725
Mahlon wrote concerning "every version of the hypothesis that Thom ... This may be in the nature of a footnote, but to talk of Thomas's "glaring omission" of...
Mark Goodacre
M.S.GOODACRE@...
Jul 1, 1998 3:53 pm
726
Just reading a testy response by Rodney Stark to 3 essays commenting upon his book 'The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History' (1996) in the...
Jacob Knee
jknee@...
Jul 1, 1998 3:53 pm
727
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:02:29 -0700 (PDT), joseph@... writes: [... snip ... noted ...] ... From the Days when I surfed in the Old Fashoned Way I printed out...
Tom Simms
tsimms@...
Jul 1, 1998 5:52 pm
728
... Ah, there you are Dr. Chandra. I am glad to meet some human brains to interpret the cyber-brain at FindMail, even though they are not the brains that...
Mahlon H. Smith
mahlonh.smith@...
Jul 1, 1998 5:56 pm
729
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Stevan Davies wrote: Yuri wrote: ... Steve, I can see that quite a few posters already got involved in this debate about the resurrection....
y.kuchinsky@...
Jul 1, 1998 7:03 pm
730
In a message dated 98-07-01 01:17:23 EDT, jwest@... writes: << None, not one, not any, not a single shred of Paul's stuff predates 50. And you still...
Ragu1997@...
Jul 1, 1998 8:36 pm
731
... There are two problems of logic here. First, there is by definition some "earliest" evidence, which is Paul. Paul, of course, thinks a lot of the...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 1, 1998 9:23 pm
732
... Now, where is this to be found in Matthew or Mark or Luke? Are you just making this up, or is it actually in the evangelists' writing and I am missing it?...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 1, 1998 9:27 pm
733
In a message dated 98-07-01 01:25:25 EDT, jwest@... writes: << ... simple. Stevan will be pleased to know that you will here correct his egregious ...
Ragu1997@...
Jul 1, 1998 9:34 pm
734
... We know by observation the character of Thomas sayings. We know by observation the character of Justin sayings. The hypothesis is advanced that Thomas...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 1, 1998 9:52 pm
735
... I'm not going to jump into the comparison between Craig and Crossan. Paulquotes a number of earlier scriptural and apocryphal works and may even, at one...
Jack Kilmon
jkilmon@...
Jul 1, 1998 9:55 pm
736
Can I suggest a little more humility from Ryan and a little more grace from Jim, please? Bernard...
BMDainton@...
Jul 1, 1998 10:22 pm
737
... Recall that while we may disagree on the specifics, we are united in the belief that Patterson's arguments aren't all that they could be. I might be happy...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 1, 1998 11:34 pm
738
In Hugh J. Schonfiled's _Those Incredible Christians_ he ends the book with...
Tom Simms
tsimms@...
Jul 1, 1998 11:37 pm
739
<< ... simple. ... jump ... of ... Now, where is this to be found in Matthew or Mark or Luke? ... First, I was writing about the Jewish conception of...
Ragu1997@...
Jul 1, 1998 11:38 pm
740
In Hugh J. Schonfield's _Those Incredible Christians_ he ends the book with two Chapters on Christology, one on Paul's and one on John's. You've been going...
Tom Simms
tsimms@...
Jul 1, 1998 11:51 pm
741
... Your letter about various dead people coming back just leaves me adrift. What is the point you are defending vis a vis the early church? I no longer know...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 1, 1998 11:51 pm
742
... I could consider a bit better if I had something to go on. Did John gain his knowledge of Paul's teachings from a talking lion, as in the Acts of Philip,...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 2, 1998 12:05 am
743
... STEVE NO, though I understand from the Davila & c HJS died sometime in the last three years... THEY paid no attention to him...he wouldn't meet and debate...
Tom Simms
tsimms@...
Jul 2, 1998 12:13 am
744
... No, he lived in Ephesus and learned what Paul preached from Paul's followers. (Acts xix 13-19). The man is now gone and can't answer to the next paragraph...
Tom Simms
tsimms@...
Jul 2, 1998 12:43 am
745
... No. I put it to you that none of it is. Obviously we need to have good specific examples of that which is "secondary" and why. Often "unique" is equated...
Stevan Davies
miser17@...
Jul 2, 1998 1:00 am
746
Hello---here's a simple question to chew on: Did Jesus Forsee His Early Death? Many of Jesus's teachings were couched in obscure parables and opaque ...
Leeayoung@...
Jul 2, 1998 1:10 am
747
... What do you mean by early? I will drop off the early and just address- did Jesus foresee his death. Yup, he did. Anyone who riled the Romans, the priests,...
Jim West
jwest@...
Jul 2, 1998 1:37 am
748
In Matthew 6:5 Jesus tells his disciples to go onto the "tameion" to pray. Moulton/Milligan define this as "storeroom", which is, I suspect, a legitimate...
