As you did your research, what was your impression of modern biblical scholarship? As I plunged into modern Bible scholarship, I assumed the skeptics would be right, but I soon discovered that their “late date” theories of gospel creation were flimsy, full of assumptions, and that a dislike of Jesus ran through many of theirContinue reading “Out of the mouths of … former vampire novelists”
Monthly Archives: July 2008
My regards to my readers!
I greatly delight in the popularity of this blog, and hearing that people find it (and the things on my bombaxo website) useful. I appreciate all the comments and the links and all of the email I’ve received from all of you. Looking through my statistics for July, I was amazed to see the varietyContinue reading “My regards to my readers!”
Who’s got your back?
For the Lord did not draw Ishmael and his sons and his brothers and Esau near to himself, and He did not elect them because they are the sons of Abraham, for He knew them. But He chose Israel that they might be a people for Himself. And He sanctified them and gathered them fromContinue reading “Who’s got your back?”
Jews, Julian, Judaizers, John
[T]he expectation of a restoration of Jerusalem also generated a wave of eschatological fervor among judaizing Christians toward the end of the fourth century. The importance of the city and the temple for judaizing Christians during this period can be seen in the interpretation of prophetic texts that speak of the return of the JewsContinue reading “Jews, Julian, Judaizers, John”
Contra thematic and overly confident historiography
[T]he reader will doubtless ask why the writer chose to present this history chronologically rather than thematically. The answer is that I believe the first task of the historian to be the recovery of order and sequence. An interpretive essay may follow, but at the outset of a new inquiry, one needs to find outContinue reading “Contra thematic and overly confident historiography”
The Everlasting Gospel
The Vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my Visions Greatest Enemy Thine has a great hook nose like thine Mine has a snub nose like mine Thine is the Friend of All Mankind Mine speaks in parables to the Blind Thine loves the same world that mine hates Thy Heaven doors are myContinue reading “The Everlasting Gospel”
sinfold
sinful me, clay like dough puffed up and beaten down rolled and flattened and kneaded like Him, to rise again
Deuterosis in Didascalia Apostolorum II
Continuing from here, a presentation of R. Hugh Connolly’s material on deuterosis from the introduction to his translation of the Didascalia Apostolorum, pp lxii-lxix I do not think this is too strong a statement of the case. And yet it is probably that some allowance is to be made for the practical issues with whichContinue reading “Deuterosis in Didascalia Apostolorum II”
Deuterosis in Didascalia Apostolorum I
The following is a section from the Introduction by R. Hugh Connolly in his Didascalia Apostolorum: The Syriac Version Translated and Accompanied by the Verona Latin Fragments (Oxford, 1929), pp lvii-lxii. I have previously posted the full text of Connolly’s translation of the Syriac here. This selection from the introduction covers in particular the unusualContinue reading “Deuterosis in Didascalia Apostolorum I”
Spider Silk
Once, when I gashed my finger, Grandmother Led me to the closet down the hall. There towels and bedsheets lay in fragrant folds And an old, outgrown doll with bright-blink eyes That scared me stiff with its hilarity Drooled sawdust from its mouth onto a shelf. Grandma pulled me close to her until I understoodContinue reading “Spider Silk”