5 days ago by David Larsen

My notes on: Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism – Sunday 4pm April De Conick Star Gates: What Were the Gnostics Doing? The Peratics ( perasai, Greek for “Transcendentalists”) say: We alone have known that genesis is necessary and (we alone have known) have know the roads by which humans have enter ...

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8 days ago by Peje Iesous

In the last post on this topic I tried to affirm (using several paragraph’s from DeConick’s Recovering) that an understanding of orality is key to answering questions about Thomas’s antiquity. Today I want to continue to explore the implications of orality for dating the Gospel of Thomas. Form criti ...

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12 days ago by Peje Iesous

Today my reflections on this topic are guided by the following paragraph from DeConick’s Recovering . She writes We must suspend the processes of composition familiar to our own literate minds and try to enter into a process that makes sense within the ancient world where orality was not only the do ...

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13 days ago by James F. McGrath

Following up on my post about the Bible, scholarship, and a recent blog post by Dan Wallace about liberal openness as a "myth," Doug Mangum offers a post that highlights the tension between Dan's motto ("go where the evidence leads") and the penchant for heresy trials and excommunications at conserv ...

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14 days ago by Peje Iesous

It may be a little premature, but I believe I am dangerously close to “drinking the Kool-Aid” on this one. While I have expressed some disagreements with April DeConick over the John- Thomas issue both on this blog and in print, I still find her work immensely helpful for my own research on the Gosp ...

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28 days ago by Daniel O. McClellan

April DeConick announced today that her new edited volume, The Codex Judas Papers, will be out shortly. She managed to secure a 25% discount from Brill for her blog readers, so head on over and become one so you can find out how to snag that deal.

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85 days ago by Daniel O. McClellan

April DeConick posted yesterday her “Ten Commandments” of historico-critical interpretation. Part of her post was meant to address the incompatibility of historico-critical methodology and what she calls “confessional” scholarship (I use “devotional” or “faith-based”). I thought the list made a lot ...

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86 days ago by Tim Ricchuiti

April 7-9, 2010 : International Conference : Resurrection of the Dead. Biblical Traditions in Dialogue [ Via]

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89 days ago by Tim Ricchuiti

What's a biblical scholar to do? April DeConick has posted a couple thoughts over the last few days on proper historical scholarship, and what that looks like in opposition to "confessional" scholarship: There is a big difference between confessional scholarship and its working assumptions and histo ...

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97 days ago by James F. McGrath

In the beginning, there was Jim Davila. And the blogosphere was formless and void, and NT Wrong was fishing [NOTE: some manuscripts provide a different spelling here] in the darkness. And while Jim was still contemplating what to call that which he was about to inaugurate, Mark Goodacre said "Let th ...

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