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11
Dec
2009
SBL Notes 2009: April DeConick — Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

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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08
Dec
2009
Orality, the “Kernel,” Accretions, and Dating Thomas (Part III)

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 ...

Peje Iesous - christopherwskinner.wordpress.com · Rank: 36,517 · 11 references

04
Dec
2009
Orality, the “Kernel,” Accretions, and Dating Thomas (Part II)

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 ...

Peje Iesous - christopherwskinner.wordpress.com · Rank: 36,517 · 11 references

03
Dec
2009
Go Where The Evidence Leads...But Don't Let It Lead You THERE!

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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02
Dec
2009
Orality, the “Kernel,” Accretions, and Dating Thomas (Part I)

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 ...

Peje Iesous - christopherwskinner.wordpress.com · Rank: 36,517 · 11 references

18
Nov
2009
April DeConick’s New Edited Volume (At a Discount!)

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.

Daniel O. McClellan - danielomcclellan.wordpress.com · Rank: 94,451 · 24 references

22
Sep
2009
DeConick Clarifies Concerning Methodologies

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 ...

Daniel O. McClellan - danielomcclellan.wordpress.com · Rank: 94,451 · 24 references

21
Sep
2009
I don't think this is a conference April DeConick would love

86 days ago by Tim Ricchuiti

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

if i were a bell, i'd ring. - ricchuiti.blogspot.com · Rank: 76,871 · 55 references

18
Sep
2009
Theology or History

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 ...

if i were a bell, i'd ring. - ricchuiti.blogspot.com · Rank: 76,871 · 55 references

10
Sep
2009
The Epic of Gilgawest: A Myth of Biblioblog Origins

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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