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Archaea · 01-29-2007, 08:49 PM

If not, perhaps somebody else should select one. As that one went over like a lead balloon.

As a side comment, I appreciate the NRSV Oxford edition. For example, it has the footnote identifying the woman taken in adultery as being an aprocryphal story, not likely part of the original.

MikeWaters · 01-29-2007, 08:51 PM

dang, that's one of the best stories. I'm stickign with it.

Archaea · 01-29-2007, 08:54 PM

According to Ehrman and other sources, too many idiosyncracies, not the least of which, where was the man taken in adultery? The law required both to be stoned, and apparently the Greek used is inconsistent with the flow of the rest.

SteelBlue · 01-29-2007, 09:13 PM

Arch, give us time to get and read a copy. I'm waiting for a co-worker to return from Hawaii so I can borrow his copy.

Archaea · 01-29-2007, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by SteelBlue

Arch, give us time to get and read a copy. I'm waiting for a co-worker to return from Hawaii so I can borrow his copy.

So not everyone is an impulsive as I? Of course, I wanted to read it; that's why I suggested it.

Just buy one. What's with this borrowing stuff? Borrowing for me means keeping it.

Sleeping in EQ · 01-29-2007, 09:28 PM

I've read it and am on board.

BarbaraGordon · 01-29-2007, 09:30 PM

Why do I feel like I'm in the 4th grade again?
And there's a math test?
And the smart kid has already finished all the times tables and I haven't even sharpened my pencil yet?

Archaea · 01-29-2007, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

I've read it and am on board.

Well you and Chapel Hil are our professors.

Professor, where do we go from here?

Indy Coug · 01-29-2007, 09:51 PM

I'm reading Fingerprints of the Gods. Interesting stuff, especially in light of the BOM historicity discussions of late.

creekster · 01-30-2007, 08:38 PM

Due to Arch's incessant whining I drove to a more distant store today and purchased the book.

I read the introduction at lunch. Very interesting and I look forward to the rest.

There arch, are you happy?

01-29-2007, 08:49 PM	#1
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Didn't anybody read the Book of the Month? If not, perhaps somebody else should select one. As that one went over like a lead balloon. As a side comment, I appreciate the NRSV Oxford edition. For example, it has the footnote identifying the woman taken in adultery as being an aprocryphal story, not likely part of the original. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα Last edited by Archaea; 01-29-2007 at 08:53 PM.

01-29-2007, 08:54 PM	#3
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	According to Ehrman and other sources, too many idiosyncracies, not the least of which, where was the man taken in adultery? The law required both to be stoned, and apparently the Greek used is inconsistent with the flow of the rest. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

01-29-2007, 09:28 PM	#6
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	I've read it and am on board. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.

01-30-2007, 08:38 PM	#10
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	Due to Arch's incessant whining I drove to a more distant store today and purchased the book. I read the introduction at lunch. Very interesting and I look forward to the rest. There arch, are you happy? __________________ Sorry for th e tpyos.

01-29-2007, 08:51 PM	#2
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	dang, that's one of the best stories. I'm stickign with it.

01-29-2007, 09:13 PM	#4
SteelBlue Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Norcal Posts: 5,821	Arch, give us time to get and read a copy. I'm waiting for a co-worker to return from Hawaii so I can borrow his copy.

01-29-2007, 09:30 PM	#7
BarbaraGordon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gotham City Posts: 7,157	Why do I feel like I'm in the 4th grade again? And there's a math test? And the smart kid has already finished all the times tables and I haven't even sharpened my pencil yet?

01-29-2007, 09:51 PM	#9
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	I'm reading Fingerprints of the Gods. Interesting stuff, especially in light of the BOM historicity discussions of late.