Only note how smoothly the narrative reads once we excise Barabbas: "But Jesus made no answer, so that Pilate wondered, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to ...
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who both wrote lives of Jesus in the nineteenth century, even if they were striking in their contrast.7 This treatment of the miracle stories dominates much of the ...
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For Christians like me, facing up to this thread in our identities is a matter of coming to terms with ourselves, and how we structure our worlds of ...
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Knowing that his sanity, indeed his soul, may be at stake, Michael turns his attention to those with whom he shares this situation. He makes connection with Menahem, ...
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No matter which factors one considers important, the war against Afghanistan and Iraq, global terrorism, and potential future wars against countries like Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, christian ...
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In imperialism, there are not just simply colonies and colony-owning countries, but also semi-colonies, politically independent countries, which are "enmeshed in the net of financial and diplomatic dependence" ...
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Chapter 4 ("The Word is Not Reflexive: Mind and Word in Aquinas and Gadamer") addresses a complication in the relation between Augustine and Aquinas. Augustine sought to understand ...
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And the clashing demeanors of Jesus' two Sanhédrin responses-silence, then stridence-result simply from Mark's harnessing Jesus to two clashing proof-texts: the silence of Isaiah's "Suffering Servant" (53:7: "he ...
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Observe how Mark extends chapter 14's "blasphemy" pronouncement back twelve chapters to the healing of the paralytic opening chapter Why does this man speak thus? christian louboutin ...
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They ask also in writing - e.g., Donald Hagner: "modern Jewish scholars ... on the whole . . . surprisingly tend to ascribe more reliability to these materials ...
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