Common Denominator

More of Bart Ehrman's,  How Jesus Became God . So far: Introduction 1.  Divine Humans in Ancient Greece and Rome 2.  Divine Humans i...

It is of course incorrect to say Thursday Last Supper.  The supper happened after dark and thus was at the beginning of Friday.  In Matthew,...

I've been moving at a snail's pace through chapter 5 on the Passion of Jesus in his book, Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, a...

So far: 1.  pp. 387-92 2.  pp 392-95 3.  pp. 395-99 4.  pp. 399-403 5. pp. 403-5 Today, 406-21. ________ I am less than impressed with Alli...

So far: 1.  pp. 387-92 2.  pp 392-95 3.  pp. 395-99 4. pp 399-403 Today, pp. 403-5. _________ Now Allison returns to Mark and John.  He con...

So far: 1.  pp. 387-92 2.  pp 392-95 3. pp. 395-99 Today I finish the section in which Allison conjectures what we would infer about Jesus...

So far: 1. pp. 387-92 2. pp 392-95 Today, pp. 395-99 ________ Two more points today in Allison's experiment--what could we infer a...

Previously: pp. 387-92 Now: pp. 392-95 _______ Now Allison begins to do an experiment.  If all we had were Paul's writings, what wou...

pp. 387-92 I start off my Lenten reading with chapter 5 of Dale Allison's Constructing Jesus , whose title is "Death and Memory....

The first post in this review: Chapter 1: Memories of Jesus Chapter 2, "The Eschatology of Jesus" is about 190 pages.  At my pa...