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Blogs of the Week
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xscot mcknight
The blog of the week goes to Steve McCoy who, unknown to me, sitting in my office when Don Hagner and I were talking about divorce and remarriage, videotaped us and has now posted a video of it — with his ongoing need to nap during our riveting discussion.
The Big Snore (contest)
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xscot mcknight
One of the advantages of spending a weekend with my friends in Philadelphia is experiencing how others sleep. Both of my roommates, sometime past midnight, decided to begin snoring — as I waited for the slumbers of sleep to wash over me. One of them, whose initials are BJ, began quickly and made fast work…
Pacifism instead of Revenge
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xscot mcknight
Here it is: in Matt 5:38-42 Jesus summons those who want to follow him to a radical way of life. They are to avoid, at all costs, seeking revenge. Jesus sets it up by quoting Exod 21:24 (or its other citations) — eye for an eye text, and flat-out challenges its applicability for his followers…
Off to Philadelphia
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xscot mcknight
Our entire Dept is attending the SBL/AAR meetings this weekend in Philadelphia. I’ll be giving a paper in response to James D.G. Dunn’s Jesus Remembered on Friday morning at the ETS meetings, and then Saturday morning I’ll respond to John Miller’s book, Jesus at Thirty. It looks like we’ll have access to the internet in…
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