Thank you scholar for clarifying that point. But its an interesting coincidence that three JWs (albeit one of them, at least is an exJW) should all have attended MU and have known Chris Forbes, Maybe there are many more JWs attending Universities, in spite of the official discouragement. In the past I knew of only one, the brother of ex-jw Martin Yeomans. Last I heard of him he was a lecturer at New England University (NSW) and an elder in the local congregation.
As to Farleigh James, he became a witness in Sydney after being trained as an Opera singer by Eugene Goosens, who years ago won notoriety in Sydney for being stopped by customs at Sydney airport for having a suitcase full of didldos that he said were for his lesbian friends.
But back to James, In WW2 he was captured on Crete by the German army and imprisoned in a concentration camp. During the early period of imprisonment he became an atheist. He later escaped and lived in the hills for a few years until rescued from the island by a British submarine, While living in the hills he learned Greek (modern, of course). Back in Sydney he and his wife became JWs somewhere in the early 1950s. He later served in New Caledonia where there was one helluva row in the congregation. Later be became a CO in many areas of Australia. An interesting guy!
Finally, since you make some claims to scholarship, do you agree that Judaism in Jesus day was increasingly "Hellenised" and Jesus therefore was a Hellenised Jew?
