Leolaia
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Do you catch yourself still thinking Witness thoughts?
by Leolaia ini was with my boyfriend's family who are jewish.
having grown up as a witness, i always felt closer to jews than most christians (when you think about it there are a number of commonalities, like not celebrating christmas, having a "memorial" often on passover night that talks a lot about the israelites escaping egypt, the whole ot focus of the witnesses instead of on the christ of the nt, etc.).
anyway, it was thanksgiving and my boyfriend's aunt was there who was a holocaust survivor.
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I watched Amos 'n Andy last night
by Leolaia inhas anyone seen that old show?
it's like an old fifties tv show with an all-black cast that is virtually banned from tv....you would never see it at nick at night or tvland.
it was pulled off the air following complaints by the naacp and it has become almost archetypal of racist stereotypes about blacks.
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Peter in prison in Acts 12:1-17
by Leolaia inaccording to lapham, the story of peter imprisoned by herod agrippa in acts 12:1-17 bears striking similarities with the story of jesus' death and resurrection and the story of peter's martyrdom in the martyrdom of peter (later incorporated into the acts of peter).
this raises the intriguing possibility that the original story in acts was of peter's martyrdom in judea at the hands of agrippa, followed by a resurrection appearance and/or angelophany.
the "prison" in acts would refer to peter's tomb.
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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
by Leolaia intwice (john 4:29, 39), the samaritan woman is said to have reported to her townspeople that a man had told her ?everything?
one may surmise that those whom she told knew rather well precisely what the things were that she had done, for they followed her urging to see this remarkably perceptive stranger.
precisely what did jesus tell her that so moved her and others, and how did he go about it?
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Jesus' appearance before King Herod in early tradition
by Leolaia inluke is unique of the four gospels in depicting a trial scene between jesus and king herod.
the same account is also missing in the acts of pilate and other apocryphal gospels and is thus probably a lukan composition.
as crossan, koester, helms, and others have shown, the passion narratives are almost entirely constructed of material stitched together through ot exegesis.
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Interrelationships in versions of a Jesuine saying
by Leolaia inthe sayings of jesus, as oral formulations that eventually take written form, can differ widely among each other in the gospels.
i decided to take one example to study in detail the interrelationships between the recorded forms of the saying so i chose the "true family" saying that occurs in a wide variety of sayings, and which did not originate in q. i present the sayings below in their narrative settings and highlighted the different distinctive features of the forms.
1st jesuine sentence is a question: mk, mt, eb .
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Simon, Cephas, Peter, Judas, Thomas, Didymus
by Leolaia inthis post is in response to peacefulpete's interesting post from my king david thread, which i quote below: .
leolaia...if you look again at 1cor you'll see peter is not there only an ebionite named cephas is.
the only reference to "peter" in any of "pauline" works is gal 2:7 and it is an interpolation made for the very reasons being discussed.
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Another early legend about Jesus birth
by Leolaia inthe ascension of isaiah preserves what might be a cognate but independent tale about jesus' birth.
this book was initially pre-christian and was known to the author of hebrews (cf.
hebrews 11:37 = ascenis 5:2-15), but was heavily interpolated in the first and second century a.d. the first interpolation, 3:13-4:22, most likely dates to the end of the first century (as it was known to second-century writers in its literary form) but the second, the so-called vision of isaiah (11:2-22) is later, probably from the first half of the second century.
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Pastor Russell's Imaginary Sermon
by Leolaia inthis is an essay i wrote a while ago:.
pastor russell's 1911 visit to hawaii: the case of the "imaginary sermon" .
walter martin, in his bestselling kingdom of the cults, alleges that pastor charles t. russell regularly lied about his evangelistic activities -- particularly, by reporting that he spoke publically in places where his ship only briefly stopped for fuel.
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King Hezekiah and his use of the ankh
by Leolaia inhere's something for the watchtower to chew on...... a recent article in biblical archaeology review (july/august 2002) has a cover article on the hezekiah bullae.
each features traditional egyptian iconography.
several have dung beetles depicted in the center, while one has a winged sundisk flanked by an ankh.