tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post4926815131389435737..comments2023-11-02T01:20:32.436-07:00Comments on The Forbidden Gospels: Announcement: Exciting New Agenda for the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism SBL SectionApril DeConickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06616757055618151612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-82577565811140458802007-04-20T11:29:00.000-07:002007-04-20T11:29:00.000-07:00hello rendez vous sur jewisheritage a bientothello <BR/>rendez vous sur <A HREF="http://www.jewisheritage.fr" REL="nofollow"> jewisheritage </A><BR/>a bientotmarcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720452733537296234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-22631051875042846812007-03-02T10:55:00.000-08:002007-03-02T10:55:00.000-08:00The link to NTMP on this page is broken; there are...The link to NTMP on this page is broken; there are no google results for such a page - does it exist?<BR/><BR/>There is no need to distinguish tongues as a 'later addition' - (as in Geoff Hudson's comment) what does that add to knowledge? Tongues were enough of an embarrassment to power formations.<BR/><BR/>I appreciate your focus on power abuse in metanarrative. I am 30 years behind in my studies - but one thing I have learned: power and the use of power is what moves us and is where we fail most often.Bob MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-19416727244406371312007-02-22T14:25:00.000-08:002007-02-22T14:25:00.000-08:00Dear AprilWhy bother with Jewish mysticism when th...Dear April<BR/><BR/>Why bother with Jewish mysticism when there is a real possiblity that the religion exported from Judea was simply the prophetic requirement of receiving and obeying the Spirit? Thus Acts 10:45, "The circumcised 'believers' who had come with 'Peter' were astonished that the 'gift of' the 'Holy' Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles" - the important result being that the Gentiles began praising God. The thrust was: 'they have received the 'Holy' Spirit just as we have" (10:46). I suggest that the references to speaking in tongues and baptism in the name of Jesus were later additions. <BR/><BR/>Incidentally, in his recent paper comparing Luke:11:27-28//Thom.79a, I see all of Mark Goodacre's references in Acts to the 'word' of God' as originally being Spirit of God which was proclaimed, and was to be received and obeyed. Having the Spirit purified the spirit ready for glory. In the extant text, the 'word' of God, the gospel message, was preached to a precise controlled formula. <BR/><BR/>There are clues that there were indeed first century Jewish prophets and that they rejected the religion of the priests and the temple cult of animal sacrifices. <BR/><BR/>In many ways the Jesus of the gnostics is like the Spirit of God. These prophetic types of less easily controlled forms of religion was bound to fair badly in any power struggles.geoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.com