Subject: Re: Ioudaios: Re: Second Temple Ark of the Covenant?
inmanvk@sas.upenn.edu
Date: Tue Feb 20 2007 - 11:51:59 EST
Why must your replies insult? Quoting Dierk van den Berg <hagalil@gmx.net>: pure reciting of learned things is the > clear privilege of undergraduates and mercantile parrots. If only more undergraduates could master the art! > However, the Talmud (B or J) is just an welcome additional source, but by no > means the primary one for our understanding of 1st c. CE matters. Nor did I say so. Rabbinics encompasses much more than the Talmud. > what is true for the early Rabbis is likewise true for the EC Fathers - they > speak with many tongues, partly even a split one. How can you say this? When you reverse the syllogism you make a statement about the Rabbis I would never make! What is the point of this statement? > kullu nafsin dsa 'iqatu l-mawt (surah 3.185) > *all living is pervaded by the taste of death* > [Momentum of Shiite al-Mahdi Messianism] > And again, what is the point? > V. K. Inman > >
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