Subject: Re: Andrew Welburn's scholarship
From: Dierk van den Berg (haGalil@gmx.net)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 16:28:22 EDT
"I see no common basis for a discussion" What I've said earlier to Barbara Thiering goes here, too. And yes - I have read Welburn, Brunner-Traut, Steiner and Hitler the latter three in German - the tongue of Bultmann and Bergmeier. Too many Germans out there, I believe; at least in the moment. But perhaps I haven't understood their message correctly... Shabbat shalom, _Dierk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000@comcast.net> To: "First Century Judaism Discussion Forum" <ioudaios-l@Lehigh.EDU> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:10 PM Subject: Re: Andrew Welburn's scholarship > > > Dierk van den Berg wrote: > > > As a Jew I dont like talk about Steiner's already light-brown Voelkische > > German Romantik and the Antroposophy. > > Is that understandable enough for you, Sir ??? > > It's clear that you don't like Steiner. I'm not a fan either. And it explains > why you haven't read Welburn. But it's still not a straight answer to the > question of whether you've actually read Welburn's _Beginnings_. The answer is > either yes or no. > > > But I think that you don't want a review - you want a discourse. > > No, I want a review -- as my original question shows. From what I've gathered > about Welburn's book, it looks as if it is a rehash of outdated > Religionsgeshichte schule arguments about the origins of Christianity read > through the spectacles of Steiner's anthroposophy. > > > Nice try. > > Try this on a more right-orientated esoteric list, pls > > > > And I have all three - Wilburn, Bultmann and Bergmeier. And, of course, the > > stuff I got from BT > > That you *have* them is no indication that you have read them. > > > For sure here are more that have these books - ask yourself why nobody is > > willing to charge obsolete material with obscure roots. > > OK. I'll ask myself that, even thought it is not plain that the question is in > any way relevant to the specific questions I've been asking about Welburn's > acquaintance with, say, current Mithraic scholarship and his use of late > traditions as evidence for his reconstruction of the matrix of Christianity. > > Jeffrey > -- > > Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.) > > 1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1 > Chicago, IL 60626 > > jgibson000@comcast.net > > >
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