John Deere

Spin:

Number one, Please cite where I:

"advocated the possibility that Josephus had access to texts of which copies or texts dealing with similar materials were found at Qumran".

Number two, I wasn't the one searching. Please reread the passage as you seem to have a misunderstanding.

Joe

John Deere

Spin:

'Arimathea' is a pun upon 'bar matthias'. However, to see joke you need to be able to place in within overall context and typolgical mapping - i.e "good conselors" who arrange to have one individual from a group one three who is takne down from cross and miraculously survives (life 421). This parallel is only coherent within overall mapping structure, of course.

Read the book. In fact, if you send me your address via private message I will pay for it just to be able to have the pleasure of your criticism.

Joe

spin

Already done.

Such ellipses with no other context usually indicate omission of 1st person singular subject and auxiliary.

spin

What makes it a pun? I need something tangible in the linguistic relationship between the terms. A pun can simply be in the eye of the beholder. What's the exact relationship?

John Deere

Spin:

Read the book.

spin

This evasion is not an answer. How do you discern a pun in this context?? What process allows you to decide that you have a pun?

John Deere

Spin:

The 'process' that is described in Caesar's Messiah. It is unreasonable to ask me to paraphrase 350 pages of analysis. As I said - read the book.

Have to go, leave me your mailing address and I will get you a copy.

Joe

John Deere

Spin:

I asked the following question:

When you say "Josephus claimed membership in the Essenes. This is accompanied by the implication that this would have given access to texts�?

are you saying that I am implying this, or are you saying that you are making the implication? It is not clear in the sentence..

You responded:

"Your statement makes the implication".

Which "statement" I have made made makes such an impilcation?

Joe

spin

Read "wording" instead of "statement".

Your wording makes the implication.

John Deere

Spin:

This is boring.

The way you attacked the 'pun' on bar Mathias was excellent and suggests that our battles over Caesar's Messiah will actually mean something. Why haven't you taken me up on my offer to send you a free copy? Amigo, I 100% promise you that you will find the work - if nothing else - amusing. Give it a shot.

Joe