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10-02-2003, 08:08 PM
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If Mara wrote ca 200 C.E., why are we even discusisng this, Vork?
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10-02-2003, 09:53 PM
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Because, I found it bizarre that anyone would consider Mara a source for Jesus. But I wondered if you did.
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10-02-2003, 10:17 PM
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Which makes it sound as though the reader should take into account the perspective elucidated by the example when reading Thiessen and Merz. Is that what you are suggesting?
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10-02-2003, 11:05 PM
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Yes. it what was a well-written and essentially conservative work, that sticks out as a spectacularly bad bit of thinking. I couldn't understand it.
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