Amaleq13

Brief excerpts are allowed.

Mythra

Thank you.

squiz

Not all of us work in the field of biblical studies nor want it known to the general public what our interests are. I for one wouldn't want a potential employer to google for my name and to come up with posts on a forum concerned with biblical history. The religious might disapprove of my attitudes and the irreligious see it as an unhealthy obsession.

Mythra

Thanks for posting this, Jeffrey. I can appreciate what's being said there.

Although Montague's statement about the apostles' martyrdom seems overly definitive, in the light of the traditional (and possibly legendary) nature of the evidence.

Michael

Jeffrey Gibson

Then you could sue them for discrimination.

Jeffrey

Mythra

I was thinking more along the lines of the members of my former church organizing a lynch mob to come and re-save me.

squiz

Is this this George Montague, publishing in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, co-founder of St. Mary’s Catholic Charismatic Bible Institute, baptised in the holy spirit?

and this guy isn't committed to the opposite?

That is some assumption, where are his sources for that? And anyway, even if they did, so did Joseph Smith.

I wonder how trustworthy he is?

squiz

Ok, so next time I'm turned down for that big promotion, I'll sue them for discrimination based on the fact that they theoretically might have read something on the internet. Join the real world please.

Or were you taking the piss?

Jeffrey Gibson

No. Only if that actually were the basis for it. I suspect however that your being turned down would have more to do with job performance than what you do on the internet.

And since you seem to think that your employers reading what you post on the internet is unlikely, why the fuss? More importantly, why the paranoia?

As to joining the real world, you're the one who expressed concern that real or potential employers might read what you write here, not me.

Anyway, I won't be replying to any more of your posts. I do not care to converse with anyone who hides behind a moniker and won't take personal responsibility for what he/she writes.

Jeffrey

Mythra

He certainly has credentials that are not "fringe".

And perhaps original thinking (or at least unorthodox thinking) is exactly what is needed in order to ever ascertain the truth about the origins of christianity. Not to mention he is an engaging author.

Not too many of us can slog through a 1,000 page treatise on some vague theological concept or provide an english translation from Sumerian cuneiform.

Michael