Subj : Bible
To   : John Wilson
From : Curtis Johnson
Date : Thu Nov 09 2000 03:08 am

 
 CJ>  Clement's letter itself seems to be accepted as genuine
 CJ> by heavy-duty scholars.  I don't think Smith was trying to pull a
 CJ> leg--he'd spent two decades trying to tease out the implications
 CJ> of his find.  Even soft-core true believers would likely to be
 CJ> unsettled by the straightforward implications of the letter.
 CJ>  Head of Columbia U's New Testament Studies dept. and on the
 CJ> board of _Biblical Archeology Review_, Smith had impeccable
 CJ> credentials.

 JW> That's very interesting and an update on what I've read (by some 20
 JW> years :-), for which thanks. *I* found Smith's work to be plausable
 JW> and *very* interesting. I was slightly surprised and pleased to read
 JW> the respectful references to him in Pagels's book.

	Remind to do a little searching--I've written down a URL
for a website devoted to the Secret GMark.  (Haven't visited it yet.)
 
 CJ>  Pagels thought organization v. lack of organization a major
 CJ> factor in the defeat of the Gnostics.

 JW> Proved it to me. Her dissing of Tertullian makes me weanna read more
 JW> of him, but I'm already 426 years behind in my reading schedule...

	I've actually read *all* of him, albeit at a very fast skimming
rate on-screen.  (He's available for d/l at a few sites.)
	The parts that aren't boring tend to be entertaining.  He 
really does live down to his misogynistic, etc. reputation.  At some
time I'm going to go back and prepare a personal extract of the more
interesting parts.

	Tell me about being behind in reading--I just found out last
month about a place that gives away free books on weekends!

  




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