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Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I’m not really sure why Professor Witherington continues to opine on the subject of the Sheffield University Department of Biblical Studies. He’s simply wrong about it. And I don’t just mean wrong, I mean grossly uninformed and profoundly ignorant (in the non judgmental sense of that word). He just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. James Crossley, Dean of the department currently,...
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Euangelion (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The "Early High Christology Club" (i.e., Hengel, Hurtado, Bauckham) have argued that 1. Jewish monotheism was strict, 2. In the first twenty-years of the church some momentous developments happened in christology that resulted in Jesus being identified with the God of Israel and incorporated into patterns of religious devotion normally reserved for YHWH. In contrast, scholars such as James...
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Bible/History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It's almost noon and it's totally over. James Crossley's paper on N.T. Wrong and the Bibliobloggers was entertaining. Then Neil and I hit the book fair and I ordered a few more at half-off. Now we're heading out to go goof around in the city. It was lots of fun. I've got lots to reflect on. All in all, a very profitable and promising week. I'm convinced all I need to accomplish my goals...
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if i were a bell, i'd ring. (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
...is probably experiencing for myself James Crossley's resemblance to eyeliner guy on LOST .
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Clayboy (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
It all started when Ben Witherington made some careless and unsubstantiated accusations about Sheffield Biblical Studies department in Christianity Today. faculty were “bent on the deconstruction of the Bible, and indeed of their students’ faith,” according to Ben Witherington, a New Testament scholar at Asbury Theological Seminary. This at least had the merit of waking James...
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Hypotyposeis (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
James Crossley at Earliest Christian History has broken his months-long blog silence to take Ben Witherington, III, to task over some comments of his quoted in Christianity Today about the attempted and failed demise of the Biblical Studies department at Sheffield: Sheffield and some odd comments attributed to BW3 (Nov. 5, 2009), More of the same from BW3 (Nov. 7, 2009), and Yet more...
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Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
James Crossley has posted and in so doing offers what can only be described honestly as something really strange Ben Witherington #3 evidently said in response to the now resolved crisis at Sheffield. Other faculty [at Sheffield] were “bent on the deconstruction of the Bible, and indeed of their students’ faith,” according to Ben Witherington, a [...]
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Euangelion (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The attempt at closing the Biblical Studies department at Sheffield University saw a wide and varied coalition of folks come together to strenuously object to the closure. Over at CT is an article about the kerfuffle. See also James Crossley's response to remarks by BW3 cited in the article.
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Dr Jim West (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... show up on October 11 it’s going to be either Huldrych Zwingli (who died on October 11, 1531) or James Crossley (who was born on October 11). Yet the truly shocking thing about this story is the fact that 5000 people were foolish enough to believe it! Come on people, what’s wrong with you? Posted in current events, people
