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		<title>When a Syllabus is not a Syllabus&#8212; Ancient Literacies Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 05:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Latin word syllabus derives from the Greek word sillybos/ sillyboi. What it refers to in the first instance is the tag attached to a papyrus roll by which its contents is identified. One example of an actual tag from antiquity reads &#8216;Hermarchus, &#8216;Against Empedocles&#8217; Book 9&#8242;. There was no Dewey Decimal or Library of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men in Black with Aliens on their Backs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that made me most wish there was something like a &#8216;neuralizer&#8217; was Men in Black II. What a come down after the first film came out in 1997 to considerable acclaim, producing many guffaws. So it was with some trepidation that I went to the Loewe&#8217;s Cineplex in Boston yesterday and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Living Legacy&#8211; a Graduation Message for Boston Baptist College</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 05:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[( the following commencement address was delivered in Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston on May 23rd, 2012). Me at Faneuil Hall preparing to give this address. THE LIVING LEGACY Graduations are always rites of passage of one sort or another. For some students a college degree is only the stepping stone or pre-requisite to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem for Christians in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 05:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have not been hiding under a rock, you will have noticed that a lot of bad things have been going down in Syria in the last year. Lots of innocent persons killed, lots of mayhem and destruction. Most of it inflicted by governmental forces of President Bashar Assad. One of the great neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating the Didache&#8212; Was it Orthodox?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more important and neglected extra canonical but very early Christian books is the Didache. There is now a gigantic Hermeneia commentary on it, so one would expect more discussion of this interesting early Christian document. Here below is some of that discussion by my friend Larry Hurtado. The Didache and Careful Reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Justification and Campbell&#8217;s Views</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following info from Larry Hurtado shows the ongoing furor over Campbell&#8217;s take on righteousness). More Engagement with Campbell on “Justification” by larry hurtado Running a little behind in tracking journals, I&#8217;ve only recently noted that a recent issue of Journal for the Study of the New Testament (vol. 34, 2011) is devoted to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurtado on Hengel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 05:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Here&#8217;s a fine reminder of the value of the voluminous work of Martin Hengel. See what you think. BW3). New Testament Chronology and Christian Origins by larry hurtado In the course of writing an essay this past week in which I&#8217;m trying to work up a conceptual model for early Christianity, I had occasion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Matriculants&#8212; Asbury&#8217;s First PhDs in Biblical Studies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly minted PhDs are in the forefront of the picture&#8212; Adesola Akala, David Shreiner, and Mark Awabdy. You may recognize a few other souls in the picture. Your&#8217;s truly is on the back row wearing his puffy hat and lots of Durham and Jerusalem red.]]></description>
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		<title>First Raitt&#8212;  Concert Bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 05:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding good concerts with stars of the 60s and 70s who still play and sing well is of course becoming more and more difficult. Too many of them are in the morgue, or at least they sound like they are dead, and I&#8217;m grateful I&#8217;ve managed to avoid most of those kinds of concerts. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Texting&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Witherington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[( I don&#8217;t normally do more than offer links and small quotes as requested from the NY Times, but this article strikes a major nerve and is so important that I am making a one time exception&#8230;.) The Flight From Conversation By SHERRY TURKLE Published: NY Times April 21, 2012 WE live in a technological [...]]]></description>
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