{"id":3027,"date":"2009-11-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/missing-pages-from-the-self-consciousness-of-jesus\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T09:00:00","slug":"missing-pages-from-the-self-consciousness-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/missing-pages-from-the-self-consciousness-of-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing Pages From The Self-Consciousness Of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It seems to me that there is something appropriately symbolic about the state of affairs I\u2019m going to describe. There is an important article by John A. T. Robinson, \u201cThe Last Tabu? The Self-Consciousness of Jesus\u201d which I was trying to locate a copy of. It is available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=37uJRUF6btAC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=james%20d.g.%20dunn&amp;lr=&amp;pg=PA553#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Books preview<\/a> of a volume on the historical Jesus in which it was reprinted. But there is a page that is not there. <\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t that just like our attempt to investigate the historical figure of Jesus, including his self-consciousness? As <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/historical-jesus-what-if-key-pieces-are.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/historical-jesus-more-on-those-missing.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in particular<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleinterp.com\/opeds\/goodacre1.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pointed out<\/a>, we don\u2019t know (unlike in a Google Books preview) how many \u201cpages\u201d we are <a href=\"http:\/\/notbeingasausage.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/mark-goodacre-admitting-our-ignorance.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">missing<\/a>, and (like in a Google Books preview) neither do we know what was written on them. The one difference is that in the case of a book, we can turn to interlibrary loan. But, to state the obvious, we cannot interlibrary loan the thoughts of Jesus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2525024963567831346?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that there is something appropriately symbolic about the state of affairs I\u2019m going to describe. There is an important article by John A. T. Robinson, \u201cThe Last Tabu? The Self-Consciousness of Jesus\u201d which I was trying to locate a copy of. 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