Daily Archives: December 12, 2011

David Marshall: “Notes from the Underground”

For my write-up today on David Marshall’s Jesus and the Religions of Man, I’ll use as my starting point something that Marshall says on page 9: “The pattern of a hero who descends into the earth to rescue those trapped … Continue reading

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Jewish Mercenaries, Jewish Sybil, Agape

I have three items for my write-up today on The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume Two: The Hellenistic Age: 1.  One article that I read in this book was Martin Hengel’s “The interpenetration of Judaism and Hellenism in the pre-Maccabean … Continue reading

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