This week in our seminar on Wisdom and Apocalyptic with Boustan, we read about and discussed apocalyptic thought in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. There were a couple quotes from our readings that stood out to me as the New Testament guy in the seminar:
The last days are thus a period already started but [...]
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5 May 09
One of the things I appreciate about working with Ra’anan Boustan is that no assumption is safe from questioning. In his courses, you have to define what you mean by words or phrases like “Hellenism,” “anti-Semitism,” “the parting of the ways,” and of course, “Judaism.” Consensus is no excuse.
This is why I sit up and [...]
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