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While our group of 30 participants in the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar missed out on the laureates' intimate dinner with the King of Sweden, we could be spotted at almost every other activity--equipped with cameras and with pens and paper for autographs...
Coffey, who upon entering the Union announced himself as a mem- ber of the Undergraduate Council's FreshmanCaucus, was doing field research for his finalpaper for a first-year seminar "City and UrbanLife: Literature of the Urban Conscious," led byTeaching Fellow Thomas J. McCarthy...
...Jesus amounts to only his words in The Lost Gospel, he barely holds on to them in The Five Gospels. The book is the product of the 74 biblical scholars (including Crossan) who belong to the Jesus Seminar. Meeting twice a year, the group votes with purposeful theatricality on the authenticity of each gospel saying, casting colored-coded beads into a box to indicate which lines of Christ were holier than others. The latest round appears in The Five Gospels, which, parodying the red-letter Bibles that display the words of Jesus in red type, prints the supposedly authentic words...
...worthy of life," says Peter. Jesus replies, "Look, I shall guide her to make her a male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter heaven's kingdom." Three sentences in Thomas survive the seminar's judgment as likely statements of Jesus'. (The members of the seminar voted down the Mary passage...
...surprisingly, the new books are controversial. Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, calls the Jesus Seminar "either the greatest scholarly hoax since the Piltdown Man or the utter bankruptcy of New Testament studies -- I hope the former." Other scholars question the use of the Thomas and the hypothetical Q. The effect is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope at a vanishing Jesus. In his forthcoming The Gospel of Jesus (Westminster), William R. Farmer, professor emeritus of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University, decries the latest Q theory because it leads...