This post is a one-day interlude from my posting on the textual problem of Luke’s passage on the “bloody sweat,” which was a sidetrack from my postings on problems I had with the NRSV, which were a sidetrack from my postings on my relationship with Bruce Metzger, which got started by a question about how he reacted to my loss of faith, a question I have not yet answered.  This post is irrelevant to all that, but if I don’t post on it now, I never will.

So, this blog is not the one and only CIA in my life.   The other is a reading group that I host once a month, of graduate students and faculty (mainly graduate students) from UNC and Duke, which I started, I don’t know 15 years or more ago, and that I called Christianity in Antiquity (CIA) because I thought I would be clever.   My self-deception on such points, obviously, has still not worn off.

The CIA (reading group) meets, usually in my home, and last night was the first of the academic year…

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