The fourth video section
Jesus is not that thing. Jesus and humans are not just bodies, they are also spirits.
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You go to funerals and the minister says,
Weep not. That’s not Sister So-and-so or Brother so-and-so ! ! !
That’s just the vehicle of their spirit.
That’s not the spirit of Brother So and So. That’s not the spirit of Sister So and So.
I once asked Prof Ehrman if he thought we were to intuit some relationship between these two young men in Mark. He thought not. Yet I can’t help but wonder. Mark, that brilliant composer, is a master of the hint, the fleeting glance, the subtext. Who knows if we get even half of what he intended?
1. The young man in the Garden of Gethsemane
2. The young man in the white robe IN THE TOMB OF JESUS
3. The young men in the Forum Thread: Paul and Pauline Christianity: Greek Lesson by Ammon Hillman on St. Paul and the Young Adults Who Followed Him (Bart Needs to Debate Ammon, if Bart Can Save Us from Ammon.)
Bart will NOT save us from Ammon Hillman.
Jason Canada on Facebook:
Ammon Hillman is a Classical Philologist. A Classicist. In his own words (slightly paraphrased) this is someone who, given a small block of text with some idiom in it, can accurately determine when and perhaps where it came from, with a margin of error of perhaps 75 years.
He’s spent 30 years studying every Greek text he can get his hands on, as well as delving into the medical, surgical and pharmacological texts of Galen to a degree far surpassing any existing scholar.
While Hillman is clearly a skillful academic, he doesn’t resemble someone whose expertise is limited to Biblical or religious contexts. One of his assertions is that the scope of understanding of most if not all such academics is not merely limited by their concerns; these disciplines inculcate biases of interpretation in their pursuit of scholarly insight due to normative and religious agendas that should remain outside the true application of scholarly research and understanding.
How can we possibly understand history if we’re limiting ourselves to interpretations that remain within the lines of preferred narratives that are often basically just lies?
It’s not surprising that his detractors find this ridiculous and provocative. There’s something to be said for both perspectives, depending on one’s orienting concerns.
But what is Hillman actually trying to get us to understand about the ancient Greeks and their fascinations with ritual, sex, drugs, initiation and … ‘dotes’ and ‘antidotes’?
Modern Greek no longer uses the Optative mood. The seeing prophecy mood of wishful and hopeful sentiments. οπτα τινε, τινε οπτα. It’s called the subjunctive mood now.
There is hope for nothing.
Mark 16:5, the white robe has to be transformed into the priestly garments, Exodus 39:1. It requires the purple, the dyes. Sheep wool isn’t naturally blue, purple, scarlet. I’ve seen lots of sheep before. Ain’t never seen a fancy colored one.
No, that’s all nonsense.
Mark 16:19 is from 2 Kings 2. Jesus was Elijah and the youngin’ in a white robe is Elisha.
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