David Stockman’s education began at Harvard Divinity School where he hoped to become a great moral philosopher in the tradition of Christian social activists. It continued with his role as a congressman in Washington in the late 1970s. Then as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the early 1980s, he was the cutting edge of the Reagan Revolution and “Morning in America,” which portrayed government as “the problem” and an unconstrained free markets as “the solution”. His subsequent career as a businessman was troubled by bankruptcies and culminated in an indictment. Now his original divinity-school training has resurfaced and he has re-emerged as a fire-and-brimstone preacher. …read more
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'Jesus Wife' fragment gets more testing, delays article
By hnn
(CNN) – One of the most anticipated articles in religion circles will be absent from the pages of the January edition of the Harvard Theological Review. Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King‘s final article on the “Jesus wife” fragment did not make the scholarly journal because further testing on the Coptic papyrus fragment has not been finished.
King announced the findings of the 1.5-by-3 inch, honey-colored fragment in September at the International Association for Coptic Studies conference in Rome. In a draft version of the article submitted for publication in the January edition, King and her co-author said the scrap had written in Coptic, a language used by Egyptian Christians, “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife,” but was then cut off.
King said the fragment dates to the 4th century but could be a copy of an early gospel from the 2nd century. King and her research partners dubbed the hypothetical text “the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.”
Despite King‘s insistence, the discovery did not prove anything definitive on the marital status of Jesus….
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CNN.com
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/03/jesus-wife-fragment-gets-more-testing-delays-article/
Date:
1-3-13
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