[GMark] Online Seminar With Dale Allison

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at attbi.com
Mon Mar 3 21:17:35 EST 2003


(with apologies for cross postings)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
XTalk ONLINE SEMINAR WITH DALE ALLISON

The moderators of the XTalk Discussion List
(http://ntgateway.com/xtalk/) are pleased to announce that Dale Allison,

     Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at
     Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author of _Jesus of
     Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet_ (Philadelphia: Fortress), _The
     Jesus Tradition in Q_ (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press
     International), "Matthew," in _The Oxford Bible Commentary_,
     edited by John Barton and John Mudimann (Oxford: Oxford
     University Press), _An Exegetical and Critical Commentary on
     the Gospel according to St. Matthew_ (with W. D. Davies). and
     numerous other works (click here for full list of
     publications)

has agreed to conduct a two week Online Seminar with XTalk members and
other interested parties on the ideas and arguments set out in the
drafts of three chapters of his forthcoming book _Secularizing Jesus_,
which are entitled respectively "Jesus and Hell", Ideology and
Apocalyptic", and "Jesus and His Audiences" and are available in PDF
format at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/files/HELL.PDF

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/files/IdeologyandApocalyptic.pdf

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/files/Jesus%20and%20His%20Audiences.pdf

The Seminar, to be carried out under the auspices of XTalk and its
moderators,  will begin on Monday, March 24th, and will run until
Saturday, April 5th, 2003.

So as to be managed effectively, the Seminar will be conducted on a
subscription only basis (for instructions on subscribing, see below),
and all posts submitted by Seminar members will be subject to selection
by the Seminar's moderators.  Posts selected as best suited to further
the discussion will be answered by Professor Allison on a daily basis.

The messages from Seminar List members and the replies of Professor
Allison will be posted regularly to the Seminar's Home page

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Allison-Seminar/

and will be publicly accessible at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Allison-Seminar/messages

However, only Seminar subscribers will have the privilege of posting
messages.

The focus of the Seminar are the thesis set out by Professor Allison in
the online articles listed above.
Accordingly,  a major prerequisite for anyone wishing to participate in
the Seminar **is one's familiarity with the content of, and ideas
discussed within, these articles**.

To apply for membership in the Seminar, send a blank e-mail message to:

Allison-Seminar-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

PLEASE NOTE that while applications for membership in the Seminar are
being accepted immediately, posts to Professor Allison ARE NOT.

Nothing should be sent in to the Seminar itself until the eve of its
opening day on Monday, March 24th.

Questions or comments about the Seminar may be sent to the following
e-mail address:

Allison-Seminar-owner at yahoogroups.com

Yours sincerely (and on behalf of the entire XTalk administrative
staff),

Jeffrey Gibson
Co-moderator and List Owner of XTalk and the Allison-Seminar
---

Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

1500 W. Pratt Blvd. #1
Chicago, IL 60626

jgibson000 at attbi.com

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