Kata Markon

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT home.com>]

(with apologies for cross postings)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
XTalk ONLINE SEMINAR WITH JAMES D. G. DUNN

The moderators and staff advisors of the XTalk Discussion List (Historical Jesus and Christian Origins  -- http://www.xtalk.org) are pleased to announce that J.D.G. Dunn, author of Jesus and the Spirit, Christology in the Making, The Theology of Paul the Apostle and many other works, has agreed to conduct a two week online Seminar with XTalk members and other interested parties on the ideas and arguments set out in his paper "Jesus in Oral Memory".

The Seminar, to be carried out under the auspices of XTalk and its managers,  will begin on  Monday, April 23rd, and will run until Friday, May 4th, 2001.

So as to be managed effectively, the Seminar will be conducted on a subscription only basis, and any posts submitted by Seminar members will first be moderated before they are passed on to Professor Dunn. These moderated posts will be answered by Professor Dunn on a daily basis.

The messages from Seminar List members and the replies of Professor Dunn will be posted regularly to the XTalk List, allowing XTalk members or List observers who are not subscribed to the Seminar to see the course of the exchanges. Non XTalk affiliated parties who are interested only in observing the give and take of the Seminar are urged to subscribe to the XTalk List or to read the daily postings on the public XTalk web page (http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/crosstalk2/).

Topics for discussion are those which are the issues and arguments raised in Professor Dunn's  paper "Jesus in Oral Memory" concerning the pre-literary stages of the transmission of the Jesus  tradition.

Since the discussion of these issues as set out in Professor Dunn's article "Jesus in Oral Memory"  will be the Seminar's initial focal point, a major prerequisite for anyone wishing to participate in the Seminar is one's familiarity with the contents and theses of this work. To access the article, click HERE or go to

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crosstalk2/files/Articles%20for%20Review/JesusInOralMemory.htm

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

J_D_G_DunnSeminar-subscribe AT yahoogroups.com

PLEASE NOTE that while applications for membership in the Seminar are being accepted immediately, posts to Professor Dunn are not. Nothing should be sent in to the Seminar until its opening day, Monday, April 23rd.

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

J_D_G_DunnSeminar-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 J_D_G_DunnSeminar
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Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon)
7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A
Chicago, Illinois 60626
e-mail jgibson000 AT home.com