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Re: support for Kelber's position? (was: Re: gmark digest: October 27, 2002)

From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>
To: Kata Markon <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: support for Kelber's position? (was: Re: gmark digest: October 27, 2002)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:38:20 -0600

Kym Smith wrote:

> Dear Jeffrey,
>
> You wrote:
>
> <<<As I noted before, tell that to Daniel. And that an expectation of
> having "much of a readership" is a condition for writing begs the question,
> doesn't it? Excuse the unintended innuendo, but does size matter? Would
> Mark not have written if his congregation was 20 instead of 30 (or 500)?>>>
>
> I am not sure how Daniel relates here.

It relates perfectly if you take it, as I do, that the author of Daniel wrote
in the midst of the Maccabean crisis and not, as you seemingly believe,
during the exile.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson

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Re: support for Kelber's position? (was: Re: gmark digest: October 27, 2002), Jeffrey B. Gibson, 10/31/2002