Posted: May 07, 2012 1:50 pm
proudfootz wrote:IgnorantiaNescia wrote:archibald wrote:Blood wrote:
T.S. Verenna is an amateur historian who has been researching the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods for seven years and the ancient Near East for five years. He is the author of the book Of Men and Muses: Essays on History, Literature, and Religion (2009) and his second book, 'Is This Not the Carpenter', co-edited with Th. L. Thompson, is in press and due out in 2011.
http://www.amazon.com/This-Carpenter-Co ... nskepti-20
Thomas L Thompson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Thompson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_minimalism
What is your point about Thompson? He is not anything of a relevant authority on the New Testament (nor on ancient Levantine archeology).
What's your point about Thompson?
No one is claiming anyone should take Thompson's word for anything simply because he's an 'authority'.
Thompson is a biblical scholar who's written a book relevant to the topic we're here to discuss.
Good. My point about him is that he is as an amateur on the life of Jesus - and as a result not much of an 'authority' on it at all.
Though I readily admit he is much more relevant than Tom Verenna.