hmm..

But their fires were quenched. All the lands were grey and still; and ever the shadow deepened before them, and hope waned in every heart. ---- JRR Tolkien

its finals...

hum yeah....its finals week...i should be madly craming for a latin test...instead i'm posting to a personal weblog that most likely no one bothers to read anymore, due to my lack of posting. So in case you're board and you happen to find yourself here reading these words. good luck, good night and best wishes...i don't know where that can from. but anyways i should at least try to preapare myself for my doom now...or maybe i'll just go to chruch. how ironic. well i'm out.

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you think that matt knapp is one cool cat...because well...he is. matt california misses you. hope school is going well. let me know how you like your classes. and you're one awesome person.

the list.......

Marcus Borg:

Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus & the Heart of Contemporary Faith, 1994.

Jesus: A New Vision, 1987.

John Crossan:

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, 1994.

The Historical Jesus : The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, 1991.

Excavating Jesus : Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts: Revised and Updated, 2001.

James Dunn:

Jesus Remembered (Christianity in the Making, Vol. 1), 2003.

A New Perspective On Jesus: What The Quest For The Historical Jesus Missed

John Meier:

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus: The Roots of the Problem and the Person, Vol. 1, 1991.

Mentor, Message, and Miracles (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 2), 1994.

Companions and Competitors (A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 3), 2001.

Mark Allen Powell:

Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the man from Galilee, 1998.

Fortress Introduction to the Gospels

Jonathan Reed;

Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus: A Re-Examination of the Evidence,

E.P. Sanders:

Jesus and Judaism, 1985.

The Historical Figure of Jesus, 1993

Albert Schweitzer:

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Gerd Theissen:

The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide

Robert E. Van Voors:

Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Studying the Historical Jesus)

Geza Vermes:

The Changing Faces of Jesus

Jesus in His Jewish Context

Jesus the Jew: A Historian's Reading of the Gospels

The Religion of Jesus the Jew

N.T. Wright:

Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2)

Various Scholarly Articles of Interest

The Canonical Gospels

Non-Canonical Gospels

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Other Various Works from Antiquity

it should be fun and educational. maybe the start of something great and far bigger than me.

so this semester....

I shall study Jesus. Hopefully this will lead to some type of paper in the longerish nature. Even more I hope it leads to some fresh thought and dialogue.
I am also going to eat food this semester. Not that I have neglected that activity in the past I just felt like sharing that I would be continuing to do so. so if you are also one who is eating food this semester and I highly suggest that you do, you should consider a meal with me. It would be fun, I promise.
I shall also post things from time to time. Probably after I finish my Latin, Greek and study of the Romans.

Post-colonial discourse anyone?

so why is it that.....

the professors i think i would like to work with are at institutions that do not grant doctoral degrees???
but alas i have a few years to discover new and passionate ones that have a drive and heart for what they do that are at place where i can go and work with them.