Theological Notebook: An Ancient Church Site Discovered in Israel

[novak]

I end my lunch break with the delightful news of a new archaeological discovery in Israel, with intact inscriptions, no less. Archaeologists Discover Ancient Church
Nov 5, 10:50 PM (ET

Comments

[novak]

Isn't it? I'm itching to get photographs of the whole thing and to be able to look at all the inscriptions!

[aristotle2002]

As a curiousity, can we find out yet if it says "'o theos" or "theos" in the inscription quoted above? I'm guessing the former...which would be cool...

PGK

[novak]

Cool, but backwards if was going be totally consistent ΚΑΤΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΝ. Have you read Barker on all that?εν αρχη ην ο λογος και ο λογος ην προς τον θεον και θεος ην ο λογος

[aristotle2002]

Not sure what you're talking about. I'm speaking in re to Arius's contention about nouns vs. adjectives.

PGK

[novak]

No, I was thinking in terms of something--naturally--associated with my biblical exam Tuesday. A scholar by the name of Margaret Barker has been writing some provocative--not to say radical--things about Second Temple Judaism still having holdovers of older Canaanite "pantheon" theology, El and YHWH as Father and Son to oversimplify, that would act as a Jewish theological basis for early Christology starting right out as High Christology. The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God will be a text I return to for a closer reading when all this is done. You might want to check it out--there's a lot of newer scholarship looking in these directions, if you didn't run into any of this at Blackfriars.