The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64446   Message #1056187
Posted By: Rapparee
18-Nov-03 - 09:45 AM
Thread Name: Jesus - Did he exist?
Subject: RE: Jesus - Did he exist?
Brucie,

I've read the Old and New Testaments several times end-to-end and individually several time. Also pop into the NT from time to time and read around in it. And in the King James, Douay, RSV, Jerusalem, Scholar and other versions. Also the Gospels of Thomas, James, and Mary as well as other "Apocrophal" writings (Revelation, Tobit, Esther, et al. -- it depends on your Bible). In translations; the only "old" language I an faintly conversant with is Latin. Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, and Aramaic aren't on my language list I'm afraid.

I've also read Lao Tzu, Confucious, various Zen koans and writings, the writings of the Buddha, the Book of Mormon (and Doctrine and Covenants), the "mythologies" of various places (Norse, Yupik, Aleut, Inuit, Navaho, Greek, Celtic, Finnish, for example).

That's what comes to mind right now, anyway. Oh, yeah, commentaries on the above, too. And histories of the various Churches.

I guess that's what happens when you're a bibliomaniacal librarian. There's a LOT of religious-related stuff out there.