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Re: Peter the rock??? - #112
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Subject: Re: Peter the rock??? - #112
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From: David John Marotta <djm5g@virginia.edu>
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Date: 01 Mar 94 14:58:23 EST
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 15:39:05 EST
From: "Donald F. Parsons MD" <DFP10@albany.albany.edu>
Subject: Re: Peter the rock??? - #112
To: David John Marotta <djm5g@virginia.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of 24 Feb 94 13:50:45 EST
On 24 Feb 94 13:50:45 EST you said:
>One problem with this explanation is that Jesus undoubtably spoke to his
>disciples in Aramaic, a Hebrew-like language of the region. In Aramaic, ther
>is no distinction between KEPHAS the boulder and KEPHAS the pepple. The pun
>most likely cannot be dissected any more than a play on Peter's name, not on
>the distinction between the different kinds of rocks or words about rocks.
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>Ralph Henson
>Assistant Professor of Religion
>Northeast Louisiana University
>Monroe, Louisiana 717292
>HiHenson@merlin.nlu.edu
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I have been following this discussion and I am surprised that noone
is willing to take the Roman Catholic interpretation seriously. Is
there a bias against it? Don
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