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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Shane Mage <shm...@pipeline.com> wrote: >From this review I infer that Pullman is as oblivious as Williams to > the central fact about Gethsemane: that the disciples were *armed* > I would say the central fact about Gethsemane, which too many parties today are wont to forget, is that Jesus genuinely didn't want to go through with it. That said, wouldn't *anyone* lurking around the countryside at midnight in first-century Palestine, who wasn't an unmitigated halfwit, have been armed? What's your point about it? Presumably not that this guaranteed their successful ambush of a Roman legion! -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
