RLG203H5 Lecture Notes - Grape, Passover Seder Plate, Coptic Orthodox Church Of Alexandria
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In the 60s: dying in rome as a martyr as described around 64 ad, book: paul the martyr (by: david l. eastman, he was dead before the destruction of the temple in 70 ad. Why weren"t the pastoral epistles (non-pauline texts) cut from the bible: became part of the scriptures, they fit with what was going on and in the context. Just because not one guy wrote it, doesn"t make it any less important. Just because a section was added in later, doesn"t render it any less important. In the 1980s, canada stopped paying for circumcision. Christ circumcised (by: andrew s. jacobs: medieval christians and even later on, they didn"t practice circumcision, 100 years ago, this practice re-emerged so that people did not masturbate and not because of health reasons. According to kennedy, religion is: certain practices that is theorized after. Baptism: ritually dying and then reborn with christ; cleansing.
