Word: matthew
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...funny because when the people in the town would find out I was applying to Harvard or I was going to Harvard, there was this big myth that my parents must be unbelievably rich, because it costs $28,000--no, $29,000--to go," says Matthew Davis...
...Matthew W. Granade contributed to the reporting of this story...
Coffey, Elizabeth A. Haynes '98, Matthew Mayers '97 and Eric D. Albert '98, all of whom had expressed interest in serving on the commission, were not chosen...
...Search for Jesus" included a page on the book I wrote with Matthew d'Ancona, Eyewitness to Jesus, about papyrus fragments that are the oldest bits of St. Matthew's Gospel. While it is encouraging that you gave our research such prominence, your article could mislead readers. It is not my opinion that a papyrus of St. Luke's Gospel in a Paris library "was written between A.D. 63 and A.D. 67." That papyrus, certainly the oldest of this Gospel, belongs to the late 1st or early 2nd century. The approximate dates of the four oldest Gospel papyri...
...obvious question, "Since some, although not all, scholars believe Matthew may have been written around A.D. 80, what real difference does a marginally earlier date make?" In antiquity, some 20 to 25 years was not marginal; that was the working life-span of a whole generation. And with a date prior to A.D. 70, when the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple occurred, we gain new insights into the historical Jesus, who prophesied both events. Records from eyewitnesses remain fundamental, and they are a challenge to scholars as much as to skeptics and believers. CARSTEN PETER THIEDE Paderborn, Germany...