Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state legislators packed a hearing room to view a two-hour tape of Speck cavorting with his prison lover. Purportedly filmed in 1988, three years before Speck's death, the tape shows the two inmates snorting cocaine, rolling marijuana joints, brandishing a roll of $100 bills and engaging in oral sex. "If they only knew how much fun I was having," Speck deadpans to the camera, "they would turn me loose...
...document distributed today, and that includes the oral supplement today, is not, I gather, a 'report' as cited in the charge and I hope it will not be entered in the record as such," Kuhn said...
...executive producer and director of the TV movie The Gospel According to Jesus mentioned in your report. Neither history nor science has ever proved the existence of ghosts, much less Holy Ones. The Gospels as we know them were written by ordinary people from generations of oral accounts of a very special prophet's teachings. Because they were written by humans, they may indeed contain factual errors and embellishments. Nonetheless, Jesus taught us that ordinary people are valuable teachers and that we should accept and forgive. The precise points of what Jesus said or didn't say, did or didn...
...Johnson's staunchest ally. Wright knows and likes Crossan--the two go drinking after their debates--but he calls his friend's latest book "radically wrong in almost every second thing it says." His own 40-page critique of the Jesus Seminar's work echoes Johnson's point regarding oral cultures and similarly questions the Seminar's snub of Jesus' apocalyptic, eschatological side. Most important, he concurs that it is a mistake to "carve up" the New Testament and analyze the pieces separately. Wright believes the Gospels are more supportive than subversive of one another: "If I read about...
...context, what they say is true." That allows him to concede that the Sermon on the Mount might have gone on longer than the Gospels suggest, and also to credit the differences among Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to "omissions and paraphrases" that were a natural part of an oral culture. Once that is settled, he believes the picture of Jesus that they present is fundamentally accurate...