Lamanite wrote:I'm flipping through The Temple by Edersheim and can think of several arguments with which to discount some of the assertions made by Piscataway's summary.
Given that Edersheim's book was published in 1874, I don't think it's really the best source for discounting current scholarship ;)
Lamanite wrote:And you're creating a post about some lame 50% discount. I got a a $10 off card from Deseret Book in the mail yesterday. Perhaps it's a conspiracy that only Half Tongan Mormonites are receiving this discount based upon our dominant presence in West Valley?
Bush League
Lamanite
Well, Lamanite, did you use your gift certificate on a book written by a friend? A book, that is, which did not gain publication until yet another of your friends intervened? And, moreover, was the book plugged by a series of folks who just happen to interweave with your ideological agenda? Finally, does this book happen to support some of your own, personal pet theories?
Mister Scratch wrote:Intriguingly---and perhaps do to his network of "associates"---DCP was not required to pay the full price:
Daniel Peterson wrote:Unfortunately, it's very pricey. I got mine for 50% off at an academic symposium in Boston last month.
Was this a 50% discount given over to all symposium participants, or did The Good Professor receive a special, Mopologetic discount, as it were, due to his special "connections"? At the very least, I think that one cannot help but marvel at the incredible series of social networks, price gouging, coincidences, gossip, and behind-the-scenes deal-making that brought this book into being. Just think: this book would never have been published had it not been for DCP's "friend," and furthermore, notice how the premise of the book neatly supports a key Mopologetic argument. And, DCP managed to score a whopping 50% discount on it to boot!
It was the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and discounts for every participant reach 50% throughout the conference and up to 75% on the final day. I spent less than $100 on almost $300 worth of brand new books there. It has nothing to do with some clandestine "connection."
Mister Scratch wrote:It turns out that even the endorsements on the back cover of the book have deep Mopologetic connections:
DCP wrote:The book is endorsed on the back cover by Margaret Barker and the late Raphael Patai, and it features a foreword by Steve Wiggins, whom I especially appreciate because of his important work on the goddess Asherah: A Reassessment of 'Asherah': A Study according to the Textual Sources of the First Two Millennia B.C.E (Neukirchen-Fluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993).
We all know who Margaret Barker is, if only from K. Shirts's endless name dropping in his now-infamous YouTube films: "Bill Hamblin's in Oxford! He's meeting with Margaret Barker! Say hello to Bill Hamblin! He's in Oxford!"
I have to say, there are an awful lot of astonishing coincidences here. One wonders if Mopologetics is possible *without* a network of "back-slapping bros."
Rather silly conspiracy theory, although it's funny to see you suddenly making something of "coincidences." Usually "coincidences" can never be anything but coincidences with you guys. There's really nothing sinister about a manuscript not being published and then getting published, even if Dr. Peterson knows someone who had something to do with it. It happens all the time, with and without the secret combinations of Daniel Peterson and his ilk.
Mak wrote:There's really nothing sinister about a manuscript not being published and then getting published, even if Dr. Peterson knows someone who had something to do with it. It happens all the time, with and without the secret combinations of Daniel Peterson and his ilk.
Mister Scratch wrote:Well, Lamanite, did you use your gift certificate on a book written by a friend? A book, that is, which did not gain publication until yet another of your friends intervened? And, moreover, was the book plugged by a series of folks who just happen to interweave with your ideological agenda? Finally, does this book happen to support some of your own, personal pet theories?
An interesting development! I have just received from one of my minions some more information that may be of interest to those perusing these pages. Enlightening, indeed, that DCP appears to have received said discount of up to 50% based on mopologetics. This is odd, because typically discounts ought only be given to those of strictly opposing viewpoints. I take no interest in Calculus, but if I showed up at some mathematicians conference and expressed my general disdain for their work I could rightfully expect to receive some sort of discount. Or at least a ten dollar gift card to be redeemed upon purchases of 50 dollars or greater.
Liz, can I expect to see you at the next Walpurgisnacht? I can assure you your discounts will continue.
One moment in annihilation's waste, one moment, of the well of life to taste- The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste! -Omar Khayaam
Lamanite wrote:I'm flipping through The Temple by Edersheim and can think of several arguments with which to discount some of the assertions made by Piscataway's summary.
Given that Edersheim's book was published in 1874, I don't think it's really the best source for discounting current scholarship ;)
This is a most interesting assertion.
So anything written in the 1800's has absolutely no value in the evaluation of a book written in the 21st century?
Mister Scratch wrote:Well, Lamanite, did you use your gift certificate on a book written by a friend? A book, that is, which did not gain publication until yet another of your friends intervened? And, moreover, was the book plugged by a series of folks who just happen to interweave with your ideological agenda? Finally, does this book happen to support some of your own, personal pet theories?
Yes on all accounts. What was the book you ask? The newly discovered memoirs of E.A. Wallis Budge: I was just kidding around about that Osiris stuff! edited by Rabbi Shlomo a.k.a. Life on a Plate a.k.a. Daniel C. Peterson. *cue sinister music*
Can it be? Is Life on a Plate really DCP or vice versa? Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Mister Scratch wrote:Well, Lamanite, did you use your gift certificate on a book written by a friend? A book, that is, which did not gain publication until yet another of your friends intervened? And, moreover, was the book plugged by a series of folks who just happen to interweave with your ideological agenda? Finally, does this book happen to support some of your own, personal pet theories?
Yes on all accounts. What was the book you ask? The newly discovered memoirs of E.A. Wallis Budge: I was just kidding around about that Osiris stuff! edited by Rabbi Shlomo a.k.a. Life on a Plate a.k.a. Daniel C. Peterson. *cue sinister music*
Can it be? Is Life on a Plate really DCP or vice versa? Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Bush League
Lamanite
I'm certainly not DCP and do not see why such an assertion would be made.
That being said, enjoy your discount.
One moment in annihilation's waste, one moment, of the well of life to taste- The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste! -Omar Khayaam
