Re: Another Scriptural Sidetrack

On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, The Other wrote:
> David O'Bedlam <thedavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, The Other wrote:
> >
> > > > Matt 15:21-28
> >
> > > I've always thought that the Canaanite woman was the most "Jewish"
> > > character in the Gospels. Definitely more "Jewish" than was Jesus in
> > > this exchange.
> >
> > Please explicate and elaborate about "Jewish"?
>
> Clever, verbal, quick-thinking, using brains to get what you want from
> a position of weakness.

Ah, so Nietzsche was right about that?

> Hell, you oughta know what I meant, you're the most Jewish poster in
> this newsgroup.

I'll take that as a compliment, thought I'm not sure what you could mean
by my particular "position of weakness".


> > And, separate question perhaps, what might "Canaanite" have meant
> > circa 14 AD/CE?
>
> I don't know, but I think in other Gospels she's described as
> Syro-Phoenician. Jesus comes across as pretty WASPy in this exchange.

Certainly very stingy. And I've met plenty of Jews who were generous with
me anyway; hell, if you consider Trotskyism to be Jewish then several have
even offered to cut me in.


D.

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