TIM RICHARDSON -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 TR> On 01-16-09, MIMI GALLANDT said to ROY WITT:

 MG>> Roy Witt -> TOM WALKER wrote:


 RW>> Unfortunately, every word of the new testement was written at least 100
 RW>> years after the crusifiction. From notes and memory, which as we both
 RW>> know, not very reliable as time goes by.


 MG>> I can't remember if you read Politics, but a little while back I stated
 MG>> over there that I think it's very odd that none of the writings about
 MG>> Jesus were from the people who knew him the best; his family. Why are
 MG>> there no books written by Mary(his mother or James(his brother) or
 MG>> Elizabeth (his aunt, mother of John the Baptist). I know there were two
 MG>> different meetings a couple of hundred years apart to decide what
 TR> books to
 MG>> include and which books to exclude. It strikes me as very odd indeed
 TR> that
 MG>> those who knew him best weren't asked to write about him.


 TR> The Apostle John, the youngest of the Apostles, wrote five different
 TR> writings
 TR> in the New Testament. The only New Testament writer more prolific than John
 TR> was the Apostle Paul.


 TR> John and his brother James were Jesus's first cousins. Their mother
 TR> (Salome, I
 TR> think her name was) was a sister of Jesus's mother, Mary, and the wife of
 TR> Zebedee.


 TR> James too (not the same James the son of Zebedee, brother of John, but
 TR> Jesus's
 TR> own half-brother, James) wrote a book of the New Testiment.

Thanks for the information. I've long wondered about that.

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