From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Thu Jan 29 1998 - 13:09:32 EST
At 12:19 PM 1/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>The context does make it clear that the woman was held to be primarily
>culpable (otherwise, as many have pointed out, where is the man?).
>
>Cindy Westfall
>PhD Student, Roehampton
>
No- what it makes clear is that the woman is hauled in without any interest
by the pharisees for justice. They simply need an excuse to accuse Jesus.
The man is absent because they dont care about the crime, not because the
woman is more culpable.
Best,
Jim
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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology
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