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|RE: multiple artifact confs: wanting AND instead of OR
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configuration groups and intersections are complimentary. intersections gives you the ability to have the following scenario: module A contains artifacts that support both (windows and linux) platforms AND (debug and release) types: art1.dll, conf="windows,release" art1d.dll, conf="windows,debug" art1.so, conf="linux,release" art1d.so, conf="linux,debug" Then if module B is dependent on module A, B can specify a certain platform and a certain release type with an intersection: A->B (windows) delivers both art1.dll and art1d.dll A->B (linux) delivers both art1.so and art1d.so A->B (windows+debug) delivers only art1d.dll since it is the only artifact that exists in BOTH the windows configuration and the debug configuration A->B (windows+release) delivers only art1.dll since it is the only artifact that exists in BOTH the windows configuration and the release configuration A->B (linux+debug) delivers only art1d.so since it is the only artifact that exists in BOTH the linux configuration and the debug configuration A->B (linux+release) delivers only art1d.so since it is the only artifact that exists in BOTH the linux configuration and the release configuration What you seem to want to do is to specify that an artifact is only valid within an intersection. So I think you are wanting to use the "+" notation in the artifact section of the ivy.xml instead of the dependencies section like I requested. Something like: art1.dll, conf="windows+release" art1d.dll, conf="windows+debug" art1.so, conf="linux+release" art1d.so, conf="linux+debug" I don't see any benefit to this as it seems to be the same as just another configuration name. Maybe if you elaborated on why you need this? --- Shawn Castrianni -----Original Message----- From: Garima Bathla [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:47 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: multiple artifact confs: wanting AND instead of OR Shawn, thanks. I think you're on the right track here. Let me make sure I'm not confused in my understanding: configuration intersections (JIRA IVY-1093) are NOT to be confused with configuration groups (JIRA IVY-1097). Actually, it sounds like configuration intersections may be precisely what I'm looking for. Can you provide an example of its usage? I'm guessing you might have something like: <dependency ... conf="default->dachshund+persian" /> I'll take your word that this has been implemented in 2.1.0-rc2, even though the JIRA issue hasn't been resolved yet. I had taken a look at configuration groups and it didn't seem like that would help. To use the example on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1097, take the following publication artifact: <artifact name="art51A" type="jar" conf="A,*[axis=platform]"/> I'm supposing that, if only the A conf was requested when that module was specified as a dependency, art51A.jar would be delivered. And if only a platform conf like windows was requested in the dependency, art51A.jar would still be delivered. So it would be the EITHER/OR behavior when really I want the BOTH/AND behavior. Am I interpreting that correctly? On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Shawn Castrianni < firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > There might be a way to use the new "configuration intersection" feature I > requested several months ago. It is available in the latest IVY 2.1.0-rc2 > release. It wasn't designed to do exactly what you requested, but might be > helpful. See the IVY website under release notes which reference IVY-1093< > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1093> and IVY-1097< > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1097>. > > > > --- > > Shawn Castrianni > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Garima Bathla [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:20 PM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: multiple artifact confs: wanting AND instead of OR > > > > Suppose my Ivy module descriptor (ivy.xml) has an > > /ivy-module/publications/artifact element like so: > > > > <artifact name=*"cute-dog-and-cat"* type=*"jar"* conf=* > > "dachshund,persian"* /> > > > > Now, what this means is that cute-dog-and-cat.jar will be grabbed if EITHER > > the dachshund conf or the persian conf is requested. What I would have > liked > > it to mean instead is that the JAR will be grabbed only if BOTH the > > dachshund conf and persian conf are requested. > > > > So I wonder if there's some way for an artifact to be resolved only if an > > entire combination of two or more Ivy confs is requested. This way I could > > express my dependency on this module with dachshund,persian rather than > > having to create a bogus combo Ivy conf, dachshund-persian. > > > > If I had to describe the generalization of my situation, I would say it's > > where the Ivy module has a preponderance of artifacts, each of which is > > needed in a Cartesian product situation, and I want to be able to use a > > Cartesian product of Ivy confs rather than have to create special > "Cartesian > > product Ivy confs." > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Garima. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. 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SHANE 'Shakey' Byrne stepped back onto the top step of the podium after winning a battle with Richard Cooper and Leon Haslam in the second race at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit.
It was Luke Mossey and James Ellison who led the pack into Paddock Hill Bend for the first time with Byrne getting a better start than in race one as he placed the Be Wiser Ducati into eighth.
Ellison, determined to secure his first win of the season, pushed Mossey for the lead and made a move on the fourth lap at Paddock Hill Bend, but the Quattro Plant Teccare Kawasaki rider was instantly on the attack regaining the position at Druids.
Ellison then repeated the move just three laps later, but Mossey again made the attack back whilst also having to defend their positions from Richard Cooper and Haslam.
The Nissan GT-R Safety Car was deployed again on the ninth lap when Michael Laverty's Tyco BMW began to produce smoke meaning he was forcd to retire just as Ellison had taken the lead at Graham Hill Bend whilst Cooper was also pushing Mossey back to third.
Disappointment struck Ellison again as he was forced out of the race just a few laps later thanks to a technical problem. It was then left to Haslam to race it home for JG Speedfit. He made a move on Mossey at Paddock Hill, but again Mossey was strong into Druids to regain the place. Haslam fought back hard and moved into second as the final fight began.
Byrne was on the move though and in the closing stages was the fastest rider on track before he made a move on Mossey at Clearways with nine laps remaining and then repeated the move on Haslam leaving Cooper in his sights.
A lap later and Byrne made a move at Clearways passing Cooper on the inside and holding on to take the first win for Be Wiser Ducati ahead of Cooper and Haslam with Tommy Bridewell and Dan Linfoot completing a top five representing five different manufacturers.
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3. Leon Haslam GBR JG Speedfit Kawasaki +1.778
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DNF. Jenny Tinmouth GBR Honda Racing
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"At the end of the day, Price thinks Boehner's people worked against him," says a Republican House staffer. "His style isn't to complain publicly, and he doesn't get emotional, but he is talking to members about how that vote went down."
Two years ago, Price was elected policy chairman, the conference's fifth-ranking position. He is considered a serious, conservative legislator by his House peers. The speculation about his plans and his frayed relationship with Boehner hasn't changed that, but it has made him less predictable.
For the moment, those who know Price well say he's not eager to begin fighting Boehner, but he is ready to speak out, should the debt talks get messy. "He is hoping for the best, hoping taxes don't go up with any fiscal-cliff deal," says a Price ally. "But if Republican leaders make a mistake on taxes, he wants conservatives to battle."
A Price run for a speakership would likely be fueled by outside conservative groups, but even Price confidants admit that it would be extremely difficult. As his friends explain, Price would consider a run only if there is a groundswell against Boehner later this month. If there is not a groundswell, then they almost certainly lack the wide support and name recognition to mount a serious bid.
Price is also being mentioned as a potential challenger to Georgia senator Saxby Chambliss, who has been critical of Norquist's anti-tax pledge. In 2014, Chambliss will be up for reelection and Price is considered a top primary contender. "Sometimes opportunity comes along and you weigh whether or not you can be of service," he says, when asked about the possibility.
Many Republican operatives think the "Price for Speaker" talk in the conservative backrooms is more about scaring Chambliss than scaring Boehner. "I hear he's interested in that primary, so he's making his name as a conservative," says a Georgia-based consultant. "That's what he's probably running for, not speaker."
Price won't make a final decision about a Senate run until next year. In the meantime, expect him to be more vocal in the lower chamber. "The House is rough and tumble, and I love it," he says. "If the speaker listens to the conference and agrees to not raise taxes, he'll be successful."
"So far, I think the speaker is doing that," Price says. "But we've got to watch what happens."
— Robert Costa is a political reporter for National Review.


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Out of the Park Baseball 16 v16.6.30 Update (2015)
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Mencari bakat-bakat pemain muda di seluruh dunia, bernegosiasi dengan agen pemain, menjual dan membeli pemain dapat anda perankan di OOTP 16 ini, semua tersaji sangat detail dan jelas, seolah-olah semua ada didepan mata anda dengan sangat realistis.
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OOTP 16 Patch #6, Version 16.6.30, Released!
We have just released the sixth update for OOTP 16, version number 16.6.30. It adds new features, has plenty of AI improvements and fixes reported bugs.
Info for online leagues: The file format changed in this patch, so commishes please make sure everyone of the league uses the same version.
Here are the improvements / fixes compared to version 16.5.23:
- Added dynamically generated hint / loading text based on the currently loaded game
- Emphasized leaders for batting & pitching stats in player screen
- Added pitcher WAR to team register history
- Allow separate overall and potential scales
- If not displaying current ratings, show potential ratings on player lists instead
- Improved game substitution logic
- Improved depth chart logic
- Improved lineup logic
- Added option to use 40-man roster for playoff roster eligibility
- Implemented playoff injury rules (players may be placed on DL in playoffs and replaced, but must miss the next series)
- Removed ability to use the DL in the off-season (players must be activated)
- Added quick accounting widget to finances screen
- Generate HTML game logs by default
- Fixed custom create game crash
- Fixed bug where remove DH would not work in game
- Fixed issue where custom lineup would be placed in wrong spot in 7-day lineup
- Fixed issue where custom lineup would give an incorrect error
- Fixed 1942-1945 league total stats
- Fixed error of double counting draft offers
- Fixed park factor for batter WAR calculations
- Added Batting runs to sortable player lists (park-adjusted, need to delete "\tables" folder in OOTP custom data folder, can be found via Settings dialog -> Troubleshooting -> Open folder containing customizable data")
- Fixed last 10 calculation for rescheduled games
- In Find a Player, added ability to only include "hometown" players, as well as search by award wins
- Fixed issues with 3D ball flight
- Updated Opening Day rosters (need to start new game for changes to apply)
- Fixed several minor bugs + text issues
Final thoughts:
This update wraps up the development of OOTP 16. We may release another maintenance patch later this summer, but in general we're now shifting to OOTP 17 development. No rest for the wicked!
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- Graphics: min. 1024x768 display
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I woke up on the couch the next morning at 4:00 AM and realized that it was Monday. I had the sudden urge to totally freak out at my Aunt Amy or not waking me when she got home from work that night, but kept it under control. Instead I calmly marched upstairs to her room and pushed open the door to find an empty bed. I walked two feet to cross the hall to Teddy's room, to find that he was not there either. So where was everyone? I still had my watch on, seeing as I had not taken it off the night before, so I checked it. Yes, it was definitely four on Monday morning. I went to the kitchen and saw the phone blinking. I pushed the button on the recorder, and it said,
"You have three new messages. First Message:" I listened closely.
"Jenn, it's me," my aunt, "I have to stay over at work tonight. Big rush in the Emergency room." Of course. So that explains that. "I called Mrs. Lenhart and she said that she would bring home Teddy. I don't want him to sleep there and be worried all night, so she is gonna call and then bring him over. Ok love you." Then a dial tone. I pushed the button again for the second message.
"Second Message:"
"Hello? I hope this is the right number. Jennifer? This is Mrs. Lenhart. Are you there, can you please pick up?" Why hadn't I heard this? I was not a heavy sleeper. Mrs. Lenhart got a little louder. "Jennifer," she called through the phone, "your aunt said you would be here. I don't know why you're not picking up!" She sounded really frustrated. Probably from having two four year-olds running around her house all day. I kept listening, wondering why I had not woken up. "Alright, well I guess I'll call your aunt back. Please call me if you get this message." And a dial tone. She didn't even leave me a number, though I supposed it would be somewhere in my aunt's phone book. I pushed the button for the third message. My aunt was screaming,
"Jennifer Bahr Carriage! You'd better hope you're in the bathroom because if I find out you are at a party you will be grounded until the end of next year! Teddy is staying at Mrs. Lenhart' s house and I hope you feel bad for him. Horrible!" The phone was slammed down and then a dial tone sounded. I rested my hands on the cool granite countertop and shook my head. I was is deep trouble. How could I have slept through that? At least Teddy would be at his babysitter' s in a couple of hours, and Aunt Amy wouldn't be home at least until tonight because of her regular shift. So I had to focus on getting ready for school, since I was wide awake now thanks to my aunt's screaming. I wondered how school was going to be today, secretly hoping that Ben and Martha would be back. Well, I would just have to wait and see.


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Please explain what "Enable always-on mobile" means on my Impulse 4g and why I should or should not use it
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What setting are you trying to configure exactly? Is this on a Android in Google Play store? If so, this just means that when a update is available for an app and it allowed to automatically update as per your request, it will download over AT&T's network and not over Wi-FI.
This option is in my phones settings (Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Enable always-on mobile). I'm trying to understand why I should or should not check this box. I have already checked the (Data enabled) box to enable data access over Mobile network. I just don't know what the other box means.
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Right. The "Enable always-on mobile data" means that the phone will always try to connect to the mobile data connection. This will allow things like push email to work so you will get them without having to do anything. If you turn that off, the phone will only make a data connection when you go to use it such as the web or Pandora.
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First things first - happy 4th of July, American readers! Apparently today's the day y'all celebrate freedom from some great oppressor of some kind, can't remember who. (grin) Have a great day and enjoy your fireworks!
This is a continuation of my Wolf/Alex fic 'Security', written for bananafrog over on lj who won a short story from me during the help_haiti fic auction, and wanted a continuation of one of my fics. I hope this is what you had in mind, and that you enjoy it, dearheart! ^_^
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"How'd you two meet?" Eagle asked.
Alex shot Wolf an amused glance as he finished making his tea, and Wolf actually grinned. "Same way you met him."
"I've never met him before in my life." Eagle frowned.
"Yes, you have." Wolf corrected him, calmly. "Neal, Davie – let me re-introduce you. This is Cub… you may remember him."
There was a long, long pause. "What the hell?" Snake asked finally. "Seriously, James, what the hell?"
Eagle was staring at Alex. "Cub? Little Cub? Little double-o-nothing?"
"That's Agent Rider to you," Alex told him, still amused, "and don't you forget it."
Eagle held up both hands. "As though I could!" He didn't stop staring as Alex sat down at the table next to Wolf. "So you really were working for SIS? It wasn't some kind of wind up?"
"Hell of a wind up, from my point of view," Alex said lightly. "Look, Wolf and I worked together one time-"
"Prague," Wolf nodded, as though this might mean something to his former team-mates, who barely paid attention to him anyway.
"-and things progressed from there."
"Heat of the moment, I could understand," Snake said slowly, and pretended to ignore their faintly incredulous looks. Snake was nothing if not avowedly straight. "Luring Wolf into a life of domesticity and 'oh no, we've run out of milk' is something a bit different."
"OK, so they progressed a long way," Alex conceded. Wolf glanced at him – his mouth was slightly quirked and his eyes half-lidded, and yeah. Alex was enjoying this just a little too much.
Deliberately, he leant forwards, and covered Alex's hand with his own, giving him a soppy, adoring look. "Aw, baby," he said, the words sitting a little awkwardly on his tongue. "Don't you want to share the details of our courtship?"
Snake raised his eyebrow at him, but Eagle was staring with unashamed shock. "I don't believe it," he said in a hushed voice. "Rider, you actually unearthed James' sense of humour."
Wolf grinned, leaning back in his chair and Alex laughed outright. "He only brings it out on special occasions," he confided, and Eagle huffed a laugh.
"You know, Cub, I think I'm going to like you."
It was, though Wolf would never have believed it, actually kind of nice to have people around who knew about their pseudo-secret relationship. It wasn't like he wanted to lay a claim to Alex – couldn't have, even if he'd wanted to – but he did enjoy being able to relax, put his arm around Alex, not have to worry about hiding things in front of people. It was... relaxing. His relationship with Alex was at once both the easiest and the most complicated thing in his life.
This was once again brought home to him when Alex, on the evening before he headed out to God-knew-where on one of his assignments, turned to him and said with a frown, "you know, I should probably have you listed as my next of kin somewhere. In case I land in hospital or whatever."
Wolf glanced up from the football. "Huh?"
"Next of kin," Alex repeated. "So you can come and visit me in hospital."
"Oh," Wolf paused. "How?"
Alex bit his lip. "I don't know. I'd probably have to have it listed on record with MI6, but I don't want them barging in on – this. Us." He thought for a second. "And, hell, I should probably make a Will. Make sure this place doesn't go to some second cousin when I die."
"'When'?" Wolf repeated, only half joking. "I thought you said you were going to be careful?"
Alex thumped down heavily next to him on the sofa and nodded. "I am. But I'm not immortal. Someday, I'm going today, and I'm assuming you'll still want to live here?"
"I'm older than you," Wolf said uncomfortably. "You've already said that I'll probably die first."
"And so you will," Alex agreed comfortably. "Here's hoping, anyway." The hand he intertwined with Wolf's gave the lie to his words. "Maybe we could get the deed for the house put in both of our names?"
Wolf spoke without really thinking. "We could always get married."
Alex stilled next to him, then glanced up incredulously. "Did you – did you just propose?"
Wolf thought back on his words. Shit. He had, hadn't he? "Um. No?" he tried.
"You did! I heard you!" Alex looked delighted, and Wolf knew that rarely ended well for him. "I was talking about legal rights, and then you said 'we could always get married'."
Wolf winced. "Spur of the moment thing. It was stupid."
"It was," Alex agreed, and leant over to kiss him, the angle making things awkward. "Worst proposal I've ever had."
"Oh, and you've had so many," Wolf returned waspishly.
"Well, Felipe did ask me to come and live a life of sin and idleness with me on his Caribbean island," Alex said thoughtfully, "but I had to turn him down."
"Because of me, right?"
"Because of you," Alex agreed. "And the fact that he was an evil mastermind living off drugs profits, but it's the thought that counts, right?"
Wolf pursed his lips at him, squeezing the hand he was still holding just a little too hard. Alex just laughed. "Yeah, well. Drugs billionaires and their islands aside, just give it some thought, yeah?"
There was something soft in Alex's eyes as he glanced at Wolf. "Yeah. OK then."
When he got back from his assignment, Alex mostly looked tired, but Wolf was prepared for that. His mama had always told him that if he was going to do something, it was worth doing properly - he had the evening planned out, and he implimented Stage One almost as soon as Alex walked through the door, sending him upstairs to have a bath and shoving all of his clothes into the washing machine before heading up to their bathroom with a cup of tea and a rather pained smile.
"What's all this in aid of, then?" Alex asked, accepting the tea with a tired smile of his own.
"Did some thinking, while you were gone," Wolf told him quietly, perching on the toilet, lid down, and trying not to notice the bruises Alex had acquired whilst he was away. Now wasn't the time to talk about them – Alex wouldn't bring them up until his report was written and the events were safely relegated to dry fact.
"Mmm," Wolf nodded. "Thought I might give up field work, if they'll let me."
"You don't do that much anymore anyway," Alex pointed out, his voice soft with tiredness. The hot water was clearly doing some good on muscles Wolf knew from personal experience would be stiff and sore in the aftermath of all the adrenaline.
"Exactly," Wolf agreed. Since his promotion to Major a couple of years ago (and murmurs of a further promotion in a few years, provided he kept up his service record), he'd done a lot of tactical work for the SAS, but not all that much field work. "Thought I might see about cutting out field work altogether. They might not let me, but..."
"Might be good," Alex definitely sounded sleepy now. "'f you're sure you won't mind me going off and doing field work whilst you stay here."
"Shouldn't think so," Wolf said frankly. If he had ever been seriously jealous of Alex, they wouldn't have lasted as long as they had. There was plenty of reason to be jealous of Alex, he freely admitted – Alex was effortlessly brilliant at his job where Wolf had to work and work to get anywhere, but Wolf found he just didn't have it in him to begrudge Alex that brilliance when it had kept him alive for so long, and was the result of so many years of exploitation.
"I'd like knowing that you're at least kind of safe," Alex admitted, relaxed enough to say things like that out loud.
"And I was also thinking," Wolf hurried on, before he could lose his nerve, "that maybe we should actually get married. You know. Because then I'd be your next of kin, and we wouldn't have to worry too much about Wills and all the rest of it."
Alex's eyes opened wide, and he shifted in the water (Wolf kept his eyes firmly on Alex's face because celebratory sex was best left to times when there was something concrete to celebrate) to stare at Wolf. "You really want to get married?"
Wolf paused, then nodded. "I really want to get married."
"Then I really want a proper proposal," Alex leant back, shutting his eyes with a grin on his face. "You can't spring that on me in my post-op bath, s'not fair."
Wolf grinned. In Alex-speak, that was a solid acceptance. "Proper proposal, huh?" Alex nodded without opening his eyes. "Fine," he knelt down by the edge of the bath, and fished briefly for one of Alex's hands, water splashing a little over the front of his T-shirt. (And if he missed a couple of times, well. Refraction. It was difficult to see Alex's hands clearly whilst they were underwater.) "Alex, I would be absolutely honoured if you would consider marrying me," he said as solemnly as he could manage.
Alex opened his eyes, and met Wolf's dead-on. "Well... go on then," he agreed, and Wolf surprised himself by laughing out loud. Alex freed his wet hand from Wolf's and dragged him down for a proper good long kiss. "Sealed with a kiss," he joked, and Wolf sat back on his heels, one hand coming up to stroke gently down Alex's cheek.
"Glad to hear it, sunshine," he said quietly, then stood to head downstairs. "Is pasta OK with you? I haven't been shopping in about a week."
"Pasta's fine, fiancé," Alex called after him. "And don't think I won't be telling your team-mates you proposed to me whilst I was in the bath, you unromantic git!"
Wolf headed downstairs without answering, still grinning like a fool. He never thought he'd say it, but he was looking forward to getting married.
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In the previous post I began my critical review of Hermann Detering's Falsified Paul, in which he argues for the inauthenticity of the entire NT Pauline corpus. He begins the book with an examination of our sources for the historical Paul, the letters written in his name and the book of Acts, trying to argue that they are both highly suspect. Instead we have so far found his reasons for skepticism themselves highly suspect. In this post we will continue to examine his reasons for rejecting the book of Acts as historically reliable, even though the burden of proof has shifted in light of the fact that he has not given good reason to doubt that the author of Acts was a companion of Paul (see the previous post).
Detering begins with Paul's claim in Acts that he received his religious training from Rabbi Gamaliel I, one of the most respected Jewish scholars of the 1st half of the 1st Century CE. He notes that "The Jewish-rabbinic tinge that one notices in many passages in the Pauline letters is usually explained from this background," and of course "The name of Rabbi Gamaliel is well-known in Jewish tradition." However, he does not think that Paul's connection to Gamaliel is historical because "in Jewish writings of the first two centuries CE there is no mention of a rebellious student of Gamaliel named Paul or Saul." (17) But he does not explain why we should have found one. Even though Gamaliel was highly regarded by later Jewish authors (one going so far as to say that "Since Rabban Gamaliel the Elder died, there has been no more reverence for the law, and purity and piety died out at the same time," Tractate Sotah 15:18), we have very little information about him, including the bulk of his teaching. In fact, "Tradition does not represent Gamaliel as learned in the Scriptures, nor as a teacher, because the school of Hillel, whose head he undoubtedly was, always appears collectively in its controversies with the school of Shammai, and the individual scholars and their opinions are not mentioned" (The Jewish Encyclopedia). The only information we have about any of his pupils is a saying he supposedly spoke comparing them collectively to different classes of fish (see ibid.)! And given that Saul/Paul was probably only one of many pupils, and that his own account of being "far ahead of my fellow Jews in my zeal for the traditions of my ancestors" (Gal 1:14) may not have been shared by everyone he encountered, it is not at all surprising that the rabbinic writings, which in any case are already fragmentary and obscure, should not have mentioned him.
Another problem Detering finds with Paul being a student of Gamaliel is that "It is...very remarkable that the supposed student of Gamaliel, who certainly would have received instruction from him in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament, cites passages from the Old Testament exclusively from the Greek version-as if in his life he had never learned Hebrew!" (17) Whether Paul knew Hebrew or not is obviously hard to tell because all his letters are in Greek, and we should note two things: 1) Paul was first and foremost a diaspora Jew, living in the Gentile world for most of his life despite having received his formal education in Jerusalem (see further Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, pp.323-335), and 2) The Greek version of the Bible, the Septuagint, was itself a translation from the original Hebrew (though we should be cautious in speaking of THE original, since the Hebrew Bible itself circulated in various manuscript traditions even in late antiquity) done by Jewish scholars in Alexandria, many of them from Judea (see here for a convenient summary). Given that Paul's primary ministry was to the Gentiles (i.e. Greeks) and that the Septuagint was fully accepted in the 1st Century as a legitimate translation there is no reason for Paul's extensive use of the Greek Bible to puzzle us. What's more, Paul writes as a theological innovator, making free use of many different authoritative sources in his work, including the LXX, Jesus tradition, common Hellenistic wisdom, etc. An interesting parallel may be drawn with Philo, who although he was born in Alexandria to a Diaspora family who had lived there for generations, was educated in both Jewish and Hellenistic culture and combined elements of both in his writings. Furthermore, there is also scholarly controversy over whether he actually knew Hebrew because he too cites mostly the LXX, despite being trained by Jewish scholars and his family having close connections with the Jerusalem religious leadership (see the Wikipedia entry here and here).
Detering then argues against the historicity of the stoning of Stephen and Paul's participation in it on the grounds that the scene is "theatrical and histrionic" and it "produces very little for a biography of Paul," other than "as evidence for which side the pre-Christian Saul-Paul was on, namely, on the side of fanatical, anti-Christian Pharisaism." In light of the portrait in Paul's own letters as persecutor, this would seem to be pretty important evidence for a biography of Paul! It is hard to see what exactly Detering's problem with this passage is. He mentions H.J. Schoeps' criticisms of the account, namely that "in spite of great significance as an archetypal martyr, Stephen plays no great role in early Christian literature and that his martyrdom falls entirely into the background next to that of James the brother of the Lord in 66 C.E." He overlooks the fact that Stephen may have been an archetypal martyr only in certain circles, and that Luke's perspective should not be taken as that of the early church as a whole. JP Holding further notes that "in terms of honor ratings, priority to someone like James over Stephen is completely intelligible. Schoeps' mindset is that of the modern individualist who thinks every individual deserves equal time; just as CNN sees fit to report in depth the deaths of single soldiers in war and stories of their families. Schoeps is off target sociologically, and so is his criticism. Stephen would not become a leading example versus someone like James simply because he was not a community leader whose example would be the one to be followed."
Detering also notes that "the material Luke uses for developing his destined death-Stephen is stoned after his speech against the Temple-contains the same motifs as the account of the stoning of James the brother of the Lord." (17-18) The implication is supposed to be that Luke is dependent on the James account. He does not say which account he is referring to, the one in Josephus or the one in Eusebius drawing on Hegesippus and Clement of Alexandria. In any case neither of these mentions a speech against the Temple, but there are two similarities, both things that James says. In response to the Jews' request that he warn the people not to "entertain erroneous opinions concerning Jesus," James instead proclaims openly that Christ "sitteth in heaven, at the right hand of the Great Power, and shall come on the clouds of heaven." When the Jews angrily rush to stone him, James prays "I beseech Thee, Lord God our Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." These sayings are both indeed reminiscent of Luke's account of Stephen's martyrdom, but it seems that the dependency should be the other way around, given that Hegesippus was a late 2nd Century author. In fact, James' last word seems drawn, not from Acts 7:60 (where Stephen says "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!") but from Luke 23:34 ("Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing"), which however has a complicated textual history (see footnote 1 here). In any case, Detering does not further argue for this dependency and Schoeps' suggestion that "The retouching of the facts [transferring details from the account of James' death to Stephen] allowed Luke...to unload the anti-cultic disposition, which was entirely foreign to him" is just that-speculation. If anything, if the 'anti-cultic' disposition was foreign to Luke, the fact that he included Stephen's speech is evidence of historicity: Luke includes the story even though it may not have fit his theology because it was handed down to him from his sources, whom he had thoroughly investigated and consequently trusted to be reliable (whether Luke actually had a 'cultic' disposition is a subject too big for this series).
Detering then takes issue with Acts' account of Paul's persecution of Christians in Damascus, forecfully insisting that "Paul did not have the slightest authority to undertake a persecution of Christians in Damascus, which was an independent city and not subject to the jurisdiction of the Jewish central authority (Sanhedrin)." (19) First, we should note that the scope of Paul's authority was quite limited. He obtained letters from the high priest for the synagogues, not the city officials, so this would have been an entirely local affair. Paul's persecutions may not have even been public arrests. He might have kidnapped the followers of the Way and taken them out of the city furtively. C.K. Barrett notes that "Given the good will of the synagogues in Damascus [towards Jerusalem leadership] it would be quite possible for Jews known to be Christians to 'disappear' (our own age is familiar with the phenomenon, and the word) and subsequently to find themselves in unfavorable circumstances in Jerusalem." (Barrett, Acts, Vol.1 pp. 446-447) Second, Acts does not tell us just what the letters would have told the synagogue officials. It may not have been an order so much as a 'firm request'. Professor Dunn's comments on this episode are worth quoting in full:
"For one thing, Luke attributes the initiative to Saul himself: it was he who went to the high priest and asked for letters of commission (cf. Acts 22:5)...Now, it is quite true that the high priest had no formal jurisdiction over synagogues, least of all in other countries. But he had at least two considerable constraints which he could bring to bear on archisynagogoi and synagogue elders. One was that he was responsible for much of the content and timing of lived-out Judaism; he and his councilors were the ultimate authority in matters of dispute, and it is not at all unlikely that Jerusalem authorities occasionally wrote to diaspora synagogues to encourage them to maintain the traditions and possibly to take sides in some dispute on timing of festivals and the like. The high priest might even have been willing to claim jurisdiction over a 'greater Judea' which included Damascus. In any case, the high priest was not a person whose envoy could be lightly disregarded or dismissed with his mission unfulfilled. The other is that the Temple in Jerusalem held an amazing range of financial deposits for Jews at home and abroad; it was Judaism's 'central bank'. It is quite conceivable, therefore, that any requests were backed, explicitly or implicitly, with threat of financial sanctions." (Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, p. 337)
This of course does not prove that Luke's account of Paul's persecution is accurate, but it does remove the taint of suspicion from this episode on account of its historical implausibility, and hence removes another reason to doubt Acts' reliability.
Detering then moves on to the accounts of Paul's conversion. He promises that"We will see below in more detail that Luke's presentation is clearly not to be understood as a rendering of historical events, but as a tendentious rejection of the claim put forward by the writer of the letters to be an eyewitness and thereby a legitimate apostle of Jesus Christ." We will deal with this argument when it comes up, but already there is a serious problem with this suggestion: even though Luke does not describe Paul as actually seeing the form of Jesus in the bright light that surrounds him in the first conversion account (Acts 9:3-8), later in Acts Ananias is reported as telling Paul the following: "The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and hear him speak" (Acts 22:14). If Luke really meant to 'tendentiously reject' Paul's claim to having seen the Lord he would not have included this testimony. In any case there is really no doubt that Luke means to convey that Paul encountered Jesus and received a commission from him, as is evident again from Ananias' testimony to what Jesus told him about Paul: "this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel" (Acts 9:15) Luke may have defined the term 'apostle' more strictly than Paul did, but in terms of its general meaning, 'one who is sent', Paul is clearly an apostle in Acts and whatever else Luke would have called him, he was clearly 'legitimate'. Again we should say though that even if Luke meant to undermine Paul's claim to being an apostle, this does not preclude him being the companion of Paul, only that Luke and Paul understood Paul's status differently.
The only other reason Detering gives for doubting the conversion narrative is that "some of the material from which the author constructed his conversion story shows remarkable similarity with other well-known conversion stories in ancient literature. This too does not exactly speak for the historicity of the Lukan presentation." (21) Actually, the only thing it doesn't speak for is Detering's familiarity with historical scholarship. As JP Holding documents in detail, the recasting of stories in terms of previous stories was "a normal practice and an admired skill in this day" (see here, point 2). One important parallel we can point to and which Detering should have mentioned is Justin Martyr's conversion account in his Dialogue with Trypho, chs. 1-8, which also follows standard conversion narrative conventions. Some scholars appeal to this fact as reason to doubt the accuracy of Justin's portrayal of his own conversion, but they do not deny that Justin himself wrote it, or that this was his own understanding of his conversion!
In any case, the one example Detering gives of a parallel falls far short of establishing his argument. In one of Luke's accounts Paul describes the voice he heard as saying, "It hurts you to kick against the goads." This is reminiscent of a scene in Euripides' Bacchae, in which the god Dionysios counsels King Pentheus that "Instead of kicking against God's goads as a mortal, you should rather offer sacrifices." Detering quotes Uta Ranke-Heinemann as concluding that "This Dionysius episode has obviously been taken over into the Damascus scenery. An ancient persecution saying is taken up in a Christian persecution saying." (21) There are two problems with this: 1) as documented above, speakers often recast their stories in terms of other stories, so even if Paul is borrowing from the Bacchae this would not mean the account is ahistorical and 2) by Paul's time the expression 'kicking against the goads' was a common one, not necessarily alluding to Euripides' play. When we take into account Paul's audience in this scene, the Hellenistically inclined King Agrippa and his court, Paul's use of common Hellenistic images seems entirely appropriate.
Detering's further comments on Acts are even less substantial, noting only that "The apostle is portrayed by the writer of Acts primarily as a miracle worker and missionary (not as an independent theological thinker)" and that "At the Areopagus in Athens the apostle preaches the message of the resurrection, which stands at the center of his preaching (The Paul of Acts has never heard anything about justification by faith alone)." (22) As to the former, he seems to have no inkling that these two portraits are not mutually exclusive (see again Christopher Price's discussion of this issue in his extended Acts article, linked to in the previous post); this is just another feeble attempt to twist the difference in perspective between Luke and Paul, which even conservative commentators acknowledge, into an absolute incompatibility which makes Acts useless as a historical source for the life of Paul. As to the latter, we should note two things: 1) Paul was speaking on the Areopagus to a thoroughly Hellenistic audience for whom the dispute over the righteousness of the Law would have been meaningless and irrelevant, in contrast to his audience in the letters for whom the issue IS important, indeed crucial and 2) Paul's doctrine of justification by faith is inextricably linked to, and is in fact founded upon, the fact of Jesus' crucifixion and then resurrection from the dead. One wonders what Detering makes of this passage: "Therefore [Abraham's] faith was reckoned to him as righteousness. Now the words, 'It was reckoned to him,' were written not for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification." (Romans 4:22-25)
Detering then briefly wonders why Acts ends so abruptly "although there would certainly have been many wonderful stories to tell here" (22) before dramatically concluding that "After working intensively on Acts, I realized that the attempt with its help to get closer to the person of Paul had failed miserably. The biographical information it contained about the apostle seemed to be mostly legendary in character...anyone who would base his historical knowledge of the Apostle on Acts must tumble into the deep, golden abyss of fairy tales and legends...The question whether anything at all in the presentation of Acts could have historical value could basically not be answered by a historian who was aware of his responsibility." (23-24)
As we have seen in some detail, however, nowhere does Detering offer the kind of thorough discussion which would legitimate this radical skepticism about Acts, and his interaction with mainstream scholarship-which again and again clarifies and demystifies Detering's supposedly insurmountable challenges-is almost non-existent. Nowhere does Detering discuss the work of Martin Hengel, for example, one of the most highly regarded modern historians of antiquity, who has extensively argued for the reliability of Acts in its original context. And he does not discuss the other reasons scholars have given for trusting the author of Acts, such as his vast and detailed familiarity with features of mid-1st Century geography, politics and culture that would have been hard to come by for someone who was not familiar with them first-hand, in an age when "there were no almanacs providing ready information regarding titles and dates of officials and no easy access to official records by someone of Luke's likely rank and status." (for a full documentation, see Christopher Price's article on Acts, pp.20-35) Thus Professor Dunn's judgment seems justified, that the accuracy of detail "can hardly be better explained than by Luke's own involvement with those caught up in the events (or with the events themselves), or by his having access to eyewitness accounts of the events." (Dunn, Beginning from Jerusalem, p.81)
We conclude then that there are no good reasons for thinking that the author of Acts was anything other than a sometime companion of the historical Paul, a contemporary whose account can be corroborated by external sources and by Paul's own letters to a remarkable degree. This by itself should make any further discussion superfluous, and our contact with the historical Paul secure. But the main thrust of Detering's book is his reasons for skepticism of our other important source for knowledge of Paul: the letters written in his name. And since historians work in a dialectical way with the letters and Acts, each being compared with the other, and further that Paul's letters are universally taken to be a more secure historical starting point than Acts, we will still have to look at those reasons. That will be the task of subsequent posts.
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In the previous post I began my critical review of Hermann Detering's Falsified Paul, in which he argues for the inauthenticity of the entire NT Pauline corpus. He begins the book with an examination of our sources for the historical Paul, the letters written in his name and the book of Acts, trying to argue that they are both highly suspect. Instead we have so far found his reasons for skepticism themselves highly suspect. In this post we will continue to examine his reasons for rejecting the book of Acts as historically reliable, even though the burden of proof has shifted in light of the fact that he has not given good reason to doubt that the author of Acts was a companion of Paul (see the previous post).
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- JD Walters said...
For tracking purposes.
- Jason Pratt said...
Good posts so far, JD!
Notably, things like the termination point of Acts indicated to JAT Robinson that the text was written pre-70--and before the martyrdom of James, too. Indeed, considering that James plays a more extensive role in Acts than Stephen, it doesn't make much sense for an author writing in the 80s (not to say substantially later!) to land so strongly on Stephen at the expense of the James-cult. (Luke could have presented it prophetically foreshadowing the death of James--who doesn't appear in Acts until well after Stephen's martrydom. Indeed, the only prophetic foreshadowing of martyrdom in Acts is Paul's, and that's pretty loose.)
- Quixie said...
Thanks . . . . . I read all the links you gave me and these new posts too.
I sorta jotted down some impressions on my own blog.
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