1. If you are looking for a nifty little Christmas gift for a reader, I'd recommend The Sayings of Jesus by Guy Davenport & Benjamin Urrutia -- a feat of translation so daring it amounts to creativity counterpointpress.com/dd-product/the…
2. The Sayings of Jesus gives us Jesus as earliest followers knew him, not contextualized by the gospels but as the sayer of memorable aphorisms which passed word of mouth: "What goes into your mouth cannot defile you, but what comes out can."
3. "Beware of scholars who like to wear fancy clothes." Good advice. I often think about this with regard to Allan Bloom.
4. "If you are on your way to court, come to a friendly agreement with your opponent on the way." Good legal advice from the Rabbi Yeshua bar Maryam.
