At 12:47 PM -0600 1/4/97, Jonathan Robie wrote: >In Carl's last post, he refers to the Elenchus list. What is this list? As the narrator in Plato's Symposium says in that opening sentence, "I am not unrehearsed with regard to your question" (I just answered it in an offlist exchange). Elenchus is a list devoted to discussion of the early history of Christianity (as opposed to Ioudaios which generally touches on anything related to Hellenistic Judaism); it tends to be sort of free-wheeling and loose and it hasn't been as active in the last year or so as it once was. I think it was originally established to deal with the early history of the church, not so much the first-century (but not excluding it) as the institutional history and patristic stuff. Here's the blurb on how to subscribe: ELENCHUS listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca subscribe elenchus your name Early christianity Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics, Washington University One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, USA 63130 (314) 935-4018 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwc@oui.com WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/