Raymond E Brown RIP

Raymond Brown died in 1998. The blurb for the new prepub collection makes it sound like he is still alive: "Since his career began nearly fifty years ago, Brown has pursued a career of honest scholarship of New Testament exegesis and interpretation."

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MJ. Smith

Raymond Brown died in 1998.

As a friend and priest always says "we're not aging, we're youthening" - his way of saying we're preparing for the next life. As a good Catholic priest, of course, Raymond E. Brown, S. S. isn't dead - it just looks that way from our limited perspective. [:)]

C'mon, it does push the limits of credibility to have the prepub/dust jacket/whatever infer that Brown (or anyone else) is still alive.

As an example, if you read the prepubs/blurbs for some books, you would not know they were written 100 years ago or more - unless you did deeper.

Ah, I love the smell of marketing in the morning!

Ken McGuire

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/19684#Comment_19684

I heard that he quiped that he picked the boundries of _The Death of the Messiah_ so that it woud come out before the death of Raymond Brown, but, as Wisdom 3 says,

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,

and no torment will ever touch them.

²In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,

and their departure was thought to be a disaster,

³and their going from us to be their destruction;

but they are at peace.