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I had a friend who has been an editor for many years to give it a read over, as well as my doktorvater Mike Bird.
deinde.org Danny Zacharias 2008
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Jesus was -- along with the "historicity of the gospels" -- the topic of, the annual reunion-conference of Joseph Ratzinger's 40 or so doktorvater.)
MaryW commented on the word doktorvater
My dissertation adviser "was always greedy for the glory of being Doktorvater."
Charles Rowan Beye, My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), p. 111
March 6, 2016