To: Synoptic Cc: GPG; Klyne Snodgrass On: Two Parables (#1, Mt 22:2 || Lk 14:16) From: Bruce If (starting from Day One to formulate a theory of Synoptic...
To: Synoptic From: Karel Hanhart Fwd By: Bruce [Karel has had trouble accessing the list, and has asked me to forward his reply to an earlier posting by...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Response To: Emmanuel Fritsch On: Death of John Zebedee From: Bruce Thanks to Emmanuel for his references on the tradition of John Z's...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG On: Two Parables (#2: Mt 25:14-30 || Lk 19:11-27) From: Bruce The moral of this exercise (at least for me) is that if we take details ...
I see from Mark Goodacre's report on the second day of the Oxford Conference on the Synoptic Problem that the three theories which are receiving most attention...
It might interest you to know that there are people who would say exactly the same about the Two Source Theory (and who would also think hasty and...
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... Leonard, Greetings. It seems a long time since we've heard from you. It is not dogmatic to recognize an obvious truth. Dogmatism only enters the debate...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG; WSW In Response To: Ron Price On: Markan Priority [Directionality Arguments] From: Bruce RON [Describing what happens to Mark in Matthew...
... Bruce, This explanation works for new material. But on the Griesbach Theory, most of Mark's material is a rehash of older material. Why bother changing the...
I think I'd venture that all three of the listed theories fail the test of basic plausibility - IF they are taken to be complete theories, with no additions...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Response To: Ron Price On: Directionality of Mark From: Bruce Ron has doubts about some elements in my note on strong and weak...
... Peter Head has a paper on Textual Criticism and the Synoptic Problem, but I'm not sure he discusses the relative ages of the reconstructed texts of Mark,...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Tim Lewis, Stephen Carlson On: Age of the "Reconstructed Gospels" From: Bruce STEPHEN: Peter Head has a paper on Textual Criticism...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG On: Mustard Seed From: Bruce Another interesting Oxford paper, combining two topics of perennial interest, is Charles W Hedrick, The...
In Boring's paper mention is made of T. F. Glasson's "20 instances in which MAs are represented by the 'Western' text of Mark." I guess this means Matthew &...
In answer to Bruce's second question (what is meant by "reconstructed gospels?"): yes, it refers to text critics' best attempts at reproducing the alleged...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Tim Lewis On: Reconstructed Gospels From: Bruce TIM: In answer to Bruce's second question (what is meant by "reconstructed ...
No, I was not suggesting that the Gospel of Mark postdated either Matthew or Luke. I was asking if, having better and/or earlier witnesses to the texts of...
... No, not in any detail. And I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I did discuss the fact that our textual evidence is quite different for the three...
Here is the relevant portion of the slightly less rough draft. Basically on these terms I agree with Tim, but with the nuance that we treat all three somewhat...
Tim wrote: No, I was not suggesting that the Gospel of Mark postdated either Matthew or Luke. I was asking if, having better and/or earlier witnesses to the...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG, WSW; Eldon Epp In Response To: Dave Gentile On: Date of Reconstructed Texts From: Bruce I think Dave's clarifications are very helpful....
... Bruce, As we are mostly in agreement on the topic of this thread, I will just take up this one remark. If you are weary, I am surprised. I am surprised...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Response To: Ron Price On: Synoptic Fatigue From: Bruce I had confessed to weariness at the interminable discussions that result when...
Thank you to Peter for those two posts. Yes that is what I was asking. Very interesting that given Matthew's early popularity that we still largely have to...
... Bruce, I agree that Paul was one of the essential ingredients for success. But I suggest that Christianity as we know it might never have arisen if Mark...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron Price On: Directionality of Mark From: Bruce I had asked: BRUCE: How far were Mt/Lk inspired by admiration for Mk, and how...
... Bruce, Again I must conclude that there is no point in further continuing this discussion. Distorting the presentation of one's opponent is no way to make ...