... Chuck, Mark et al., Chuck seems here to be saying that the synoptics are superficially similar, and if so, then I would have to agree. However at a deeper...
I find it unnecessary to suggest that I find Casey's arguments "terribly convincing" and that they are clear is a "stretch", and I find insulting the...
... Engaging with their arguments is what we are here for. We are not "the academy," and everyone here speaks only for himself/herself. Someone who says they...
I was quoting Matson and the "academy" was his term. Stephanie Fisher Nottingham ... From: Bob Schacht To: Synoptic@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 02,...
To: WSW Cc: Synoptic; GPG In Response To: Anonymous On: Authorial Consistency From: Bruce It is possible to define a humanist as someone who never took, or...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic On: Future Statements in Mk [M2] From: Bruce [I imagine these notes as being written in the year 1837, when Markan Priority in one form or...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic On: Interpolated and Future Passages in Mk [M3] From: Bruce I had earlier collected 10 probably interpolated passages in Mk [M1], and ...
Bruce, Bravo ! I congratulate you on a "tour de force" which I think is absolutely brilliant and seems to me totally justified in its conclusions. Dennis ... ...
To: GPG [Cc: Synoptic; see at end] Repeating: Mine of 11 Jun 2008 On: Satan From: Bruce A propos the current Satan discussion [on GPG], I was moved by a...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic On: Poverty in Mk [M4] From: Bruce In this series of [M] notes so far, I have reached a twofold division of material in Mk, roughly early...
Maybe for the same reason that we use "Satan" and not "devil" in liturgical texts, such as "Do you renounce Satan?" Leonard Maluf Blessed John XXIII National...
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I find this extraordinary: "The other day I was looking at a chart of the major Synoptic theories. And I was struck by the almost opposite diagrams that...
To: Synoptic On: Theory Types From: Bruce To my suggestion, that the great majority of those who hold opinions about the matter prefer either (1) a Synoptic...
Stephen, Thanks for the update, with its wry implication that Kloppenborg's opposition identifies the major alternative to his own preferred solution. I am...
... Stephen, I'm not sure I understand the logic here. Is it * If no one's beating it anymore, then it must really be a dead horse * If someone is beating it,...
My suggestion is really that there are alot of "active NT specialists" who think that the solution to the synoptic problem is more complicated than any of the...
Circa 48 CE price of bread in Jerusalem rose to 13 times what it normally was. (Jos. Ant.3.15 320). [Puts mid 2008 agri-commodity price rises in the shade!] ...
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... I'm just appealing to Kloppenborg et al.'s behavior as evidence that they perceive Farrer to be the (or, a?) main alternative. None of what I posted is to...
Bruce, Sorry to take one more stab at this, but I'm doing so because you never responded to this observation: Implicit in posts from you and Mark Matson,...
Actually, Chuck, my argument was not that Mark has no sources. (though I don't think he had written sources because I think Mark is an original composition)....
Mark, I wonder if you could give me an example of a passage that appears in the triple tradition in which the Markan version demonstrates an oral source...
One can't exemplify this specifically, Chuck. It has to work back to the solution to the synoptic problem. Hence each of the solutions to the problem could...
Mark Matson (Academic) I'm not sure why that was directed to me as well. I don't know what you mean by "significant". While Goulder was hardline in his...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Response To: Chuck Jones On: Synoptic Theory Types From: Bruce CHUCK (addressing myself): Implicit in posts from you and Mark Matson,...
Austin Farrer held that Matthew had sources for the teaching he incorporated into the Marcan narrative (apparently oral, though I don't recall him ever ruling...
Stephanie (sorry for the spelling of your last name): I included you only because earlier on this thread you commented (and I think correctly) that any...
Steph, For some reason, Farrer proponents (of which I am one) have stayed away from the question of Matthew's source(s) for the sayings. A few years ago, I...
Yes I understand that but I don't recall any 'Farrer' theorist ever conceding "written sources", not counting pre Jesus Jewish scripture. They may not have...