To: WSW Cc: Synoptic; GPG On: Theory Types From: Bruce CHINA I used to stare in amazement at the contrasting results that Sinologists were getting for the...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG; Klyne Snodgrass In Response To: Chuck Jones On: Two Lukan Parables From: Bruce I remain unconvinced by Chuck's contention that nothing...
What are the best studies on the question of the historicity of the events narrated in Lk. 4:16-30? What are the arguments advanced/reasons given by...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic Postscript To: Authorial Luke [L1a] From: Bruce Sorry; in my previous note on Luke 1 as seen via the Farmer Synopticon, I neglected a...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic, WSW On: Induced Inconcinnities From: Bruce It is sometimes asked, with more or less extravagant metaphors, why would an author go back to...
To: GPG [Cc: Synoptic] On: Authorial Luke [L2] From: Bruce CONVENTIONS: K = many links to Mark (k = few); T/t ditto Matthew; B/b ditto Both; X/x all. L = no...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic, WSW On: Authorial Luke [L1] From: Bruce Ma Gwo-han (1794-1857) is known to Sinologists for recovering lost texts from quotations in later...
One of the things that Goulder and others (e.g. S. Van Tilborg) point to in attempting to make their case that the LP is a church creation and does not go back...
To: GPG [Cc: Synoptic] In Response To: In-House Query On: Two Healings in Mark From: Bruce [The Accretional Mark reconstruction is currently being criticized...
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!] ...
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...
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 ...
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: 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...
Mark Matson (Academic) I find it strange that you do not recall the main points of Casey's discussion on Mark 9.11-13, since discussion of your first point is...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Response To: Chuck Jones On: Sources for Mark (was Directionality in Mk 5:1-20 II) From: Bruce CHUCK: All of Mk's sources are lost to...
Chuck Jones wrote: Here is what I mean by brief, stand-alone passages. By brief I mean the typical synoptic pericope is 5 to 12 verses long; a few are shorter,...
To: Crosstalk Cc: Synoptic; GPG In Response To: Jeffrey Gibson On: Goulder on LP From: Bruce I agree that Goulder's argument that the LP is post-Jesus is very...
To: Crosstalk Cc: Synoptic, WSW In Response To: Jeffrey Gibson On: Lack of NT Attestation of LP From: Bruce JEFFREY: One of the things that Goulder and others...
Goulder notes that one of the fundamental assumptions of "the accepted history" of the LP is that it was something that Jesus composed and taught to his...
Jeffery, For "Martin Goulder" read "Michael Goulder. And isn't the best summary of MG's view of the LP simply his own short paper on the subject? Journal of...
Below is a draft of a summary of why Goulder came to the conclusion he did (i.e., "no") with respect to the question of whether or not Matthew's version of...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Delayed Response To: Chuck Jones On: The Toronto Synopsis From: Bruce My curiosity got the better of me, and I therefore sought out the...
If Lk 6:26-39 were handed in to E Bruce Brooks, or to anyone else on this list, as an original composition, and if Mark 5:1-20 were later discovered to be its...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW; GPG On: Morton Smith From: Bruce One point made in the Grafton review recently referred to was Morton Smith's vicious reviews of other...
________________________________ Don Traxler wrote Well, I haven't seen any evidence presented that it IS viable (for example, a citation from elsewhere in...
To: Synoptic Re: Grafton on Morton Smith From: Bruce I am posting this query on behalf of a Sinological colleague who raised it on another list. "I am curious...
To: GPG [Cc: Synoptic] On: Interpolations in Mk From: Bruce [I am copying this note to Synoptic, in case there are still a few "discontented" erudite persons...
To: Synoptic Cc: GPG In Response To: Chuck Jones On: Two in Matthew From: Bruce Chuck had supplied (in two messages) the following instances where Mk has one...
