"It is interesting to note that (as Dr. Abbott has shown) the fourth Gospel inserts or refers to every incident given in St. Mark which St. Luke has passed...
Check the bibliography at the bottom of the article. I would assume that the scholar is: EDWIN ABBOTT, Notes on New Testament Criticism (London, 1906) Here's...
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I'm going through G. Ch. Storr's treatment of Marcan priority in his _Ueber den Zwek [sic] der evangelisten Geschichte und der Briefe Johannis_ (Tübingen:...
Stephen, I asked my wife -- who lived over a decade in Germany and has her doctorate in German literature -- about your translation: "One of the two...
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... If it's any consolation that's how I rendered it too. Jim -- Jim West Biblical Studies Resources - http://web.infoave.net/~jwest Biblical Theology Weblog...
(I tried to send this last night, but it came back. Trying again...) According to my German dictionary, "die Grundlegung" is a foundation. To capture the...
... Thanks to everyone for all your help. This is helpful. Offlist, Ed Tyler suggested "to take as a basis" or "to base [something] upon" from the modern...
In his first big book, "The New Testament and the People of God", NT Wright outlines a perspective on the genre of Mark, which he characterizes as a sort of...
Dear Brian, I've not read Wright's book. Alas, I have not the opportunity. However, taking your resume as a guideline, I think Wright is right in seeking to ...
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I have a question for the group regarding what the author of the gospel of Mark is trying to tell us. I'm sorry if this may be slightly off topic, but I think...
... Dave, The "Have faith in God" looks like Mark's formulation. He may have intended it as the lesson to be learnt from the fig tree story and the verses...
Since I've just arrived to this list and haven't read all the conversations people have had so far, forgive me if I'm bringing up a boring or already discussed...
... Welcome to the Synoptic-L discussion list. Please append at least your first name and surname at the end of your contributions so we know who you are. ... ...
Hello, I've been looking at the salt sayings in Mark, and I would appreciate feedback on the following idea. Mark 9:47-50 It is better for you to enter the...
Dave wrote: How plausible does it seem that in the earliest tradition it was originally the Pharisees that had lost their saltiness? Tim: If you are asking...
Anon/Joe? asked: I've read about the normally accepted views of Mark priority and Q, Mark priority without Q, Luke priority, or Matthew priority. If I didn't...
In regards to Dave's salt suggestion I forget to mention that losing saltiness would be more applicable as a reference to Pharisees if it could be shown that...
... This is an interesting thread on "saltiness", raising some issues that I hadn't thought of before. To take the discussion in a different direction, the...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Tim Lewis From: Bruce In defining the Synoptic Problem, for those who think there is one, Tim had said: TIM: I think the question...
Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to sign up for the X-talk list, since that seems to be the direction this is going. But I did want to add one more thing...
Tim and I have been tossing some ideas around regarding this, and we thought we'd share it here to get a wider range of input. My study suggests that a least a...
... I am not sure whether "most scholars have argued" that or whether they have built on the assumption that Luke did not know Matthew, in the light of the...
Dear Bob, I was wondering how you would square this view with Marcus Borg's reading that the Jesus tradition placed Jesus against the Pharisaic emphasis on...
Hi Mark, Mark: I am not sure whether "most scholars have argued" that or whether they have built on the assumption that Luke did not know Matthew, in the light...
Hi Ron, I just saw this. ... story of the ... A19. But ... on 10:45. ... I think I'm going to speculate that 10:45 originates in Matthew or a version of Mark...
... My sense is that oral traditions sufficiently rigid to achieve the degree of verbatim agreement we see in the synoptics should also evidence the various...
All, I'm curious, and have been awhile, about source numbering (2 source, 2 1/2 source, etc). It seems to me that regardless of what one concludes about the...
... Stephen, Maybe if we could recover the actual list of sayings then we would see these features? The list could be quite different than what we think we...
So far we have several related ideas concerning possible early meanings and applications for the not "losing your saltiness/have salt" saying. 1) Dave asked...
Hello David, I don't think we can appeal to any consensus regarding some version of a Two Source Hypothesis. Who has done the count, and what constitutes a...