... Thanks, Mark. My take is that Multiple Independent(!) Attestation is one of the most important criteria that we have available. Unfortunately, there is...
Depending on your view of early document copying and/or transmission, you might believe that 1C Christians generally had access to multiple different gospels...
... David, There's another way to send the same message to multiple groups: Use the CC: field. Bob Schacht [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I just had occasion to read a large section of the XTalk archive (even though I'm not a member), in order to see if it contains anything relevant to what I'm...
I've sent several messages today all of which were addressed to Synoptic, GPG, and gthomas. In my case all three yahoogroups.com addresses were in the 'To'...
I usually sent HTML messages, so I am sending this as plain text to see whether I get spurious line breaks at or around the 72 character mark and/or...
I usually sent HTML messages, so I am sending this as plain text to see whether I get spurious line breaks at or around the 72 character mark and/or...
I usually sent HTML messages, so I am sending this as plain text to see whether I get spurious line breaks at or around the 72 character mark and/or ...
To: Synoptic/GPG. I hope it is now clear (for what it may be worth) that the thing I posit as early, and thus most relevant for the HJ, is the first layer of...
A good test of listening I was advised to follow many years ago was to ensure that what I thought someone had said met with their agreement that the account ...
The synoptic "tax collector" (Gk TELWNHS) probably refers to any Jew who bought a toll-collecting concession and collected taxes indirectly for the Romans. The...
To: Synoptic/GPG On: Mark and Paul. The trouble with all this information on Mark and Paul is that every scrap of it comes from one of two sources: (1) Acts,...
To: Synoptic/ GPG. On: Luke A and B On looking into the Synoptic archive, out of technical curiosity, I found two interesting things. (1) Though messages as...
From what I understand about both the 2SH and the 4SH, I can't see how the 4SH adds any explanatory power to the 2SH, unless in the 2SH you explicitly state...
Apologies for a (probably) silly question, but are there any synoptic theories that suggest that the words in sondergut Lk came from a different source than...
As I understand it, the addition of the Mt -> Lk arrow to the 2SH (thus creating the 3SH) basically allows for slight editing of text from Mt by aLk to create...
To: Synoptic (Jack Kilmon) / GPG That Jesus was a Jew is an unremarkable statement, but what actually does it get us? Which Jesus are we talking about, and...
The "hate" in Lk 14:26 is usually taken as original, with Matthew's "love ... more than" in Mt 10:37 as a softening of the saying. If this is so, then the 2ST...
"The Synoptic Problem FAQ" defines the minor agreements as "those agreements between Matthew and Luke against Mark (or 'anti-Markan agreements') that occur in...
To: Synoptic / GPG (again Mt 22:1-14) Speaking of bidirectionality, and revisiting the specific issue of directionality as it arises in terms of the two Feast...
To: Synoptic / GPG I think I earlier promised to demonstrate something about the Minor Agreements. But that was on the assumption that doing so would give me...
To: Synoptic / GPG. On: Mt 22:6-7 and Implications [Thanks to MkG for correcting one typo in my last, and for filling me in on the status of the lectionary...
I had just been admiring Drury because he is among the few who take the Parable of the Vineyard as a Markan composition, and he even casts doubt on the...
To: Synoptic/GThomas, cc GPG Mark G recently inquired whether Gospel of Thomas studies have taken account of the Farrar Hypothesis (FH). The evidence seems to...
As some of you may know, I am currently working on a book on the relationship between the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics. It occurs to me that I am not...
There has been much debate on the extent of Q. But recently the debate has inevitably spiralled towards a Q which is to all intents and purposes identified...
Bruce mentioned something that I believe is used as an escape hatch when one's synoptic theory hits a set a data it can't solve. As Bruce put it: "...a...
To: GPG Cc: Synoptic On: The Synoptic Problem From: Bruce Been on the road recently, talking to several scholars and conference organizers and private persons,...
