To: Synoptic In Response To: Chuck Jones On: Matthew Used Luke (PS) From: Bruce I guess I should read my own stuff better. As a pendant, then, to my previous...
Bruce wrote: I would personally be glad to see a Lk > Mt directionality argument, for any passage of choice. Consider this response one vote in favor of such a...
Leonard wrote: But I doubt that Mark's priority would have escaped being known in the early centuries, had it been a fact. Dave: This is a reasonable question....
Bruce, Thanks very much for the references below. Does anyone know of any online availability of these? Chuck Rev. Chuck Jones Atlanta, Georgia E Bruce Brooks...
Bruce wrote: I would personally be glad to see a Lk > Mt directionality argument, for any passage of choice. Consider this response one vote in favor of such a...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: Chuck Jones On: Mt > Lk From: Bruce CHUCK: If Mt used Lk, a significant structural issue would dissolve--the fact that...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: Chuck Jones (PPS) On: Lk > Mt Passages (The Refused Invitation) From: Bruce How much general interest there may be in this...
... Bruce, This focus on the transition seems to me to be unduly narrow, and therefore flawed. It fails to ask about the likelihood or otherwise that the...
To: Synoptic Cc: Al Cohen; WSW In Response To: Ron Price On: Methodology Points in re Q From: Bruce I had said, BRUCE: I think the sovereign principle in...
... Bruce, I don't see how you come to this conclusion. The focus is solely on the process of "giving rise to", i.e. on how the author of the later text might ...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: Ron Price On: Directionality Determinations From: Bruce It is conceivable that this topic is wearing out its welcome, but:...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: Ron Price On: Genre of Q [was: something else] From: Bruce I don't seem to be having much success in imaginatively and...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW Clarifying an Earlier Response To: Ron Price On: The Metzger Principle From: Bruce Before bothering any eminent persons, let's see if we...
Seasons Greetings to All: The discussion about directionality or the order of Gospel production is unsatisfactorily broached by Metzger. The principle of :...
... Chuck, That's a fair question. Firstly compared to the nearest documents: the synoptic gospels, all of which have a definite structure and a story line...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: John Lupia On: Directionality Determinations From: Bruce JOHN: . . . Moreover, that which best explains the origin of the...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: John Lupia On: Lk 5:11 parr From: Bruce I now go back to consider, as a practical case of text philology, the specific...
Readers may be interested to read the obituary for Dom Bernard Orchard, who died on November 28th (peacefully in his sleept in the early hours of the morning)....
... Bruce, Hasn't Bruce Metzger just sold off his whole library of books? I'm not sure that someone in that position would want to be answering such questions....
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW In Response To: Ron Price About: Bruce Metzger and the Basic Principle of Text Philology From: Bruce RON: Hasn't Bruce Metzger just sold...
Ron, My reconstruction implies no particular elapsed time. In fact a compressed time frame would make it more likely that Mt and Lk would have a stage 3...
Hey John, Are you arguing for the priority of Luke? And you didn't mention it when I first asked the question in the thread named Why not Mt used Lk? You...
I see you agree with me about misapplications of Textual Criticism (TC) criteria to that of Source Criticism (SC), first voiced by me four years ago next ...
... Well, if you claimed that this was a misapplication, and that Metzger himself was not advocating or engaging in such a misapplication, why then did you...
... Jeffrey: I owe you an apology for taxing your aging eyes. It was my scribal error of accepting a text as trustworthy that led to this mistake and my sloth...
... Jeffrey: I owe you an apology for taxing your aging eyes. It was my scribal error of accepting a text as trustworthy that led to this mistake and my sloth...
John, I was kidding. I'm glad you weighed in. Is there a book or other resource you could recommend to me to learn more about arguments for Lukan priority? ...