Dear Listers, Though I am sure I will receive a resounding rebuke (which would be better than the usual resounding silence!) I must ask whether or not the...
... There is no "solution" to the Synoptic Problem (unless some new, indisputable evidence comes to light, like an authentic copy of Q from the dusty sands of...
Kym, This list has been in a quiet spell for quite a while. Please understand that the silence is not a reflection of what others think of your ideas. It's...
It would seem that some replies to the list are not going to the list but to whomever sent the post to which one is attempting to respond. Though John Poirier...
To: Synoptic-L On: Are We Serious? From: Bruce [Sorry; got tricked by the Reply rules. This note, which apparently went only to Kym when earlier sent, is here...
Dear Bruce, Thankyou for breaking your silence, even if reluctantly. Let me comment on several portions of your post. BRUCE <<<My own silence in response to...
Thanks for the interesting posts, Kym, and for getting discussion on the list going again. In response to the general point about the quietness of the list, I...
... I'd like to add that posts most likely to get responses are those that ask a good question. Bob Schacht University of Hawaii ... [Non-text portions of this...
To: Synoptic On: Kym Smith's Johannine Solution From: Bruce Kym has attempted to read my recent note as a reaction to his work; it was instead a reason for not...
Dear Bruce, Thankyou again for entering the fray. It will take me two or three posts to respond to all of yours. Hopefully I'll do that before you or someone...
Bruce, here is part 2, one more part to come. <<<KYM: There were two reasons for committing what they had taught to writing. Firstly, those things needed to be...
Bruce, here is the third and final part of my response. Thankyou for allowing me to do so. <<<As for the scenario before us, it explains too much, too easily....
To: Synoptic In Response To: Kym Smith On: The Johannine Solution From: Bruce I have before me all three of Kym's responses (all of 22 May; here distinguished...
Bruce, so much for a little at a time! It will take me two or three days to get to the rest so you will need to be patient. <<<BRUCE: This is dismissive; some...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Kym Smith From: Bruce KYM: There were certainly 'contentions in the early churches' but that is something quite different from...
To: Synoptic On: Ascription From: Bruce Speaking of 2Pt, easily the least enthusiastically included of the eventually canonical NT writings, the situation...
... it was ... persons, ... churches. And ... to Peter, ... Twelve. ... they are not ... a ... going on with ... feeling. Why ... ascription be ... adjective,...
Lance, That was more or less the whole idea. An ascriptive text is not an authorial text, and lacks whatever authority the claimed authorship would have ...
To: Synoptic Especially: Lance On: Ascripture From: Bruce LANCE: I am saying that to call 2 Peter 'ascripture' would be interpreted to mean it is "free or...
... I had the same question as Lance as to whether asripture was a composite noun from a + scripture or a derived noun along the lines of ascribe =>...
To: Synoptic On: Ascripture From: Bruce ascripture < ascribe; ascription [a text claiming authority on the basis of its ascription to a given author, but in...
To: Synoptic On: School of James From: Bruce Seriously (for a moment), the sense I get from what seems to me to be the most judicious scholarly opinion is that...
Can one have any confidence, historically, in the "authority" of any of the Christian canon (or for that matter, the Tanakh), inasmuch as the books being...
To: Synoptic Cc: WSW; Al Cohen On: Ascripture Etc From: Bruce I have received a private communication to the following effect: "I have enjoyed your suggestion...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Dennis Dean Carpenter On: 2Pt Etc [nominal heading: ascripture] From: Bruce DENNIS: Can one have any confidence, historically, in...
Thanks for the tip on reply to the group, Bruce. I like your modern parallels. I would, however, choose The Stratemeyer Syndicate as a relatively modern...
Bruce, I would like to have completed my response to your former post but I had better keep up with your current rather than have you running too far ahead....
To: Synoptic In Response and Farewell to: Kym Smith On: Johannine Solution From: Bruce I think I have said enough by now to indicate why I did not care to...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Mark Matson On: Ascripture From: Bruce A pleasure to see Mark Matson's name once again, among those posting to Synoptic. May that...
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