I've been making use of Davies & Allison's three-volume ICC commentary on Matthew for over five years now. Among its many advantages are the thoroughness of...
Dear Listers, I have just completed a book (hinted at a couple of months ago on the Johannine List) on the Synoptic Problem. The book is titled 'The Synoptic...
To: Synoptic Cc: Bart Ehrman In Re: Bruce Metzger From: Bruce Quite apart from previous discussion, it seems somehow appropriate that this list should mark the...
List folk, I'm sorry to intrude on your day this way, but I've relocated my Biblical Studies Resources page to another server and wanted to ask you to update...
Shalom Synoptic-Listers I arrived back yesterday morning from Israel at 5:00 a.m. (in a NY snow storm) and was greeted with the hubbub over the purported Tomb ...
R. Steven Notley wrote: [As Cameron notes, she is the "Ringo" of the names in the tomb. In his analogy if you found a tomb with John, Paul and George, you...
To: Synoptic On: NT Wordcount From: Bruce I recall to have seen a wordcount for this or that book of the Greek NT, but not one for the whole NT canon. Can...
Bruce, I took the entire text of the NRSV from Accordance, pasted it into a WORD file and did a word count. The results: Page 346 Words 193,798 Characters (no...
Bruce, Here are some good sources for such word counts in the synoptics, if you have a good magnifying glass to read Tyson and Longstaff: Morgenthaler, Robert,...
... Bruce, Anthony Kenny in "A Stylometric Study of the New Testament" (p.14), quoting as his source 'Friberg and Davison', gives the total number of words in...
Of course, such a total count is only a ballpark figure. And while it is a Text Criticism subject, I think more interesting would be to hear from scholars...
... Joe, That's an interesting estimate of the range. In my opinion there was a very clear tendency to *add* text, and although this is already reflected to...
Since the MSS are written in scriptura continua, won't the count vary a bit by how the editor separates the words in addtion to what readings one allows into...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Many On: NT Wordcount From: Bruce Thanks to those who have kindly responded to the NT count question. There actually seem to be...
... Ken, What you say is quite true, but surely this would be a very small variation, and it would tend to cancel out over a large number of words - unless...
Apologies for cross posting. Here is a rough draft of the first section of an entry on "Jesus and Angels" that I am working on for a work on the Historical...
The Gospel according to the Hebrews The Synoptic Solution The Synoptic Problem Mattityahu, Mark and Luke are the synoptic gospels. In many cases these three...
Dear Jim, Thanks for your recent post to Synoptic-L. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of the first of our protocols, which asks for you to...
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...
