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The 3ST as I've expounded it involves at its heart the hypothesis that the Double Tradition had two sources: part of it represents Luke copying Matthew ...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron Price On: Testing the 3ST From: Bruce [I went to Ron's web site in search of the following information, but not readily...
... passages, ... somewhere ... Ron, I'd be interested as well. At least from initial appearances, this result would not serve to separate your idea from mine...
... RON: Yes, for I contend that the logia was in Aramaic, and that Matthew used the logia. ... RON: Matthew translated almost all of the logia. ... RON: But...
[Third try] To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: 3ST From: Bruce Thanks to Ron for his prompt and detailed responses; I will have a slow look at them, and...
To: Synoptic On: Testing the 3ST From: Bruce Ron, On slowly working my way through your list of 35 passages which reflect source A, whether meditated by...
... Bruce, Papias' statement about the logia implied that it was never translated into Greek. There are at least three reasons why it was never canonical....
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: Papias etc (ap 3ST) From: Bruce Still trying to figure this out. Thanks to Ron for his helpfulness at several points. This...
... RON: What proportion of Christians have studied Hebrew? I suggest it is a very small proportion. In practice the vast majority make use of translations, so...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: James From: Bruce Not all the recent points can be pursued without getting into more detail than is probably appropriate...
It is my understanding that, although a given MSS or language family may tend to quote from a given OT version (MT, DSS, LXX, Peshitta, etc.), that even in a...
... Bruce, What is so implausible is that Mark presents Peter as the leading follower of Jesus, yet it is clear from both Galatians and Acts that within 10...
... Lance, Let's consider a legal analogy. If witness A denigrates the character of witness B, do you believe witness A? No fair-minded person would do so ...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Various On: Jacob From: Bruce [Unlike most E-lists of which I have experience, Synoptic is set so that the REPLY button gets you...
... Bruce, This is a deviation which does not address the point I was trying to make. The fact is that you and many others believe 'witness A' (Mark) who ...
Ron wrote: Let's consider a legal analogy. If witness A denigrates the character of witness B, do you believe witness A? No fair-minded person would do so ...
... that ... tend ... Dave, The narrative pericopes tend to be longer, but it seems that they tend to be copied less faithfully. At least this is my...
At some point I might try to investigate how significant these numbers are, but I'll wait until I can devote more time to it. For now, I'm thinking through...
... Dave, There are about 14 contiguous xQ-material blocks in Matthew, where each block could perhaps be said to represent a pericope. There are 11 contiguous ...
Ron, I was thinking of blocks that would need to be defined by being contiguous in both Matthew and Luke. These blocks could be a pericope, or a single saying...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Previous 3ST Thread From: Bruce The discussion between Dave and Ron has its statistical interest, but it is almost supernaturally...
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Bruce, Thanks for the inventory. That is helpful. If we had total word length for for each of the As, A1-A7, and for each of the Bs, B1- B13, then we'd be...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Dave G On: Hellfire in Matthew From: Bruce On the Aramaic material identified by Ron Price as lying behind Matthew and (at one...
... Bruce, Your interpretation is wrong. The 23 xQ strings I mentioned were never in the logia. They are strings of Matthean text which Luke copied directly...
... Bruce, Your survey is interesting, but you may wish to update it in the light of my previous posting. ... Yes, I believe the logia does give such an...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron On: xQ From: Bruce RON: Somewhere along the line I obviously didn't make myself clear enough. My proposal is that the xQ...
To: Synoptic On: John the Baptist In Response To: Ron From: Bruce Stepping aside for a moment from the 3ST as such, pending possible clarification, and turning...
... Dave, Down to pericope or saying level there are I think 73 such blocks. ... I count 18 sub-blocks in xQ and 57 in sQ (thus indicating that only 2 blocks ...