As we all know, there is a tool used in Historical Jesus studies that is called the criterion of embarrassment. It is employed, along with other tools such...
Richard, In the service of my aim to ask and answer the question of whether or not "what we think we are saying when we say the words of the LP" is true (i.e.,...
As I understand things, the thorough-going eschatologists like Weiss and Schweitzer argued that Jesus believed with absolute certainty not only in an...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Points Raised by Rikk Watts On: Mark (1) From: Bruce 1. Rikk had said, "Adela's approach to authorship seemed eminently ...
I've poked around Eisenbrauns page and find now that they list the new biography of Bultmann (published in concert with this, his 125th birth-iversary). ...
As some will know, we have a collection of 2,000 short letters or extracts of letters transmitted to us from Isidore of Pelusium, who lived in the early 5th...
Does anyone know where I can find out about Armenian catenae? I know nothing about them, except that they exist. I have a project running to translate the...
A reality check for me: How accurate is my following definition of the Shema? the call to Israel to love and obey and be faithful to its God, that is based on...
With apologies for the cross-posting. All, Because I know you all like books--and like them cheap :) Eisenbrauns has begun a Deal of the Day (DOTD) which we...
Jeffrey, I believe I have seen or heard it said that the events could not have happened because Jesus most likely could not read. I'm sorry that I cannot...
What are the best studies on the question of the historicity of the events narrated in Lk. 4:16-30? What are the arguments advanced/reasons given by...
Paul may have had security concerns concerning the funds that he collected from Achaia and Macedonia. Firstly, bandits were a danger (2 Cor 11:26). Secondly,...
Goulder notes that one of the fundamental assumptions of "the accepted history" of the LP is that it was something that Jesus composed and taught to his...
One of the things that Goulder and others (e.g. S. Van Tilborg) point to in attempting to make their case that the LP is a church creation and does not go back...
I noticed just the other day that the title of one of Reimarus' fragments ("On the Aims of Jesus and His Disciples") is similar to Ben F Meyer's 1979 book,...
Below is a draft of a summary of why Goulder came to the conclusion he did (i.e., "no") with respect to the question of whether or not Matthew's version of...
Eisenbrauns is running a sale for the next 10 days that may interest some of you: 45-50% off on selected Hendrickson titles. A sampling: "The Fathers of the...
Can someone here point me to one or two books or articles (with full bibliographical references) which could be used in a footnote to buttress the claim that...
With apologies for cross posting: Does anyone here have access to Peter Doble's /The Disciples' Prayer: A Study Guide to the Lord's Prayer/ ( Foundery Press,...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Bob Schacht (answering Jeffrey Gibson) On: Authenticity of Jesus in John From: Bruce gJn is interesting as the only Gospel which...
Jeffrey, There is definitely an application of the same principle in Jan Vansina's book Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology. I do not have the...
I take Mark's point, but surely one can form some view of what might be "embarassing" for a particular author, from a perusal of their literature. A saying of...
To: Synoptic Cc: Crosstalk, GPG In Response To: Jeffrey Gibson On: The Criterion of Embarrassment From: Bruce Jeffrey asks (on both Synoptic and Crosstalk) if...
To: Crosstalk Cc: Kata Markon (GMark); Synoptic On: Accretional Mark and Related Discussion From: Bruce All this cross-posting is a pain to keep track of, and...
Between and among English speaking Christians, there is no agreement over what the text of the Lord's Prayer to be liturgically recited is (compare the...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GMark, GPG In Response To: Several Personal Inquiries On: The Earliest Markan Narrative From: Bruce It may help if I answer at large, and...
The only information available at present follows: Une messe en son hommage sera célébrée en l'église Saint Joseph des Carmes présidée par Monseigneur...
To: GPG Cc: Various (with apologies for cross-posting) On: The Primitive Markan Narrative From: Bruce Folks, With the Groundhog already breathing down our...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG (for reorientation purposes) On: The Issue With Mark From: Bruce [This is both a codicil to previous postings, and a prolegomenon to the...
