In a message dated 11/30/2003 8:03:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, randerson58@... writes: << But I was trying to determine the significance of the...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Dec 2, 2003 4:16 pm
I just finished reading Alex Damm's "*Ornatus*: An Application of Rhetoric to the Synoptic Problem" (*NovT* 45 [2003] 338-64), and have a few comments. I'm...
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Maluflen@...
Dec 2, 2003 9:26 pm
... I think you raise very reasonable precautions here, but it is difficult to judge the issue except on the basis of an analysis of individual authors. If an...
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Richard H. Anderson
randerson58@...
Dec 3, 2003 1:43 am
Leonard Maluf wrote ... of speech, discussed in the manuals, with considerable self-consciousness. He certainly knew, e.g., that he was using litotes where he...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Dec 3, 2003 11:50 am
... Richard, From my understanding of litotes, these are not examples: they are all intended literally. John C. Poirier Middletown, Ohio Synoptic-L Homepage:...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Dec 3, 2003 12:06 pm
... Leonard, I completely agree, and I guess that what I'm driving at is a sort of middle solution with two items: (1) among writers in general, one finds a...
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Richard H. Anderson
randerson58@...
Dec 3, 2003 12:48 pm
John C. Poirier From my understanding of litotes, these are not examples: they are all intended literally. Litotes is a rhetorical device of understatement...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Dec 3, 2003 1:46 pm
... Richard, Your definition of "litotes" took me by surprise, since I always thought that litotes was deliberate understatement, to accentuate the superlative...
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Maluflen@...
Dec 3, 2003 2:07 pm
In a message dated 12/3/2003 4:43:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... I think John Poirier may be right here, and that you may be missing a slight nuance in the...
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John Lupia
jlupia2@...
Dec 3, 2003 2:31 pm
According to Ad Herennium 4.38.50 "deminutio" (diminutio) is the lessening of one's accomplishments as a form of modesty (pudica) in a text or speech in order...
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Eric Eve
eric.eve@...
Dec 5, 2003 12:04 pm
... I confess my understanding of the meaning of litotes is pretty much in agreement with Richard Anderson's. This is also how the Oxford English Dictionary...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Dec 5, 2003 12:30 pm
... That's good enough for me: I stand corrected. Shows you how much I know about technical rhetoric. Now I just have to figure out where I got the wrong...
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Maluflen@...
Dec 5, 2003 5:00 pm
In a message dated 12/5/2003 3:59:35 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... I still think the Poirier understanding of litotes has not a little merit and foundation....
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E Bruce Brooks
brooks@...
Dec 12, 2003 6:40 am
To: Synoptic-L Cc: WSW [where discussions of philological method are currently taking place] On: Luke 1:1 in Retrospect From: Bruce Some time ago on this list...
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Maluflen@...
Dec 12, 2003 3:19 pm
In a message dated 12/12/2003 1:41:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, brooks@... writes: << (1) The probity and even the meaning of Luke 1:1 cannot be...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson@...
Dec 12, 2003 5:33 pm
... William Strange, THE PROBLEM OF THE TEXT OF ACTS (1992), believes, based on the manuscript evidence of Acts, that the author of Acts died before completing...
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Jim West
jwest@...
Dec 21, 2003 1:52 pm
thanks to jim davila's blog for this bit of news: This fascinating bit of news from the world of Television: Banned From the Bible, NEW YORK, Dec. 19...
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David Gentile
GentDave@...
Dec 23, 2003 3:08 am
My study is here: http://www.davegentile.com/synoptics/main.html And the article is here : http://www.sciencenews.org/20031220/bob8.asp Dave Gentile Riveside,...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson@...
Jan 7, 2004 1:58 pm
This is an adaptation of my weblog post, phrased to get a discussion going. Perhaps another place to look for Luke's knowledge of Matthew is in his other work:...
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Mark Goodacre
M.S.Goodacre@...
Jan 7, 2004 2:23 pm
... This is a fascinating observation -- thanks very much for sharing it. On such occasions I like to try to get into the Q theorist's shoes to see if I could...
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Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson@...
Jan 7, 2004 4:32 pm
... Coincidence (here in the form of "independent redaction") is always possible but not often probable. For one, this independent redaction by Luke in...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Jan 7, 2004 6:25 pm
[I tried sending this over an hour go, but it apparently didn't go through. I'm now resending, with a slight change.] It's interesting that a bunch of Q...
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Ron Price
ron.price@...
Jan 7, 2004 7:55 pm
Surely a good case could be made for Acts 1:2 as a reminiscence of Mt 28:16-20. Acts refers to "the day when [Jesus] was taken up to heaven" (a scenario ...
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John C. Poirier
poirier@...
Jan 8, 2004 12:37 am
It's interesting that a bunch of Q skeptics are trying to play-act as Q believers, but I want to do the same. ... I doubt that this is what Luke would have...
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Jim West
jwest@...
Jan 12, 2004 1:09 pm
I thought listers may like to know that born this day in 1825 was, Brooke Foss Westcott, near Birmingham, England. He was appointed the chair of Professor of...
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David Miller
milledm@...
Jan 12, 2004 2:11 pm
Last week Stephen Carlson proposed that the mention of "baptism of repentance" together with the prediction of a "coming one" in Acts 19:4 is best explained by...
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Ken Olson
kaolson@...
Jan 12, 2004 2:12 pm
... Wow! That's rapid career advancement! ( ; OK, more seriously: I realize Jim does not mean to imply that one event followed immediately on the other....
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Mark Goodacre
M.S.Goodacre@...
Jan 12, 2004 2:43 pm
... Nice to see the Birmingham link. Westcott went to King Edward VI School in Birmingham just down the road from where I am sitting now. He met J. B....
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Jim West
jwest@...
Jan 24, 2004 3:35 pm
Luke 14:23 contains the little phrase, "compel them to come in..." This phrase is absent from the synoptic parallels. Hence, my twofold question: 1) assuming...
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Maluflen@...
Jan 24, 2004 4:38 pm
... 1) assuming something other than Markan priority - why was the phrase dropped? 2) assuming Markan priority- why was the phrase added?>> There is no...
