To: GPG Cc: Var On: The Conversion of Paul From: Bruce I have found out something. It is possible to go to your library, take off the shelves everything with...
To: GPG Cc: WSW, Synoptic On: A Reading in 1 Th 2:7 From: Bruce Principled judicial dissent (I am thinking of Holmes, and lately of Brandeis) occupies somewhat...
To: GPG Cc: Other On: Evolution in Christianity 2 From: Bruce [It is conspicuous in gMk that the seeming teaching material is largely organized in several...
To: GPG Cc: Other On: Evolution in Christianity 3 From: Bruce Another recently received book on the parables is B T D Smith, Parables of the Synoptic Gospels,...
To: SJS On: Evolution in Christianity From: Bruce One of the most obvious things that the evidence tells us is that Christianity evolved (few facts about...
My name is Jeff Reynolds. I live in Indianapolis with my wife of 26+ years (no kids). I'm an ordained minister though not regularly preaching (I work at a...
Thanks David, Fortunately, this Fitzmyer commentary on Luke is available at my local university, so I can check it out. Frides, Netherlands -- I am using the...
Dear friends of the list, A question on Luke 17:21 concerning 'entos humoon', most often rendered in translations as 'amongst you', occasionally translated as...
I have come across three written statements to the effect that the Farrer Theory is now the leading competitor to the 2ST. Poirier in 'Statistical Studies of...
To: GPG Cc: WSW, Synoptic On: John and the Synoptics From: Bruce The question of how the Gospel of John relates to the earlier Gospel tradition seems to me a...
To: GPG Cc: Various On: Coy John (Jn 21) From: Bruce TEXT STUDY The classical Chinese text called Jung Yung contains what scholars have judged to be references...
To: GPG Cc: Previous On: ARONSON 4rev From: Bruce Sorry, there were errors in the previously posted ARONSON 4 (LUKE) note (Moral: do not try to do philology...
To: Synoptic In Response To: Ron Price On: Lord's Prayer [different thread name] From: Bruce RON: I agree with Jack here. The use of "debts" for "sins" clearly...
To: GPG Cc: WSW, Synoptic On: ARONSON 1 From: Bruce In 1999, over there on the bookstore table next to the organic greeting cards, we had Marcus Borg: Jesus...
With apologies for cross posting. It's that time of year again when the Society of Biblical Literature's Annual Meeting is just around the corner (Nov. 21st -...
An interesting dissertation can be found here: <http://www.archive.org/details/TheSayingsOfJesusInTheParaen esisOfJames> "The Sayings of Jesus in the...
"Q as Hypothesis: A Study in Methodology" Francis Watson New Testament Studies (2009), 55:397-415 Abstract Arguments for the Q hypothesis have changed little...
Maurice Casey liberated a much-needed cat among the synoptic pigeons when he set out detailed evidence that an Aramaic source lay behind the 'Woes' ("An ...
In his "The Case against Q", pp. 165-69, Mark Goodacre argues that if the Minor Agreements were to be accepted as valid evidence that Luke knew Matthew, then...
Some of my previous arguments for the synoptic use of a sayings source do not necessarily apply to Luke. So I have now extended and clarified the arguments for...
To: GPG Cc: WSW; Synoptic, various In Response To: Dave I On: Lk 7:46 From: Bruce Dave asks about the meaning of three words omitted by Bezae in Lk 7:46. This ...
In Mk 1:2 par, both Mt and Lk do not have the Malachi quote. Both cite it later at Mt 11:10/Lk 7:27, but not here. Did they both omit it, because it is not...
What evidence is there (mss, patristic references, anything else) for the early existence of Luke chapters 1-3? To put it another way round, how far back in...
The longer I lurk on or contribute to online forums (all to do with the NT, as it happens), the more I get the impression that, however good the contributors...
Marcion wrote his gospel around 140 AD, and our two major sources for his text are Tertullian: 'Against Marcion' (207-208 AD), and Epiphanius: 'Panarion,...
To: Synoptic On: Matthew and Mark From: Bruce With its 2009 PB publication by SBL, Delbert Burkett's 2004 study "Rethinking the Gospel Sources v2: The Unity...
Is anyone familiar with Matthias Klinghardt, "The Marcionite Gospel and the Synoptic: A New Suggestion," in which he ties Marcion into the synoptic problem? I...
Just to bring the synoptic list up to date with some of the rest of the discussion. We are also trying to figure out Epiphiniaus's Luke. One explanation, and...
Just to let you all know that I have removed the message from the archive and banned the author. Sorry that sometimes these things get through. Best wishes,...