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This negligence on the part of Luke clearly indicates that the order, Capernaum before Nazareth, as found in Marcion, is the original one. simple and clear. One of these things so simple and clear, that is not even worthy a further discussion of this point and quasi I am embarrassed to have discuss...

The carpenter is an allusion to the divine artifex ( docet Brodie) hence it could work without a reference to "Joseph": The mindless people in Wis. 13:1-9 do not recognize the technites, the supreme craftsman, and turn their minds instead to lifeless things such as the tekton produces (Wis...

scenarios that are quite contradictory. because the character itself of the evidence is contradictory, in primis the dating of Paul. If the first epistle comes after the 70 CE, surely then the search for Origins in figures actives in the First Jewish War is 100% justified. Vice versa, under the tra...

The last point counts really as a typical example of editorial fatigue: How could Mark say that "when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything" (4:34) when, episode after episode, the same disciples are total idiots in Mark? Best answer: the negative portrayal of the di...

Martijn Linssen rightly pointed out that the pious women in Mark are condemned to silence because only so Mark could explain why the empty tomb story (absent in *Ev) didn't receive the attention that it would have deserved only with the his [of Mark] gospel. Another case of muteness as evidence of ...

This explains the difference between an Irenaeus and a Canonical Gospel. Irenaeus could be explicit and frank in his own rejection of marcionism: "I hate Marcion and I don't like everything written by him". A Canonical Gospel couldn't be so explicit and frank, since it worked on the same n...

They wrote their strips - pericopes which were then sent to editors and from which subsequent editions were created - *Ev, Mark, Matthew, John, Luke. Or vice versa - I don't insist on this order. But I insist on the process. I start to see where the theological dispute enters in your scenario: the ...

cf. with the example he uses to explain fatigue: continuity errors in movies. E.g. a prop which moves around incongruously during a conversation, things like that. surely a good example in such sense, of a continuity error as in the movies, is the omission by Matthew of the miracle of the healing o...

Guiseppe's effort to remove Jesus from the time of Pilate has been based on his interpretation of Greek and/or on a different and contradictory interpretation of Hebrew, and on an effort to date Jesus earlier, to the era of Jannaeus (a well-known error) and, on an effort, contradictorily, to date J...

It is surprising that, at least for a time, a Gospel (*Ev) is more faithful to historical reality than a historian (Josephus) ! Josephus was lying when he reported that John of Gischala feared only the his [of Josephus] influence on the "Galileans". *Ev 7:18-19 reported the historical trut...