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- Tue May 24, 2016 5:09 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mk 9:49 Proof that Canonical Mark is Not the Ur-Text
- Replies: 45
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Re: Mk 9:49 Proof that Canonical Mark is Not the Ur-Text
In context, Mark is just stringing together sayings that are associated by keyword — "pearls on a string", as some commentators have described it. He does that to create weird segues quite frequently. v. 35 — servanthood and greatness vv. 36–37 — servanthood and hospitality toward children...
- Tue May 24, 2016 4:16 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mark 16:9-20 as Forgery or Fabrication by Richard Carrier
- Replies: 105
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Re: Mark 16:9-20 as Forgery or Fabrication by Richard Carrie
If the grammar is confusing, perhaps that passage has been tampered with. There are numerous other problems with it, not least of which is the trinitarian baptismal formula.
- Tue May 24, 2016 12:28 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Mark 16:9-20 as Forgery or Fabrication by Richard Carrier
- Replies: 105
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Re: Mark 16:9-20 as Forgery or Fabrication by Richard Carrie
Charles Talbert (Paideia Commentary): Who doubts? (Do the Eleven worship and others doubt? Do the Eleven worship but some of them doubt? Do the Eleven worship and the Eleven doubt?) In Matthew, the particular phrase ( hoi de + a verbal construction) always refers to the entire group of people mentio...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 8:24 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The parable of the talents or pounds/minas.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 42366
Re: The parable of the talents or pounds/minas.
Ken, Thank you for the link to your thesis. I will definitely have a look. But when Klinghardt gets around to describing his own theory that the author of Luke used Marcion, he also allows for secondary influence from Matthew (see the chart on page 21). I think any synoptic solution that accounts fo...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 5:10 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The parable of the talents or pounds/minas.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 42366
Re: The parable of the talents or pounds/minas.
I'd love to read your chapter, Ken, but I don't have access to that book (and my budget for book-buying is fairly meagre). Just to briefly address your points, though they deserve a deeper investigation: 1. Generally speaking, Luke seems to have the more primitive version of parables more often than...
- Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:23 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The parable of the talents or pounds/minas.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 42366
Re: The parable of the talents or pounds/minas.
Thanks for the interesting analysis, Ben. If I have time I'll try to engage with some of your observations. I'll admit nothing is conclusive about this parable. When I started examining it, I expected Goodacre's theory to hold up. However, the cumulative balance of evidence tilts it the other way fo...
- Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:15 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: An inventory of Jewish scriptural literary forms.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12915
Re: Inventory of Jewish scriptural literary forms.
Thinking about Psalms, I'm not sure "hymn" and "lament" cover everything. Royal psalms are sort of their own category, and you have things like pilgrimage psalms, liturgy, etc.
Some psalms also have superscriptions, which would probably be a separate text form.
Some psalms also have superscriptions, which would probably be a separate text form.
- Wed Jul 08, 2015 5:11 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: An inventory of Jewish scriptural literary forms.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12915
Re: Inventory of Jewish scriptural literary forms.
Do you consider vassal-treaty language (especially things like enumerations of curses) to fall under "Law"?
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:17 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: An inventory of Jewish scriptural literary forms.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12915
Re: Inventory of Jewish scriptural literary forms.
How about an etiology? A short narrative episode that concludes with a summary that "and so that place was named such-and-such, for that is where such-and-such happened.” These are always folk etiologies, of course, and never correct. Similarly would be name etymologies. "Zipporah gave bir...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:20 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Special gMatt material in gMarcion?
- Replies: 20
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Re: Special gMatt material in gMarcion?
BeDuhn alludes to some Matthean harmonizations in Marcion's Evangelion, but you'd probably have to read through all the notes to pick it out. I haven't done that yet.