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Re: "Garrow generalizes about ‘scroll users’ and ‘codex users’ giving remarkably few examples (Josephus and Tatian, and then Luke and Matthew). According to Garrow, Luke trends to paraphrase like Josephus (the 'scroll user’), while Matthew is more likely to copy verbatim (as a 'codex user').&q...

I started a long post responding to Garrow’s third video, ‘Scrolls Are So Last Century’, but I realize that will take a long time to write and I may never finish, so I will post shorter individual criticisms and may convert them into a blog post later. So, first criticism: Garrow oversimplifies the ...

This was a follow up post to the previous one, examining Garrow's claim that he has 'a more obvious and reliable method for determining the direction of dependence' and that 'Mark and Luke have somewhat different accounts of the incident in question whereas Matthew agrees closely with portions of bo...

I'm reposing this that I originally posted to Facebook's Synoptic Problem Study Group (of which Alan Garrow is a member) back on Feb. 27. This is part 2 of a critique of Alan Garrow’s ‘Gnats, Camels, and Matthew’s use of Luke'. JSNT online 2023, PDF in this forum’s Files section. I posted Part 1 bac...

I'm first going to address the unsubstantiated 'unpicking' charge in the first video (video 1/5) and look at two of the synopses Garrow uses in the video to attempt to substantiate it: https://www.alangarrow.com/mch.html/ Garrow: If Luke is using Matthew, there are occasions where he has to remove M...

PPS - If you think Evangelion preceded Mark, I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. /s :D IMNSHO, Garrow is one of many scholars of the synoptic problem who sees the data through the lens of his own hypothesis (and that of the 2DH). I have criticized his lack of even-handedness...

Sorry for the interruption. I am sill trying to absorb what you've said here (and in this thread in general) and I'm afraid I've fallen a bit behind. I hope you can clarify two points for me (I had a third but have forgotten what it was): Sure, no worries! I've been busy. I'm happy that you're read...

In the third passion prediction, we can recover the likely wording of Evangelion on analogy with Mark and with reference to the resurrection narrative, which refers back to the passion predictions, as quoted by Epiphanius: He falsified what Christ said to Cleopas and the other when he met them, “O ...

I have only just leaned that Ted Weeden, whose name has come up on this forum a few times in various contexts, passed away earlier this year (April 2, 2023). https://www.crawfordfuneralhome.com/obituary/RevDrTheodoreTed-Weeden?fbclid=IwAR2BQ91zdbDzdrqOhSGl4haoGvFGxDq_xMp6y3ZLsQorE6oXTFwis58u-9g Best...

This is interesting and I'd like to pose a related question. While we can find Marcionite claims that the text of the canonical Gospel contained interpolations by Judaizers, is it clearly stated anywhere in an ancient source that Marcion claimed to have found an uninterpolated copy of the Gospel (a...