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by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Morton Smith Movie
Replies: 41
Views: 336

Re: Morton Smith Movie

John Malkovich would be an interesting Morton Smith.
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Morton Smith Movie
Replies: 41
Views: 336

Re: Morton Smith Movie

I'm intrigued by the interaction that Smith had with other scholars, especially the ones that were convinced of Morton Smith's honesty and intent of working through a text that he didn't fully understand, but also the ones who knew him and suspected the worst. For Helmut Koester, who met and interac...
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Morton Smith Movie
Replies: 41
Views: 336

Re: Morton Smith Movie

Morton Smith could be a hell of a bible scholar biopic, if such a thing could exist at all.
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Morton Smith Movie
Replies: 41
Views: 336

Re: Morton Smith Movie

Secret Alias wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:05 am My assistant wouldn't allow me to write two scenes I was thinking of having. ... I don't know why my assistant is so prudish.
Asking the real questions here: (a) really? and (b) are you doing anything with this script?
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:52 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Against Polycarp
Replies: 12
Views: 204

Re: Against Polycarp

Eusebius claims to be providing a quote from Papais about the provenance of Matthew and Mark. There is no evidence to indicate that the quote from Eusebius is legitimate The statement above does not adequately represent the reality of working with sources, which are often fragmentary. For example I...
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:18 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Boy who cried wolf and Christian texts and history
Replies: 5
Views: 113

Re: Boy who cried wolf and Christian texts and history

And yes, you can say that the conclusion there is a non sequitur.
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Boy who cried wolf and Christian texts and history
Replies: 5
Views: 113

Re: Boy who cried wolf and Christian texts and history

According to the fable, repeated false statements lead to someone being ignored even when they are heard saying something true.
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: “You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!”: in Canonical Luke Jesus merely spoke BEFORE 4:23
Replies: 25
Views: 264

Re: “You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!”: in Canonical Luke Jesus merely spoke BEFORE 4:23

For context, I posted on this argument on the Facebook Synoptic Problem Study Group back on February 23, 2024, and got feedback from Josen Rael and others. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161682475903598&set=g.212992206399733 I have not yet reformulated the argument to take Jeff Cate's o...
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:08 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Boy who cried wolf and Christian texts and history
Replies: 5
Views: 113

Re: Boy who cried wolf and Christian texts and history

In this analogy, did we stop reading their arguments or... ?
by Peter Kirby
Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:40 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: “You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!”: in Canonical Luke Jesus merely spoke BEFORE 4:23
Replies: 25
Views: 264

Re: “You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge!”: in Canonical Luke Jesus merely spoke BEFORE 4:23

Tyson, Marcion and Luke-Acts , p. 83: For Baur the most convincing evidence for the derivative nature of canonical Luke consists of a number of inconsistencies that he perceived in it. For most of them he drew on Ritschl. One such inconsistency has to do with the order of pericopes in our Luke 4. In...