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Here's an even worse example of how unsuitable the ESV can be for scholarly use. Our English verb "to see" is conjugated to translate THREE Greek verbs, horao, eidan, and theomai. Similarly "say" comes in variants critical for scholarly differentiation. But yes, MMS, the text can...

To prove anything about the Synoptic Problem, analysis of the Greek is necessary. However, it is not sufficient because most people don't know Greek to be able to read the answer. To display anything sufficiently to impress most people, use of English is essential. What Bible translation into Englis...

This is a bit off topic, but it's a major disappointment to me and confusing how writers like Irenaeus and Jerome and Clement of Alexandria make reference to various famous writers and literature like that of Papias or various Hebrew/Nazarene "gospels" or Hegesippus and yet these writings...

After all WE KNOW the Imperial authorities confiscated the Diatessaron from the churches of the East in the fifth/sixth century. Maybe whatever was used as the ONE gospel in any church was seized by the Romans as part of this deal. This would account for the disappearance of variously any diatessar...

Interesting developments here. This Jewish source indicates that Christians made a deal with Romans to "canonize" four gospels instead of one, and had to agree to discard the one. Now, why (SA) do we have to assume that the "one" is Tatian's diatesssaron or basically like it? The...

John 21:24 This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true. [According to Teeple, that's a late comment from R, the Redactor. John 21;25 is even later, just a gloss that's missing from Sinaiticus prime.] What a...

Peter perhaps set the tone for 2000 years of conversion witness stories by relating to John Mark in the gospels that he did bad things before the Holy Spirit saved him and turned his life around. Does Price think he overrules 2000 years of Christianity?

I thought I had found the scholarly vehicle to display how the gospels present John the Baptizer in so many ways that we can't really doubt he existed historically. On the Blasphemy & the Passion Narrative thread I had started displaying the comparative gospels to reveal the source elements. (I...

I have seen Mark 9:49 referenced in regard to the Atonement, when I think Mark 10:45 is the verse intended that established that Jesus came as a ransom for many. "For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many." This is the basis for Chr...

Casey may be right. John 3:22 to 4:3 is very disparate in origin. Using the text already presented here, here is Howard M. Teeple's breakdown into five components. S=Source, probably a text underlying (not derived from) the Synoptics. G=Gnostic type source. E=Editor who drew at least these two sour...