tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post6963129275287021074..comments2024-03-12T17:34:02.225-04:00Comments on NT Blog: The most negative book review in our area?Mark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-82364957096842367472018-02-20T04:00:38.452-05:002018-02-20T04:00:38.452-05:00Just in case anyone still wants to profit from Pe...Just in case anyone still wants to profit from Peterson's review of Shedinger, it can still be found <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070805044837/http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol6No2/HV6N2PRPetersen.html" rel="nofollow">on Archive.org's Wayback Machine</a>.David Reimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17886492671751634816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-3558090178962444502014-04-26T09:43:34.293-04:002014-04-26T09:43:34.293-04:00Sounds like someone doesn't like what an inter...Sounds like someone doesn't like what an intertextual version of assessment does to cherished assumptions. "Q or not Q" is not only good reading (in spite of its alleged 'mishandling of sources')but could turn out to be the lynchpin in the argument advanced by Parvus in Vridar via Doherty. Perhaps the reviewer became aware of how disconcerting THAT would be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-71070627052156879892013-08-13T11:34:51.061-04:002013-08-13T11:34:51.061-04:00Thanks, kolhaadam. Yes, definitely a contender.Thanks, kolhaadam. Yes, definitely a contender.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-10529921867140609042013-08-13T09:06:56.027-04:002013-08-13T09:06:56.027-04:00A new contender for the title of "Most Negati...A new contender for the title of "Most Negative Book Review in Biblical Studies" <br /><br />http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8763Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-19286770019364336952012-09-28T09:34:25.292-04:002012-09-28T09:34:25.292-04:00Adamczewski's most recent book, Retelling the...Adamczewski's most recent book, <i> Retelling the Law: Genesis, Exodus-Numbers, and Samuel-Kings as Sequential Hypertextual Reworkings of Deuteronomy</i>, isn't any better. Nor can I explain why an NT scholar is writing a book on Pentateuchal and Deuteronomistic source criticism. Joseph Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043799174095794747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-59435900955947107462011-02-23T11:29:14.188-05:002011-02-23T11:29:14.188-05:00Blogging about it would be one idea...Blogging about it would be one idea...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01160274286073315975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-8947279884541289722011-02-23T09:26:21.525-05:002011-02-23T09:26:21.525-05:00Well, as the aforementioned recipient of both the ...Well, as the aforementioned recipient of both the Templeton Award and the scathing review by Elliott in JTS, I feel like I should add that Paul Foster himself wrote a positive review of my book on the Pericope Adulterae (http://ext.sagepub.com/content/121/6/309.full.pdf+html). So, like Jason, I feel lucky. As to that Elliott review, I have no idea what happened. At least Foster's review here deals with the book itself. Not only did Elliott seriously misrepresent me, attributing to me some claims that are the precise opposite of what I claim in the book, he chastises me for the cover of the book and my dedications, where I dedicated the book to my cancer-survivor mother and newborn son. I really have no idea how one is supposed to respond to that, especially as a junior scholar being reviewed by a senior figure.clkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17214168213206015923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-36676950764138921532011-02-23T07:41:23.359-05:002011-02-23T07:41:23.359-05:00Now I want to read Adamczewski.Now I want to read Adamczewski.Ken Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15306662794364203693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-57104825524923305982011-02-23T07:10:28.243-05:002011-02-23T07:10:28.243-05:00One man’s trash is another’s treasure. Chris Keith...One man’s trash is another’s treasure. Chris Keith won a Templeton Award for Theological Promise for his book The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus. However, J. K. Elliott’s review in JTS 61: 293-96 makes you wonder how the thing ever got published.JCEdwardsStAndrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17858455555380278230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-21618888381970740792011-02-23T06:38:49.371-05:002011-02-23T06:38:49.371-05:00I think this one is up there:
http://www.bookrevi...I think this one is up there:<br /><br />http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6566_7109.pdfErlendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03854528556692898657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-53591810165713999082011-02-23T00:14:18.561-05:002011-02-23T00:14:18.561-05:00Thanks, Rev. James; interesting stuff. Makes me ...Thanks, Rev. James; interesting stuff. Makes me want to look it out.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-27817981371091048022011-02-23T00:13:29.916-05:002011-02-23T00:13:29.916-05:00Yes, I imagine that reading that after having Paul...Yes, I imagine that reading that after having Paul as an examiner can only be an encouragement, Jason!Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-34523138851564851932011-02-23T00:12:44.865-05:002011-02-23T00:12:44.865-05:00I've read the book too and actually turned dow...I've read the book too and actually turned down the chance to review it. I don't recall if we discussed it earlier. I think we may have mentioned Rob Macewen's DTS doctoral dissertation, though.Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-192740682377131462011-02-22T23:24:31.188-05:002011-02-22T23:24:31.188-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.James F. McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561146722461747647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-24393704247758663112011-02-22T23:23:50.805-05:002011-02-22T23:23:50.805-05:00Is this the book on Matthew drawing on Luke that c...Is this the book on Matthew drawing on Luke that came up in earlier conversations on Q? If so, I share the dismay that not only will we apparently have to wait longer for a proper exploration of that scenario, but whoever writes the next one will have more of an uphill climb to overcome the impression given by this one. :(James F. McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561146722461747647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-27998740162984974952011-02-22T22:55:12.683-05:002011-02-22T22:55:12.683-05:00My nomination would be a 2003 tome written by a re...My nomination would be a 2003 tome written by a renown French scholar, M.-E. Boismard on the Coptic manuscript of Matthew's Gospel, Codex Schoyen (Cahiers de la Revue Biblique), which was "discovered" in 1999.<br /><br />Boismard took the retroversion of the Coptic text produced by H.-M. Schenke and attempted to produce a textual apparatus for it, as well as a theory of redaction for it. Unfortunately, Schenke's retroversion is nothing but a strict translation of the Coptic text into Greek, without accounting for any of the idiosyncracies and characteristics of the Coptic language. It would be like someone taking the NLT and translating it formally into Greek, and then Boismard finding textual variants to match it. <br /><br />Worse than that, for our illustration, we'd have to assume that Boismard couldn't read English, for it is altogether that he was writing this tome about a Coptic manuscript without knowing a shred of Coptic. <br /><br />Moreover, he concluded that Codex Schoyen has a text similar to the Armenian and Georgian translations, but he reached this conclusion by using a Latin translation of those two versions!<br /><br />Finally, although he scoured the entire New Testament tradition looking for corresponding "variants," he was entirely unaware of Coptic Matthew Codex Scheide, which was written in the same Middle Egyptian dialect, and dates within a hundred years of Codex Schoyen. Indeed, he thought that the siglum "mae" in NA27 referred to Codex Schoyen in Matthew, even though NA27 was written a half dozen years before Codex Schoyen was discovered.<br /><br />Fortunately, no one else seems to have read Boismard's book on Schoyen.James M. Leonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06064939564477543675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-29238915080614590682011-02-22T22:03:13.681-05:002011-02-22T22:03:13.681-05:00Wow. That is high comedy. Of course, Paul is certa...Wow. That is high comedy. Of course, Paul is certainly qualified to make such an assessment!<br /><br />He was the external for my viva, I certainly got my money's worth and we had some fantastic engagement. But I'm suddenly getting chills tonight thinking about what might have been, and above all I'm very grateful I escaped comparison with Dan Brown!Jason B. Hoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00259815143346242351noreply@blogger.com