Monday, May 07, 2007

Rowan Atkinson Gospel Reading

Over on the Christian Origins list, Zeba Crook posts a link to a fine three minutes or so of New Testament related comedy on YouTube:


Rowan Atkinson Gospel Reading

It's what NT scholars in the past might have called a "midrashic expansion" of the Wedding at Cana story in John 2. Or perhaps this is an earlier, more original version of the Cana story, its great primitivity demonstrated by the presence of a couple of locutions known to have originated in Q, i.e. "O ye of little faith" (Q 14.28) and "Weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Q 13.28).

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