tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post4601761456665312932..comments2024-03-21T14:59:20.729-04:00Comments on NT Blog: Patterson on DeConick on Thomas, and thoughts on form criticismMark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-3910867829609161812010-03-12T13:59:32.622-05:002010-03-12T13:59:32.622-05:00Your citation of Patterson begins, "Can form ...Your citation of Patterson begins, "Can form criticism be used to identify literary strata?" However,DeConick's rolling corpus model posits a Kernel Gospel to which additional material gradually accrued over time--and, so, the additional material cannot be divided into distinct literary strata. While, granted, she speaks of distinct time periods within the ongoing accrual process, with some unique features to each time period, a sharp distinction needs to be made between them and actual literary strata--just as, in historical geology, a sharp distinction is made between geologic time periods and rock strata, even though each geologic time period has its unique features.<br /><br />Also, since Patterson believes in Q, I do not understand why he fails, in his critical review of her book, to address this comment by her (pp. 7-8), "In fact, every Thomasine saying that has a parallel in Quelle belonged to the Kernel Gospel. This represents over 50 per cent of the sayings belonging to the Gospel. Not even one Thomasine logion with a common Quelle variant can be located among the accretions! This provides an independent confirmation, in my opinion, that the very strict methodology that I have developed and applied to the Gospel in *Recovering* was successful distinguishing between earlier tradions and later accretions."Frank McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13434215260580993981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-71983797818301791792010-03-12T05:56:03.585-05:002010-03-12T05:56:03.585-05:00Thank you for defining form criticism - theorizing...Thank you for defining form criticism - theorizing how sayings could have been used in a community. But just suppose that a text bore the marks of an earlier history that can be supported by another document. I am thinking of the writings attributed to Josephus in relation to the New Testament. You then surely have something to work with.geoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.com