tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.comments2024-03-12T17:34:02.225-04:00NT BlogMark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger7018125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-729412154282513832023-11-20T18:30:34.854-05:002023-11-20T18:30:34.854-05:00Hi I realize this comment is many years after this...Hi I realize this comment is many years after this is written, but I've seen this photo around and I always wanted to ask the creator why the beard was short. If the typical Galilean was Jewish, wouldn't the beard have been uncut? Brianna Siegristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16376685938960433888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-63783233726889884752023-11-08T16:21:36.854-05:002023-11-08T16:21:36.854-05:00Good to have you back (and guesting rival podcasts...Good to have you back (and guesting rival podcasts)! <br /><br />Would you consider having a chat with Joel Baden at some point? I'd love to hear my favourite NT and HB scholars engage even if you don't overlap in subject matter. But you both seem like voices crying in the wilderness when it comes to textual criticism.<br /><br />It's certainly funny Q was founded on the success of the Documentary Hypothesis which had now fallen out of favour, yet Q hasn't (yet) - I'm summarising as an outsider here.Jens Knudsen (Sili)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14078875730565068352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-182126592683573862023-09-21T12:17:42.575-04:002023-09-21T12:17:42.575-04:00I told you the world needs you doing less administ...I told you the world needs you doing less administrative work. 🙂Joe Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17612939757416703950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-60427515646776859872023-08-30T17:08:06.091-04:002023-08-30T17:08:06.091-04:00Regarding Ken Olson, do you an opinion of his argu...Regarding Ken Olson, do you an opinion of his argument for the wholesale interpolation of the Testimonium Flavianum by Eusebius in ‘A Eusebian Reading of the Testimonium Flavianum’, in Eusebius of Caesrea: Tradition and Innovations, edited by Aaron Johnson and Jeremy Schott (2013)?Misfired synapsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17511252566157846940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-55826543785443871672023-06-19T04:41:33.553-04:002023-06-19T04:41:33.553-04:00Comment from Joel Eidsath via email:
"It...Comment from Joel Eidsath via email: <br /><br />"It's interesting how both John and Acts (but not Luke) turn so many of these names into main characters.<br /><br />Paul, in Galatians, much closer to the synoptic pattern, repeats something like the Peter, James, and John formula, though as Jacob (but brother of the Lord), Cephas, and John. To my mind, it's an independent enough use to serve as some sort of historical indication.<br /><br />Joel Eidsath"Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-68483382514826899382023-06-18T19:12:34.579-04:002023-06-18T19:12:34.579-04:00Your point about "another Mary" is inter...Your point about "another Mary" is interesting.<br /><br />We would expect the gospel authors to define Mary by her relationship to her most important relative (Jesus), rather than by her relationship to her other sons. So, if Mary the mother of James and Joses was the mother of Jesus, it would be strange. Are there indications that Mark may have considered Jesus to be, by then, the son, not of Mary, but of God instead? Alternatively, perhaps there were attempts to protect the identities of witnesses of the resurrection, for their own safety. That is to say, the failure of Mark to explicitly identify this Mary, and the failure of the gospel of John to identify the beloved disciple, could have been protective silences. If, as seems likely, Mark gave her name as Maria, and names the mother of Jesus as Mariam, the different form of the name could have been part of the disguise.<br /><br />In any case, there is no difficulty in equating Mary of James with Mary of Joses and Mary the mother of James and Joses. The ancients were very comfortable switching between different names for the same person. There were no SBL style police to enforce naming consistency. Modern scholars should stop imposing their own expectations of naming consistency on the ancient writers. Consider, for example, that the copyists switched freely between "Maria" and "Mariam", even for the same person in the same gospel.Richard Fellowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06777460488456330838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-44142493784085504012023-06-17T04:23:25.103-04:002023-06-17T04:23:25.103-04:00Many thanks, Richard. Good thoughts. Another post ...Many thanks, Richard. Good thoughts. Another post to come on Mary Magdalene and others. Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-78332828210264921692023-06-16T22:41:22.484-04:002023-06-16T22:41:22.484-04:00Hi Mark. What score does Mary the Magdalene get?
I...Hi Mark. What score does Mary the Magdalene get?<br />It is also interesting that when a gospel writer gives disciples honorific names/epithets (Peter, Boanerges, Magdalene, Didymus) the same gospel tends to name those disciples first in lists of people, and the same gospel tends to name those disciples frequently. Thus, for example, Mark affords James and John their name "Boanerges", names them ahead of Andrew (and after only Simon-Peter), and names them frequently (more than any other gospel). John's gospel, and only John's gospel names Thomas frequently, affords him the name Didymus, and listed him after only Simon Peter. John's gospel lists the sons of Zebedee last, refers to them only the once, and does not even give their names. Thus, the prominence of a disciple (in the eyes of a writer) can be judged, not only by frequency of mention, but also by name order, and whether an honorific new name is mentioned explicitly (or implied by the meaning of the name, if Greek). This correlation extends beyond the gospels.Richard Fellowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06777460488456330838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-46765445412848540372023-06-13T10:24:37.535-04:002023-06-13T10:24:37.535-04:00Sadly, it looks like all of these links are now de...Sadly, it looks like all of these links are now dead. Archive.org is able to retrieve the site, though:<br /><br />http://www.willamette.edu/chora-strangers/index.php<br /><br />https://web.archive.org/web/20050218132617/http://www.willamette.edu/chora-strangers/articles.phpMark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-6624261464987127202023-06-13T10:18:16.874-04:002023-06-13T10:18:16.874-04:00Wonderful to see this collection of works primaril...Wonderful to see this collection of works primarily by Herman Waetjen. There is also a Festschrift honoring Waetjen that addresses many NT hermeneutical concerns: From Biblical Interpretation to Human Transformation: Reopening the Past to Actualize New Possibilities for the Future : Essays Honoring Herman C. Waetjen https://books.google.ca/books/about/From_Biblical_Interpretation_to_Human_Tr.html?id=OOglAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y<br /><br />Theohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13909770033048532307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-17370947439559695332023-04-11T11:23:17.150-04:002023-04-11T11:23:17.150-04:00John 21:25:
And there are also many other things w...John 21:25:<br />And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they were written one by one, I suppose that not even the world itself would contain the books written.<br /><br />We have all that we need!David C Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891468618584742601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-41009676512130725072022-12-24T05:41:30.372-05:002022-12-24T05:41:30.372-05:00Love that picture 🙏Love that picture 🙏Andreaisabel144@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00044656263776034995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-90756090812296041292022-08-15T22:00:40.481-04:002022-08-15T22:00:40.481-04:00How is Mark 40 yrs removed? Mark may have written ...How is Mark 40 yrs removed? Mark may have written 40 yrs after Jesus said those things. However, in my opinion, we have good enough evidence to suggest that Mark got his information from Peter. I don't believe Peter was 40 yrs removed?!? <br /><br />I'm pretty sure you disagree with me. However, there is written evidence for this and many scholars (if not the majority) believe this as well. <br /><br />I just think you like to live in the minority. Esp. with your Luke dating! :)dLogichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931631728109708587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-86509786330056035212022-08-04T09:59:09.683-04:002022-08-04T09:59:09.683-04:00Well sleuthed. I would agree with Jeff here. Other...Well sleuthed. I would agree with Jeff here. Otherwise the coincidence with (a) the precise figure of 3 weeks, AND (b) the fact that attention is drawn to its shortness, AND (c) the fact that no other writer is known to make a point about any particular brief 3 weeks of Jesus - this coincidence is just too great. In this sort of way we can make a rudimentary calculus of likelihoods.<br />Both were at Queen's Oxford so there may have been oral traditions about Streeter passed on to Nineham; also, Streeter and Nineham will have had common acquaintances (whether or not friends) such as RH Lightfoot and Farrer. Chris.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705573991627254450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-88683769326446674852022-06-29T13:20:12.455-04:002022-06-29T13:20:12.455-04:00This intrigues me. I ran some google searches and ...This intrigues me. I ran some google searches and sent it through some online plagiarism checkers and I too am not seeing anything earlier than Nineham in 1977. Only six years later, a similar but not identical statement is found in Benjamin Walker, Gnosticism: Its History and Influence (The Aquarian Press, 1983) p. 70, but without citation or attribution. In Walker's bibliography, he included two Streeter works, The Four Gospels (1924) and The Buddha and the Christ (1932), neither of which has this statement. Walker didn't include any mention of Dennis Nineham or John Hick in his bibliography.<br /><br />Interestingly, John Hick, who edited and contributed to the volume in which Nineham's statement appears, published The Fifth Dimension in 1999 and notes Nineham but not Streeter:<br /><br />"‘[The New Testament scholar] G.H. Streeter [sic] once calculated that, apart from the forty days and nights in the wilderness (of which we are told virtually nothing) everything reported to have been said or done by Jesus in all four gospels would have occupied only some three weeks, which leaves the overwhelmingly greater part of his life and deeds unrecorded’3 — and many more recent scholars would put the known time-span at considerably less than three weeks."<br />n.3 Nineham, 1977, pp. 188-9.<br />(John Hick, The Fifth Dimension, Oneworld, 1999, p. 174)<br /><br />Hick also doesn't note who are those "many more recent scholars" who "would put the known time-span at considerably less than three weeks."<br /><br />I'm thinking Nineham misunderstood the Streeter quote you cite. Both statements use the term "[un]recorded." I don't think Streeter is saying Mark's Passion Narrative (presumably Mk 14-16 or even 11-16) is 3 weeks. Streeter's wording is a bit convoluted, especially with the phrase "at the outside." I think Streeter was implying the journey and the end (Mk 10-16) is at the most (i.e., "at the outside") three weeks. And maybe Nineham misunderstood Streeter's remark "at the outside" to refer to the events outside/apart from the journey to the end (Mk 1:14-9:50), which couldn't possibly include the temptations (Mk 1:12-13) since 40 days is far more than 3 weeks. Streeter does go on to then mention that the total number of incidents in the rest of Mark is few which may have caused Nineham's misunderstanding. Just my two cents.Jeff Catehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07210032982797709183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-15607341802163999772022-06-25T11:14:28.135-04:002022-06-25T11:14:28.135-04:00The video has turned up on YouTube (2022) and is a...The video has turned up on YouTube (2022) and is a delightful look back to when we all lived in black-and-white. I arrived in 1978 and am delighted to see a number of faculty and staff I knew; Wally Buckingham, my rowing coach, was steward then and appears pouring wine at high table. The youngish tutor is John Creaser, who I think was wearing the same outfit eight years later when I came up.Waldo Lydecker's Journalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18046082913930451235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-85040821904432533682022-04-01T09:43:29.233-04:002022-04-01T09:43:29.233-04:00I, too, am trying to learn more about this video.
...I, too, am trying to learn more about this video.<br /><br />"Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices -- Old Video"<br /><br />Elsewhere titled: <br /><br />"Gospel of Thomas Prof Gilles Quispel Nag Hammadi earliest found new testament writtings"<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsjzcVJdZDo<br /><br />What seems clear is this:<br /><br />It is not one documentary, but rather, a selection of clips from two or more documentaries.<br /><br />Only a few clips are from the "Gnostics" documentary (UK Channel 4; Border TV)<br /><br />A sizable part of it is taken from another documentary:<br /><br />"The Gnostic Origins of Christianity"<br /><br />Another copy lists "featuring Tim Freke and Peter Gandy"<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbr9zJfBfw<br /><br />Credits at the end list: CTC Cresset Communications (2003)<br /><br />"Netherlands Coproduction Fund" is also listed in the credits.<br /><br />Unfortunately, some of the guests are not labeled in any way, there are no credits at the end of the video, and only a couple of the scholars are mentioned by name.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321240580380921163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-32530220492793007722022-02-09T02:39:54.605-05:002022-02-09T02:39:54.605-05:00Phil says, Regarding some people like Vinny who ar...<br />Phil says, Regarding some people like Vinny who are skeptical about Jesus' existence---<br />I am an engineer with BS and MS degrees and patents and I don't believe the universe exists as physicists claim with fake pictures of the galaxies. After all---these are just camera tricks to justify their atheistic thought system. I guess people like vinny believe everything he wants to believe. No? zeitgeist1833@gmail.comPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04221127876403004727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-19207513393766502542022-01-21T20:57:12.399-05:002022-01-21T20:57:12.399-05:00JESUS SAID: Birds have nests, but the son of man d...JESUS SAID: Birds have nests, but the son of man doesn't have a place to rest!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06674374549606113169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-53682062164285897132021-12-31T19:58:11.128-05:002021-12-31T19:58:11.128-05:00Hi Mark,
what a way for me to spend the early mom...Hi Mark, <br />what a way for me to spend the early moments of 2022!!<br /><br />In comparing your Greek with the English of PNF ix they start to differ at section 18 and thereafter you are a section ahead. I would not know which is right!!<br /><br />Anyway, have a great 2022 - hopefully better than 2021.<br /><br />Blessings<br />JaredJared Hayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10304990064394954229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-17302037468046330492021-12-31T09:34:32.372-05:002021-12-31T09:34:32.372-05:00Many thanks, Jared. I can't remember, I am afr...Many thanks, Jared. I can't remember, I am afraid! If you find out that it's an error on my part, by all means be back in touch. Mark Goodacrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-72952898788265917252021-12-29T11:37:31.276-05:002021-12-29T11:37:31.276-05:00Dear Mark,
thanks so much for making this Greek t...Dear Mark,<br /><br />thanks so much for making this Greek text of AoP available. I have a question about it compared to the numbering of that in the Ante-Nicene Fathers vol ix pp299ff. The section with the souls of the murdered crying out you number as 25, whereas in ANF it's 24. Are the two based on different editions?<br /><br />My own particular interest is in the somatic description of the two men who appear on the mountain (7-10), and it is so helpful to have easy access to the Greek text as well as the translation. Really appreciate it. <br /><br />All good wishes for progress with NIGTC!<br />Jared Hay (Edinburgh)Jared Hayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10304990064394954229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-77145660257800996072021-10-26T11:36:26.211-04:002021-10-26T11:36:26.211-04:00Thanks Randy for your "TypeGreek", truly...Thanks Randy for your "TypeGreek", truly useful in my spanish keyboard. jchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00178508720221021608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-32779085653862451442021-10-26T11:32:44.380-04:002021-10-26T11:32:44.380-04:00Michael,
Type Greek may be used with "Open O...Michael,<br /><br />Type Greek may be used with "Open Office" in a windows pc or a Word in Mac. jchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00178508720221021608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-90528720060825482692021-08-06T21:10:00.802-04:002021-08-06T21:10:00.802-04:00Just finished reading through the entire blog arch...Just finished reading through the entire blog archive. Thanks for some great bedtime reading, Mark! Hopefully it won't be too long before the blogging machine is kicked back into gear again.<br /><br />Katherine Jane Wright Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02758996838247322433noreply@blogger.com