(c) Nothing you've said does anything to identify which gospel should be presupposed in this prior-gospel hypothesis. Do you have an additional argument to say that a prior gospel here could not, for example, be Matthew? Comparing Luke and Matthew as sources for Mark, we have the ten or so reasons ...
(a) If historicism is true (and let's assume here that it is - I have no such presuppositions in favor of mythicism), then we should suppose that there were stories told about Jesus, often described as an oral tradition. The historical existence of Jesus is a simple explanation of a pre-existing tr...
Please explain how Ben's thread presents "really clear arguments of Luke preceding Mark." Presumptions of reader knowledge in Mark. That reader knowledge is material in Luke's Gospel. Ockham says the simplest explanation is the best, Luke was being read by readers now reading Mark. Sure, ...
Alright so isn't it, to put it plainly, wrong not to mention the major premise of yours here, that Luke preceded Mark in time due to your "high view and early origins of ... Luke" and your "Theophilus proposal"? And thus wrong to refer to the argument as being made in Ben's thre...
Does "a high view and early origins of Mark and Luke" imply that Luke (ca. mid-60s) preceded Mark (later in the 60s or the next decade)? Because if you're also assuming that Luke preceded Mark already , before any considerations adduced by Ben Smith, that's a big difference. Hi Peter, I h...
We've seen this false claim before. Ben might believe in lost texts and extensive textual trajectories, as one poster wrote, and not make any definite connection from his analysis of Mark's usage of Luke. Ben could study a tiny detail (see Levi, Matthew, & Matthias ) and make hypotheses about i...
This thread by Ben C. Smith essentially proved that Luke preceded Mark Presumptions of reader knowledge in Mark. https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3818 And this thread builds on what Ben wrote: Mark's dependence on Luke - the end of Markan priority - plus support for the tradit...
Elias Avery Lowe has a section in his papers. Palaeographical papers, 1907-1965 (1972) The Unique Manuscript of Tacitus' Histories https://archive.org/details/palaeographicalp0001lowe/page/301/mode/1up Lowe also has papers on the Codex Sinaiticus that I hope to see at the Morgan Library in New York....