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Just a few leftovers from my notes on this topic.... It is probably worth pointing out that many or most of the literary forms common to the Jewish scriptural narratives are also found in the gospels. Matthew and Luke each offer a genealogy. The first two chapters of Luke have characters (Mary, Zech...

I wish to thank Neil Godfrey for a fruitful exchange on this topic a couple of months ago; he anticipated the direction I was leaning with virtually no prompting at all. For this post, I intend the term genre to indicate what kind of writing a text is as a whole; genre is a matter of locating other ...

Peter Kirby wrote:Thanks, Ben! Very handy.

No problem.

Luke 19 : 1 He entered and was passing through Jericho. 2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short. 4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him,...

Luke 13 : 1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, ...

Luke 7 : 1 After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. 2 A certain centurion’s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death. 3 When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant. 4 Whe...

Luke 1 : 1 Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, 2 even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, 3 it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things ...

This thread is intended as a study aid for myself and for anyone else interested in the Evangelion . On pages 47-62 of Towards a New Reconstruction of the Text of Marcion’s Gospel , Dieter T. Roth supplies three tables of Lucan verses: (A) a table of verses attested as present in the Marcionite gosp...

I hadn't thought of it like this, but I have had the privilege, like a ceolocanth, of being brought up in ancient ways of thinking, and think I can claim to "get" these confused ways of thinking where the gods and humans meet regularly. I used to meet the gods most Sundays in Pentecostal ...

It may be significant that the first epistle to Timothy both acknowledges the role of Pontius Pilate (6.13) and also simultaneously sheds some of the abovementioned Pauline and Petrine naïveté concerning rulers; 1 Timothy 2.1-2 NASB: 1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitio...