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Hey, Ben C., great work. The Latin confirms all the differences found in the Greek, the "word of the Lord" (perhaps "way" to "word" so as not to confuse "way" in v.26), "concerning Jesus" (rather than "Lord") and "way" (not "...

Andrew, I was wondering what Bezae Latin indicates in the three areas of interest (way of the Lord/things concerning the Lord/way....). It might shed some light. I'm traveling at the moment and have no access to books except what I have on my phone, which includes a defective Bezae Greek--the phone ...

Spin, in my opinion the the κύριος (“Lord”) in Acts 18:25-26 is not God but the messiah. The "way of the Lord" is thoroughly Jewish (see Isaiah 40:3, Jer 5:5 and Eze 18:25). I can see no way for a Jew of the epoch (or any other epoch) to consider any other referent than the Jewish deity i...

I think you are reifying Jesus. My interest is the evolving text, which is something we can talk about--at least in the synoptic tradition.

How many people did Samson slay? Did he stop being a Nazirite from birth? Did Jesus lose the ability to "save his people from sin" by raising the dead? As I have pointed out, this is not a Nazirite vow : there is no vow to be completed. Acts of abstinence regard a vow, reaching a state of ...

Andrew, I think you may not be interpreting "the way of the Lord" correctly. The expression is paralleled in the following verse by "way of God". Apollos had been instructed in the way of the Lord/God, but Priscilla and Aquila had to explain it a bit more. The Lord in "the w...

1. The prophets: there are two types of prophets, the named prophets and what we refer to as the "former" prophets (Joshua to Kings), which includes among others Judges. No prophet can be named as a source, hence Mt's "the prophets". 2. "called a nazarene ": this is par...

I thought I'd dealt with most of the discourse in this thread variously in the past. Briefly, 1. the tsade is unaccountable. FC Burkitt did a survey of tsade transliterated as zeta over a 500 year period and found only ten exemplars, most of which were insignificant, with two exceptions: one an appa...

The Chiastic Structure seems to imply that a "Single Author" gave us the Book of Mark. Yet, as you wisely point out, there is great tension within the Text itself, a tension that does not easily resolve itself into "Single Author". I've never made any claim about a single author.

If you accept that the Marcan writer represents Jesus as having his home in Capernaum as per 2:1 and having an unnamed hometown (6:1) there are two distinct origins given for Jesus (and, though I don't, in you include Nazareth in 1:9 there are three). If the writer knew what Jesus hometown was, it w...