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- Sat Apr 20, 2019 8:55 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How did Matthew and Luke get the name of Joseph of Nazareth?
- Replies: 38
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Re: How did Matthew and Luke get the name of Joseph of Nazareth?
Luke's narrative was not part of Marcion's Gospel and was probably a later addition. The Lucan redactor probably just took the name from Matthew's Nativity. Where Matthew got it, who knows? Messiah ben Joseph, maybe
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 4:47 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Thomas L Brodie on Ehrman's 'Did Jesus Exist?'and oral traditions
- Replies: 53
- Views: 63353
Re: Thomas L Brodie on Ehrman's 'Did Jesus Exist?'and oral traditions
I wish I could get his book on Kindle. I'm glad he's calling out supposed underlying "oral tradition" for the wishful thinking that it really is.
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:29 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
- Replies: 32
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Re: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
Why does Luke change the anointing from the head to the feet? Is Luke uncomfortable with the anointing of the head because of its latently subversive political/regnal implications? Is he uncomfortable with a woman doing the anointing? Why does Luke alone ignore the issue of the expense of the oil a...
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:23 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
- Replies: 32
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Re: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
I have a theory. On his first visit to the big smoke, Jesus went to a prossie for a 'massage' and the gospel writers covered up this embarrassing incident by making it all symbolic. I look at it as "repurposing" a story that Jesus had allowed a woman to anoint his head. That story could h...
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:15 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 37215
Re: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
Diogenes, what do you suppose? I honestly can't come up with a conclusion that I would bet money on, but my first intuition has always been that it remembers some kind of genuine historical spat that is now being apologized for, This assumes historicity for Jesus, of course, but my hypothesis is th...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:23 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 37215
Re: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
So you believe that whole thing about "feet" being code for something else?Paul the Uncertain wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 3:16 am
That's just John. And if my gaydar is at all calibrated, Mary B. is wasting her time with John's Jesus.
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:11 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 37215
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:40 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 37215
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Some questions about the Bethany/Anointing narratives in the Gospels.
I've been puzzling over these narratives for a while and have some questions. I'll just quote them all first. Mark 14:3-9 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 3:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Empty Tomb in Mark's gospel not written by original author
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21506
Re: Empty Tomb in Mark's gospel not written by original auth
problem revisited :mrgreen: problem Mark 15.42 "And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, ..." "Καὶ ἤδη ὀψίας γενομένης, ἐπεὶ ἦν παρασκευὴ ὅ ἐστιν προσάββατον, ..." question : Is the burial of Jesus on the day of the cru...
- Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:35 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Dating Paul's Conversion c.36 C.E.
- Replies: 222
- Views: 152185
Re: Dating Paul's Conversion c.36 C.E.
Aretas could not have had jurisdiction over Damascus before 37, if indeed he ever had it all.
Where did Paul get any authority to bust anybody in Damascus, regardless of who controlled it?
Where did Paul get any authority to bust anybody in Damascus, regardless of who controlled it?