Carrier and Crook debate

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Ulan
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Re: Carrier and Crook debate

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DCHindley wrote:Seems Goodacre was more upset that Crook gave equal weight to a reconstructed Q as he did to the three synoptic gospels, Gospel of Thomas, etc.
He spent quite a lot of time in the review on classroom usability. It's funny how some practical consideration like this can impose itself on a tool like a synopsis. It's basically the problem that you have only three base colors, and you can make lots of didactic points with using color mixing. This method breaks down if you use more than three columns (a synopsis including gJohn has the same problem). It's funny how a principally unrelated physics problem can get in your way of trying something new.

He didn't like the method of using one (and only one) English translation per Greek word (and providing a better translation in brackets) because of readability issues. He didn't like that things don't line up (no empty spaces for missing words).

It was basically a teacher's review who evaluates how the text works in the classroom - no more, no less.
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