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While *Ev had contrasted the armed arrest with the opportunity of detaining Jesus in the temple without violence, Mark showed through the sword stroke that the squad's armament was appropriate after all . ( The Oldest Gospel and the Formation of the Canonical Gospels , p. 301, my bold) Nonsense. Th...

The Problem with the Synoptic Problem (Brent Nongbri) https://www.academia.edu/102692189/Manuscripts_The_Problem_with_the_Synoptic_Problem On the one hand, I like Brent's casual attitude when he makes the implicit suggestion: Literally, these gospels, whether canonical or non-canonical, are just st...

Marcion: (Trt/Ep/Ephrm): this is my beloved son Mark: this is my beloved son Matthew: this is my beloved son, with whom I am well-pleased Nestle-Aland Luke: this is my son, my chosen Many variants of Luke: this is my beloved son See a critical apparatus for the details. So, was *Ev “harmonized” wit...

This would need further clarification, anyway. Ben thought that canonical gMark had a predecessor text, mostly because of the duplications, like the whole Bethsaida section. A shorter version of gMark, not gLuke. That gMark predecessor would then, among others, lead to gMarcion and gMark, etc. His ...

Ken Olson wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 6:33 am I don't think it's particularly difficult to locate a likely source for that.

Luke 4.31:
Καὶ κατῆλθεν εἰς Καφαρναοὺμ πόλιν τῆς Γαλιλαίας
And he went down [descended] to Capernaum a city of Galilee.

But a few mysteries remain

Exactly, you only have to implement the idea in this source

. How the idea of a descent from above to Capernaum probably came about 1) GMark 6 shows that in his hometown Jesus is perceived as part of his family in a traditional way: "Sad that people can't go beyond the usual thought patterns". 1 He went away from there and came to his hometown, an...

Mark 6:3 Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary? οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τέκτων ὁ υἱὸς τῆς Μαρίας Luke 4:22 Isn’t this the son of Joseph? Οὐχὶ υἱός ἐστιν Ἰωσὴφ οὗτος Matt 13:55 Is this not the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary? οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τοῦ τέκτονος υἱός οὐχ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ λέγεται ...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:01 am Love to hear what people have to say. BTW "synagogue" is the term used in Irenaeus.

fish and ships

fwiw and iirc, some ancient Jews went to public bathhouses, at least according to rabbinic literature. Yeah. However, a bath house in Ephesus may be different from a bath house in Tiberias. It's not only about impurity in the Jewish sense and about moral questionability due to nudity and certain &q...

Irenaeus tells this story instead (A.H. 3.3.4): There are also those who heard from him [Polycarp] that John , the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within , rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, “ Let us flee, lest even the bath-house fal...