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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
- Replies: 6
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Re: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
I thought the "joke" was better known. That's why I didn't write it out it full, at first. Anyway, it's easily googleable. I brought it up in part as an example of his "humor," as I already said. One, could, if interested, see when it became well known. Post 1941, so revisionist,...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 144
Re: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
That was Morton Smith's joke, not mine.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:50 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 763
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
De gustibus non est disputandum,
though I am not the only one to notice that manufactured (in 1958 context) and Score later
comport with Morton's long-displayed sense of humor.
though I am not the only one to notice that manufactured (in 1958 context) and Score later
comport with Morton's long-displayed sense of humor.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 27
- Views: 604
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
JarekS, you have proposed that the NT, or most of it, was "content" produced by one source.
Could you further specify that proposed source?
When?
Where?
Why does is appear to many people, of various backgrounds, that there were differing views, not a unified one?
Could you further specify that proposed source?
When?
Where?
Why does is appear to many people, of various backgrounds, that there were differing views, not a unified one?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:48 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 763
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
Here's the full title of Smith's Harvard Theological Review article "CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND SECRET MARK: THE SCORE AT THE END OF THE FIRST DECADE." HTR 75:4 (1982) 449-61. In context, the word "Score" is an unusual, provocative, choice. As for "Manufactured in the United ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:30 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 144
Re: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
Well, Randy. Stephen here, not Stephan. If you had read the book, you would know that Smith did not go to vespers with his chaperone, who was not his buddy; he did not go at all in 1958, his disdain for it made abundantly clear. And that Smith didn't just get less religious but turned from exceeding...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 144
Was Morton Smith sometimes an unreliable narrator?
Here is one case, all from his 1973 book, The Secret Gospel. On page 6 MS recounted his 1941 visit to Mar Saba. He described the liturgy, which he attended, as "hypnotic." "I knew what was happening, but I relaxed and enjoyed it." (In what other context have heard that phrase?) O...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
- Replies: 27
- Views: 604
Re: Let's help biblical scholars - Paul's letters
Again, JarekS, you posit two groups, you/us versus "biblical scholars." And you did not answer any of my questions, above-- who, when, where, single source? I think it is fair to say that, in some sense, many here are, in some broad definition, "biblical scholars." Maybe some her...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 763
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
This, though, was not a published book.
If you read Smith's reviews, you may get a sense of his humor.
Or if you heard him in person, as I did.
Such as the time he remarked that an article had been misprinted,
because it lacked the word
"Amen."
If you read Smith's reviews, you may get a sense of his humor.
Or if you heard him in person, as I did.
Such as the time he remarked that an article had been misprinted,
because it lacked the word
"Amen."
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 763
Re: are these supposed to be sound arguments?
Morton Smith hand-wrote "Manuscript Material from the Monastery of Mar Saba, discovered, transcribed and translated by Morton Smith," dated 1958. It includes a Preface. On a preliminary page he wrote "Manufactured in the United States." This may bean example of his type of humor....