Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Well just to change the subject - mostly because you apparently didn't find my addition of the word 'career' in my last post as funny as I did - don't you find it odd that the Ascension only appears in Acts? I think it's very surprising. You'd expect to have THAT BEGINNING of Acts as the end of the...

Notable about the "John the Baptizer" pericopes in the Synoptics is that the so-called Q sections for THESE VERSES ONLY tend to be word-for-word identical. In contrast "Q" sections tend to be so loose they must trace back to a common Aramaic text, and others are fairly close, bes...

On the one hand, Winn, You say Wallace says, "the pastorals are regarded as forgeries", showing that you have read Cold Case Christianity, but you conclude saying "I am kind of puzzled why the church father would attribute the books to Mark and Luke." In the book Wallace quotes P...

Yes, apparently so. Glad to hear from you, and to find that you are not as uncritical as I had thought. That makes the following easier. Yes, yesterday I received Cold Case Christianity, 2013, a clever and helpful book to read. However the courtroom scene in the movie is not played out in the book a...

Yes, "Neither God nor Man" is in the title. I have no idea what I meant by: "at Earl Doherty as if a real person", but I was aiming to say that the review presented Doherty as at least respectable enough to have written a book, as compared to Godfrey and Carr as below the pale, m...

Now it begins. And begins badly. After skipping over 80 pages of Criminology 101, J. Warner Wallace ("Jim", not to be confused with the liberal Christian "evangelical" Jim Wallis of Sojourners) turns to the Bible with all the "wrong" name-dropping for supposed eyewitnes...

Maurice Casey came out before his death with Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths (London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014 [aside to Ben Smith--in my notes it reads "204]) xi, 272 Paper $34.95. This is his notorious work that aims primarily at Earl Doherty as if a real person and ev...

Priced per page it's not so bad, just $250 for 723 (+xii) pages, and Coptic and Greek besides, no doubt. It's Simon Gathercole's The Gospel of Thomas. "Second century Greek original (p. 23)" not based on interpolations. Well-known conservative, he believes, but does not argue, that GoT is ...

Excellent headachy copyist skills, Ben. Thank you. Here's what I actually transcribed into my notes: "Jn. 9:22 12:42 16:2" fatally omitting the commas in my haste there at the library.

Thanks for the supplementation.
I'll look next Sunday when I'm in Republic of Davis (UCD) to look for those mysterious numbers--I thought I had simply transcribed them (John 922124316Z) in my notes.