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My "Horizontal Synoptic Solution" thread is itself almost too difficult for comment, but petered out on the apparently uninteresting idea of John 21 as a source that was the original ending after Mark 16:1-8. Both of them are diversions from my main thesis of seven written eyewitness recor...

I clearly do not regard John 21 as a later appendix, unless it (like the Pericope of the Adulteress) happened to end up here instead of its original place in another gospel—not Luke for this case, but the lost final chapter (after 16:8) of Mark. If that implies that this Editor (John the Apostle) h...

I'm confused. Is Neil Godfrey hung up by the name "Luke", which is irrelevant. The point of the acceptance of Acts as historical (as by Harnack) and completed in 63 A. D. makes a neat feat to jibe with Josephus, whomever we name as author. Are you saying that around 130 A. D. someone who k...

It is interesting to read what Josephus writes about Poppea, the wife of Nero. She had a secret salon devoted to mysticism and the occult. In A.D. 63, Josephus probably attended more than one of their gatherings. Wow, 63 A. D. Josephus was in Rome, the same year Luke was there? And people here date...

Was this helpful in understanding the reason for the alignment to Hebrew over another language? I hope this was more helpful. :) Quite helpful if you can help settle a perpetual war going on here and among scholars. Can you compare your facility with Carmignac's construction of Greek from the Hebre...

J.V.M. Study [sic] recently came out with a book about the dating of the New Testament, albeit posthumously. TItled Redrawing the Boundaries . It may not gel with the ideas of anyone posting in this thread, but it does have some substantive arguments (as well as a bit of nose counting). Whoops, tha...

9. The use of 'anth oon' occurring only once in NT outside Special Luke' " (p. 185) "Anth Oon"? What word is that? Verse? alpha,nu,theta Omega,nu Edwards did not list locations, but presumably a search of those two consecutive words in Greek would find only one exemplar outside L in ...

Well then, no surprise I guess. MMS won't favor us with terminology, as "unknown narratives" (the closest I can get to parsing him) obviously can't serve because most of the material is SAYINGS, not narrative. He's bombarding us from out there in Mythicist-Land (not that there's anything w...

I guess I've cornered you into a definition, which for "primary sources" substitutes " 'primary sources' ". That is, you encase the same words within quotation marks.
Now we'll see what MMS will favor us with, maybe " 'primary' sources"?

Once again, MMS, What do you call them, if even the sources underlying the canonical gospels are not primary sources? But then, even Neil Godfrey won't hazard a new name for them, even though he likewise denies that they are primary sources. Wait, NG says, "the gospels are not primary sources f...