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This passage in Eusebius may be relevant to what Papias meant when he spoke of a "Hebrew" version of Matthew. Pantænus was one of these, and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had antici...

On page 28 of Casey's book. Casey denounces me for saying that Jews thought God had given them the 10 commandments and points to Matthew 19:7 where it is said that Moses commanded people to get a certificate of divorce. Is this guy for real? Is there anything about divorce in the 10 Commandments? W...

Compared with the stuff posted by bloggers everywhere in the internet, Maurice Casey should be worshipped as the saviour of human rationality Despite simply making up stuff? Such as my visits to Tyndale House, or Aramaic wax tablets nobody has ever seen or Timothy Freke's fundamentalist Christian p...

CASEY He was suffering from interference, as all bilinguals do, especially when they are translating. CARR So if we see interference, we know there is translation…. Perhaps Casey could learn a little bit about Bayes Theorem, and background probabilities. I’m glad Casey is not a doctor. His logic is...

Precedent, or lack thereof, is often used in historical Jesus discussions -- but only when it supports historicity. When someone says that the epistles of Paul give the impression of being fictitious letters attributed to a non-existent author, they're told that there's no precedent for that (even ...

In principle the use of Bayes' theorem could explain why, on the basis of Carrier's idiosyncratic presuppositions, it is plausible to doubt whether there was a historical Jesus. However it seems unlikely that this would lead many people to question a historical Jesus. (I am not certain that Carrier'...

To add to Neil's interpretation of the details, the overall story could simply have been intended to teach early Christians that the size of their contributions didn't matter since Jesus could turn whatever was given him into something great. An "every little bit counts" type of story. A ...

That's quite different from his first edition, then. I've ordered the book but till it arrives I wonder if you can tell me if he does not accept the case for any redaction of the Torah or other books being guided by lectionary interests. Does he argue against our ability to know if the Chronicler h...

Thanks for the reference. The book is available on Scribd . Morris's book actually addresses the lectionary theories, most particularly the triennial lectionary theory, before Goulder. He is primarily addressing Guilding's application of the triennial cycle to the Gospel of John. In Michael Goulder...

Does anyone know the reasons Goulder's lectionary theory of the Gospels was not widely accepted? What were the arguments against? In terms of our (limited) knowledge of the history of the use of the Gospels in worship it seems unlikely that the sort of lectionary suggested by Goulder could go back ...