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My Comment in a BSA post titled Team Q Vs. Team Farrer was: In my opinion, to make the case Luke used Matthew and there was no single Q MS, Matthew would have had to had Mark and Matthew as he must have liked Mark’s order but not Matthew’s. So, he wove Matthew into Mark […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman’s Blog – Among the materials that we can say were found in Q are some of the most memorable passages of our Gospels, including the following (for the sake of simplicity, I’ll [Bart] give only the verse references in Luke; the list is not exhaustive): — The Preaching of John the Baptist […]
Continue ReadingAnd Then There Was Q, November 29, 2017 by Bart Ehrman From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com. 10/30/2024. Prompt – What are the pros and cons of the alleged Gospel of Q citing the scholars that support each position and the reasons why? The “Gospel of Q” (from “Quelle,” the German word for […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Provide a timeline of the various sects of Jewish Christianity citing the escape to Pella to avoid the Romans. Include the locations where it was practiced and key leaders. The history of Jewish Christianity is complex, involving various sects, leaders, and significant events, including the […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman’s post, Oral Traditions and the Dates of Our Gospels, October 23, 2024, provides extracts from the 8th edition of his textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament (Oxford University Press, 2024), Below are extracts from the post that provides basic reasons for the traditional dates of when the Gospels were […]
Continue ReadingJump to Sections not in this view Related Posts on this site: The book is named “Numbers” because the Septuagint titled it Arithmoi (“Numbers” or “Censuses”) after the censuses of the Israelites in chapters 1-4 and 26, a title that passed into Latin as Numeri and then into English, and that parallels the rabbinic name […]
Continue ReadingIn Lecture 6 of Bart’s Finding Moses course, he presented slides related to law codes believed to have been in circulation prior to writing the Pentateuch, notable kinds of laws, and other information. The audible file and the PowerPoint file of slides from that lecture are in the “Bart Ehrman Lg Files” directory of the […]
Continue ReadingA good paper on When Were the Gospels Written and How Can We Know? is posted on attorney Doston Jones‘ blog. It was recommended by Dr. James DeFrancisco on 9/17/2024 in a BSA “conversation”. The following list is talking points extracted from his paper with the bold emphasis added by me. This analysis discusses the earliest […]
Continue ReadingFrom a Post at BSA’s Bible Nerds Group by James DeFrancisco In view of the Q hypothesis as well as Mark not having birth stories for Jesus it is suspected that the birth stories may have been added to Matthew and Luke after the original (whatever that means) gospels were written. This is supported by […]
Continue ReadingThe text of the Ten Commandments was dynamic in ancient Israel and appears in three markedly distinct versions in the Bible:[1] at Exodus 20:2–17, Deuteronomy 5:6–21, and the “Ritual Decalogue” of Exodus 34:11–26. From Wikipedia. Note that each one is from a different source based on the JEPD view. For an in-depth presentation at the Torah.com go to The Origins of […]
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