The Midwest Center for Theological Studies blog has some notes on the four gospels, which largely rely on Why Four Gospels?. (HT: The Voice of One Crying Out in Suburbia)
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Byadmin(Extracted from Dave Black Online, March 17, 2015. Used by permission.) 11:44 PM Just wanted to say hello before going to bed tonight. I spent a few days in the Dallas area over the weekend, primarily to attend a conference sponsored by Brite Divinity School and featuring Adela Yarbro Collins of Yale. Her topic was…
Dave Black at Shepherds Theological Seminary
Byhneufeld(We had a report on this from a member of the audience, linked earlier today.) 8:23 AM At the Shepherds Seminary last night I spoke on the origins of the four Gospels. And what a great time we had.
Dave Black on Textual Criticism
ByhneufeldDave Black has written a new essay on textual criticism. Here’s an extract: In textual criticism, one enters a discipline that is as much art as it is science, so that what is all too clear to one scholar may be opaque to another. My friend Dan Wallace — who, incidentally, also took Harry Sturz’s…
Pay Attention to Ancient Sources
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Implications of the Fourfold Gospel Hypothesis
Byadmin(From Dave Black Online. Used by permission.) 11:48 AM Hello bloggers, Sorry for posting so much about me of late. I think we all need a break from that, don’t you? So, to change the subject …. The journal New Testament Studies has kindly been allowing access to several of its essays for free. I…
On Historicity
Byhneufeld12:48 PM On historicity: Unlike the fantastic hypotheses thought up by exponents of Markan priority, which cannot be directly refuted because they are all located in the blank tunnel period, the Fourfold-Gospel Hypothesis respects and accepts the real life situation of the universal church in the years 30–67 and agrees with the known history of…