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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The Church Fathers and Study of the Gospels
Byhneufeld5:50 AM I’m glad to see that the Gospel of Mark is being discussed on several blogs these days. The latest hubbub seems to have to do with something called Mark’s “community.” However, the elephant in the room, it seems to me, is the absence of any discussion of the church fathers. Of course, a…
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…
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8:10 AM Saw this today: One of the many curiosities in the study of the NT and earliest Christianity is the early history and fortunes of the Gospel of Mark (hereafter, GMark). On the one hand (assuming the dominant view of Mark’s priority), the GMark appears to have been very influential. It is widely thought…
The Longer Ending of Mark and Snake Handling
Byadmin11:36 AM Now this was a fun read: The awkward truth about snake-handling: it’s totally Biblical. It all depends on how you read Mark 16:9-20 — original or not? The commenter is correct when he says, “There are plenty of biblical inerrantists who correctly discern this long ending of Mark as extra-biblical, using basic textual…
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.
Publication of The Pericope of the Adulteress in Modern Research
ByadminFrom Dave Black Online: 1) I am pleased to announce that The Pericope of the Adulteress in Modern Research has been accepted for publication in T & T Clark’s Library of New Testament Studies series. You may recall that SEBTS hosted a major conference on this topic in April of 2014 . Well, the papers have now…