Charles Savelle Review
… is available at BibleX.
On Q and Mark
From Dave Black Online: 7:35 AM Over at the Alpha and Omega Blog, Jamin Hubner’s essay on “Q” is well worth your time. His conclusions?
Mark Presents Peter
7:47 AM Mark as the interpres of Peter: Indeed, it is the modern critics, blinded by their conviction of the priority of Mark, who have failed to accept the obvious message of the patristic evidence. That is why they have misunderstood the significance of the texts that always describe the disciple Mark as the go-between…
Mark as an Enabling Document
6:57 PM Mark as an enabling document: Matthew is the fundamental Gospel and the most important, but each was written and published in response to a particular need of the church in a particular historical situation. The real significance of Mark lies in Peter’s guarantee that Luke was fit to be read beside Matthew in…
Andy Bowden Review
An extract from the review: Black’s skill as a writer shines in this book: he successfully puts the pieces together in what many have considered an unsovable jig-saw puzzle. Black demonstrates that the solution need not be complicated by far-fetched hypothecating of fanciful theories about lost sources. He accomplishes this in a straightforward, clear manner…
The Impact of the Gospels
Read notes by Dave Black at The Jesus Paradigm.
On Historicity
12:48 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…
James A. Lee
James A. Lee at Deliver Detroit reviews Why Four Gospels? A sample: With the prevalence of evangelical dismissal of anything common to the 1st century or pre-reformation thought concerning the order and historicity of Church life, or documents, this book comes as a challenge to the dismissal of Patristic witness concerning the chronological order of…
On Dispensing with Q
10:41 AM On dispensing with “Q”: One problem that arises is that of the existence of Q. We cannot confront this issue here, for the complexity of such a task would be significant enough to warrant a book of its own. However, as we have seen, the Fourfold-Gospel Hypothesis permits us to dispose with Q…
Dave Black at Shepherds Theological Seminary
(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.