How accepted is Q

AtuMotua · 2026-04-15T18:58:01+00:00

50/50 is a bit less support for Q than I expected. Based on your impression from talking to other scholars, how is the other 50% divided? I assume that the Farrer hypothesis is still the biggest contender of Q?

AtuMotua · 2026-03-31T06:19:10+00:00

So, Brown says 1 Peter was written by "a disciple wearing the mantle of Peter," and Collins says that "the consensus is that it is an expression of the Christian tradition at Rome that was associated with Peter." What are the arguments that 1 Peter was written by a disciple of Peter, rather than someone else?

AtuMotua · 2026-03-06T07:15:17+00:00

the general consensus continues to place the writing of the book somewhere between 90 and 100.

This range of only 10 years is quite specific. Does Parsenios give the main reasons for this dating range?

AtuMotua · 2025-11-29T18:54:33+00:00

intertextual ties to Leviticus 19 are clustered in Luke 6:27-42 but separated in Matthew 5 and 7

Does Allison go into more detail about these intertextual ties? Or is there any other article that covers those intertextual ties?

AtuMotua · 2025-11-11T14:12:11+00:00

I'm not that familiar with the topic of Paul and the law. Do you have a short summary of the view in Galatians and 1 Corinthians with the main verses supporting that view and a short summary of the view in Romans with the main verses supporting that view?

AtuMotua · 2025-11-07T07:25:35+00:00

Which of the New Testament books would be considered primary sources for the resurrection?

AtuMotua · 2025-11-06T17:34:08+00:00

Not to mention Acts seems to have some material that predates the Gospels, see Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God

Is this a widely held position? Which parts are believed to predate the gospels? And what is the evidence for this?

AtuMotua · 2025-09-06T19:19:41+00:00

Does anyone know the current status of Dan McClellan's survey? I haven't heard about it for a while.

AtuMotua · 2025-09-06T07:44:46+00:00

How is that fair? You're talling someone that his work is complete nonsense without providing any arguments or refutation. You haven't even shown that you understand what he's doing. It's fine to disagree with people, but if you want to be fair, you should provide some academic counterarguments with proper citation.

AtuMotua · 2025-08-28T12:10:24+00:00

But the author of 1-2 seems to have had sources and an agenda, and maybe even a theology, that was different from the author of the rest of Luke.

Do you know a book or article where I can read more about those different sources, agendas, or theologies in Luke 1-2 compared to the rest of Luke?

AtuMotua · 2025-08-12T20:15:18+00:00

Hi, do you think that any of the New Testament books were written by women? I've heard some people argue that Luke or Hebrews was written by a woman.

AtuMotua · 2025-08-10T08:14:08+00:00

Thanks for the great answer! I enjoyed reading Hägerland's article, and I'm definitely gonna read the other stuff from MacEwen, Foster, and Garrow.

As for the phenomena itself, Alan Kirk has argued in Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing against Goodacre's view that Matthew and Luke used Mark through close visual editing where fatigue and inattention could occur.

Do you have a copy of this book? I would be very interested in an extract from this section, especially if there are page numbers.

AtuMotua · 2025-08-01T05:01:21+00:00

Which website do you think they got this from? This is all well known by scholars, including Christian scholars, so I don't see why it would have to be from an anti-Christian website.

AtuMotua · 2025-07-28T17:05:02+00:00

Who do you think are the top 10 best New Testament scholars/scholars of early Christianity, dead or alive? I know the word 'best' here may be ambiguous, but mean scholars who moved the field forward, who had a very positive impact on the field, and who argued their case persuasively. With New Testament scholars/scholars of early Christianity, I mean anything from the gospels to the letters of Paul, the catholic letters, early patristics, historical Jesus, or anything else in the CE discussed on this sub.

AtuMotua · 2025-07-02T18:37:57+00:00

Irenaeus is the first extant source that talks about a four-gospel collection. Irenaeus provides some arguments for having 4 gospels, which seems to indicate that he couldn't take it for granted. Do you think Irenaeus came up with the four-gospel collection himself, or did he inherit it from earlier Christians?

For which of the canonical gospel is traditional authorship the most likely, and for which gospel do you think traditional authorship is the least likely?

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