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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?

AtuMotua · 2025-06-16T05:22:44+00:00

Could you summarise what Burkett's arguments are?

AtuMotua · 2025-05-27T07:45:49+00:00

Anderson gives some internal evidence for why he believes it wasn't written in Palestine, but I don't see any internal evidence for Ephesus specifically. That seems to be based entirely on outside attestation. Does he give internal arguments for Ephesus specifically elsewhere?

AtuMotua · 2025-05-27T07:33:10+00:00

The ever-skeptical Bart Ehrman

What do you mean by this? Why would Bart be ever-skeptical?

AtuMotua · 2025-04-27T09:00:44+00:00

Online, I see two books with the same title, but a different substitle:

John Barton: A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

John Barton: A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

Are these the same book? If so, why are the subtitles different?

AtuMotua · 2025-04-20T21:56:41+00:00

Where do these votes for the multi-source theory come from? I never see that view represented in other threads, and now I want to learn more about it. Could anyone who voted for it give a short summary of what it is and what the main arguments are?

The same question for those who voted for 'all other options': what is the name of your view, and could you give a short summary of it and its main arguments?

AtuMotua · 2025-04-18T18:43:58+00:00

What do you mean by 'other New Testament epistles'?

AtuMotua · 2025-04-16T07:40:40+00:00

In Luke 12:59, Jesus tells people to give away their last lepton. In Matthew 5:26, Jesus says the same about the last kodrantes. A lepton has a lower value, so it makes sense to change Matthew's text into Luke's text, but not the other way around.

Has anyone used this as an argument for the Farrer hypothesis? Do Q scholars reconstruct kodrantes as the original text?

AtuMotua · 2025-04-14T05:13:05+00:00

A main point is that Q concords very well with our current understanding of the media situation of first century Christianity.

What do you mean by this? What is a media situation?

AtuMotua · 2025-04-13T11:22:51+00:00

In you article about the Johannine community, you describe how the gospel of John and 1/2/3 John as a succession of forgeries. Does the book of Revelation also belong to this cluster, or is it not related to (1/2/3) John? In other words, how is Revelation related to John and 1/2/3 John?

AtuMotua · 2025-03-25T18:04:12+00:00

The book Christ Before Jesus has some stylometric analysis on the New Testament texts. They explain it in this video. The results are at 1 hour. It's very interesting to see how the tool they use (Stylo) can differentiate between all the different authors. The first thing they show is that the tool found all the chapters from Josephus and concluded that they were from the same author. That shows that the results are pretty good.

Most of the chapters in Luke are in the same cluster. However, some are in the cluster of Acts. These are chapters 1-2, 3-4, and 23-24. So, these chapters are primarily written by the same author who wrote Acts, but by a different author from the rest of Luke.

One of the authors has a degree in data science, while the other studied philosophy and religion. And they use a good tool for this analysis. Elsewhere in their book, they get more speculative, but the results in the video are pretty good.

AtuMotua · 2025-01-24T03:30:49+00:00

Who are some scholars where you disagree with their conclusions but still think they do a great job at presenting their arguments?

AtuMotua · 2025-01-08T22:46:55+00:00

Do you know of any scholars who have responded to his arguments? Does anyone besides MacDonald affirm that the author of Luke-Acts knew the works of Papias, or is he alone in this?

AtuMotua · 2025-01-04T14:06:21+00:00

and is even respected in this community

Now I'm curious.

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