Continuing …… Peter Kirby focussed on the following point in his article arguing for the authenticity of the John the Baptist passage in Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus: (14) The Word for “Baptism” in the Passage Uncharacteristic of Christian Usage Kirby cited the scholar Robert Webb who pointed out that the words for “baptism” … Continue reading “Where does John the Baptist fit in History? — The Evidence of Josephus, Pt 5”
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Continuing…. (3) The Passage’s Reference to God’s Punishment of Herod Peter Kirby asserts that contradictory viewpoints in Josephus are no reason to suspect the involvement of an alien hand somewhere in the transmission of our manuscripts. He quotes my (somewhat facile) paraphrase of Zindler’s point: Neil Godfrey notes another one of the reasons that Zindler … Continue reading “Where does John the Baptist fit in History? — The Evidence of Josephus, Pt 4”
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Continuing…. Above all else, it is the early Jewish-Christian volume of the Pseudo-Clementine writings that provides the most striking parallel to Johannine baptism [in Antiquities of the Jews] In this post I begin by addressing Peter Kirby’s final argument against Rivka Nir’s case for the John the Baptist passage in Josephus’s Antiquities being an interpolation. … Continue reading “Where does John the Baptist fit in History? — The Evidence of Josephus, Pt 3”
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Continuing to respond to The Authenticity of John the Baptist in Josephus. The previous two posts — 1. Where does John the Baptist fit in History? (Or, the Place of Fact and Opinion in History) 2. Where does John the Baptist fit in History? — The Evidence of Josephus, Pt 1 I would like to … Continue reading “Where does John the Baptist fit in History? — The Evidence of Josephus, Pt 2”
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Continuing from Where does John the Baptist fit in History? . . . . Peter Kirby’s first argument for the authenticity of the John the Baptist passage in Antiquities of Josephus is (1) The Textual Witness Itself All manuscripts contain the passage and Kirby goes one step further and states as a fact: It is … Continue reading “Where does John the Baptist fit in History? — The Evidence of Josephus, Pt 1”
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Following on from the “playful discourse” around the Gospel of Mark’s confusion of identities in the Passion narrative — Curiosity One: Mark 1:1 A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — Good news? Yet the gospel concludes with the women who hear from a young man in the tomb that … Continue reading “More Ambiguities in the Gospel of Mark – and How to Account for Them”
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Theological Explanation of the Gospels Die theologische Erklärung der Evangelien by Bruno Bauer 1852 II. Strauss’ tradition hypothesis. Topic headings in the text below are my additions to Bauer’s text. 68 The proposition that language is the man and the word is the thing remains valid even when the language of a point of view … Continue reading “BRUNO BAUER: Theological Explanation of the Gospels – II. Strauss’s tradition hypothesis”
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Theological Explanation of the Gospels Die theologische Erklärung der Evangelien by Bruno Bauer 1852 I. The theological explanation of the fourth Gospel. 45 For the German Protestant Church, the Johannine age of disintegration and instability began, if we leave Fichte’s declamations to the past as a prophecy of this completion of the indeterminacy that … Continue reading “BRUNO BAUER: Theological Explanation of the Gospels – I. The theological explanation of the fourth Gospel”
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Critique of the Gospel of John by Bruno Bauer —o0o— 265 § 12. Echo of the dispute about the first Sabbath violation. Ch 7. ————— 1) The time of the Lord. 7:1-9. The last time Jesus withdrew from Judea to Galilee, the evangelist, contrary to his custom, omitted to state the reason for this withdrawal. … Continue reading “§ 12. Echo of the dispute about the first Sabbath violation”
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42 3. The Conversion of Paul. The differences between the author’s own account and the portrayal that Paul himself gives of his conversion before the people and later before King Agrippa will never be of practical service to those who wish to use them *) to eliminate some gaudy features and to move the event … Continue reading “3. The Conversion of Paul”
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Critique of the Gospel of John by Bruno Bauer —o0o— 10 §. 2. The circle of expectation 1:19-52 1) The mission of the priests to “the” Baptist. 1:19-28 If it is detrimental to a report and must make us cautious about it from the outset if it betrays an agenda, we have every reason … Continue reading “§ 2. The circle of expectation (John 1:19-52)”
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2. How Miracles Help When the author had transformed the religious theologian into a sorcerer, he was also compelled to boast of the man who (1 Cor. 15:30) was hourly in danger and whose sufferings and “incessant” afflictions gave him the right to boast of himself that (2 Cor. 4:10) he was carrying the dying … Continue reading “2. How Miracles Help”
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1. The Miracle Workers If only one question were asked, how the author of the Acts of the Apostles comes to portray the apostle, who only defeated his opponents with the force of his religious dialectic, as a magician, the man who led his historical work through sufferings, struggles and temptations, as a miracle-worker, who … Continue reading “1. Miracle Workers”
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With the assistance of machine translation tools I have been making some of Bruno Bauer’s key works on New Testament criticism available in English. This page links to BB’s chapters on his Criticism of the Gospel of John, published in 1840. I will continue to add more chapters as (a) attempt to proof-read translations for … Continue reading “BRUNO BAUER: Critique of the Gospel of John – English translation”
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