Previous posts reviewing NV’s Writing With Scripture: How and Why the Gospel of Mark Used Scripture — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 1 Creating New Stories from Scripture — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 2 To What Shall We Compare the Gospels? — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 3 … Continue reading “The Message of the Feeding Miracles of Jesus — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 6”
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Previous installments: How and Why the Gospel of Mark Used Scripture — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 1 Creating New Stories from Scripture — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 2 To What Shall We Compare the Gospels? — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 3 Nathanael Vette (NV) is demonstrating … Continue reading “Creating Pseudo-History (and Comedy) from Scripture — a review of Writing with Scripture, part 4”
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160 4. Die Compilation des Matthäus. 4. The Compilation of Matthew. 160 Schon die Stellung, die Matthäus der Bergpredigt gegeben hat, ist höchst unglücklich: — Jesus hält sie viel zu früh und sie protestirt selbst gegen die Voraussetzung, daß sie einer seiner ersten Lehrvorträge gewesen sey. Jesus preist diejenigen selig, die (C. 5, 11) ״um … Continue reading “Ch 4 – Compilation of Matthew”
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Reviewing The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel by Helen K. Bond. (In which I finally get around to reading Bond’s The First Biography of Jesus.) After the initial trickle of “Gospels Are Biographies!” books, we might have expected a flood of works exploring the implications of such a designation. After all, when … Continue reading “Mark: The First Biography of Jesus? (Part 1)”
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269 2. Die Kindheitsgeschichte des Lukas. 2. The childhood story of Luke. 269 Wenn die Menschheit einmal durch ein neues Pn’ncip ausgerüttelt ist und ihren Gewohnheiten sowohl wie dem Schatz ihrer ueberlieferungen Gefahr droht, tritt immer der Gegenschlag des Alten gegen das Neue ein und haben sich sehr bald die Satzungen und ueberlieferungen, die durch … Continue reading “Bk 2. Birth and Childhood. Ch 2 – Childhood Story of Luke”
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continuing the series of Charbonnel: Jesus Christ sublime figure de papier Eucharist: Body and Blood of the People We read about Jesus, on the eve of his death, as the eucharist or Last Supper meal, or as the ideal end-time sacrifice, that is, the sacrifice that effects not only forgiveness of sins but the communion … Continue reading “Jesus’ Death as the Death of the People of God: Communion and Passion”
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Recent posts have focussed heavily on “midrashic writing” techniques in the Gospels. Here is a passage from one of Maurice Mergui’s books on Jewish and New Testament midrashic writing. It is a principally a Google translation with my edits. It gives just a little taste of how it works. Midrashic Writing Workshop To better understand … Continue reading “Midrashic Writing Workshop”
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Since recent posts have in some way drawn me into the question of the historicity of Jesus once again let me set out where I stand. There is nothing new here. I have never, as far as I recall, set out an argument that Jesus did not exist. The reason? I have no interest in … Continue reading “Interlude: Why I Doubt the Historical Existence of Jesus”
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Here I bring together different scholarly views on the sources cited in the Old Testament books of Kings directing readers to other writings for further information about a particular monarch. I conclude with a new perspective on one of those sources (the chronicles or annals of the kings of Judah) that would actually subvert the … Continue reading “Those Sources the Bible Cites”
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Earlier posts in this series: 25th August 2020 and 27th August 2020. Thomas Thompson . . . is a pioneer in questioning more or less weak historical reconstructions done by Old Testament scholars, reconstructions that were mainly based on biblical texts and only sometimes supported by a few arbitrarily selected extra-biblical data. I still remember … Continue reading “part 3 … Biblical Narratives, Archaeology, Historicity – Essays in Honour of Thomas L. Thompson”
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The first part of this review is at https://vridar.org/2020/08/25/biblical-narratives-archaeology-historicity-essays-in-honour-of-thomas-l-thompson/ . . . Continuing the section Part 2. History, Historiography and Archaeology . . . Jesper Høgenhaven’s chapter explores evidence in the Qumran texts for how Second Temple Judeans thought about the Biblical writings. We can be puzzled by the way biblical passages were joined to … Continue reading “continuing … Biblical Narratives, Archaeology, Historicity – Essays in Honour of Thomas L. Thompson”
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This post questions the authenticity of the section in Paul’s writings where we read that “rulers of this age” crucified “the Lord of glory” followed by a passage said to be a citation of Scripture but that appears only elsewhere in the Ascension of Isaiah. The arguments for interpolation are derived from William O. Walker … Continue reading ““Rulers of this Age” as part of an Interpolation into 1 Corinthians”
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“Perhaps it is the very simplicity of the thing which puts you at fault,” said my friend. “What nonsense you do talk!” replied the Prefect, laughing heartily. “Perhaps the mystery is a little too plain,” said Dupin. “Oh, good heavens! who ever heard of such an idea?” “A little too self-evident.” “Ha! ha! ha—ha! ha! … Continue reading “Jesus Christ, Sublime Literary Creation of the Human Spirit”
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Last year I posted my understanding of Part 1 of the French publication, Jésus-Christ, sublime figure de papier. See Charbonnel: Jesus Christ sublime figure de papier for the ten posts covering that introductory section of Nanine Charbonnel’s book. Anyone who read through those posts would have realized that they were preparatory for what they expected … Continue reading “Jesus Christ as a sublime paper persona”
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