SMC330Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Marcan Priority, Pseudepigrapha, Historical Method
21 Nov 2012
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Dead sea scrolls and pseudepigrapha as jewish tracts using language of symbol and myth to stake positions in wordly political history. History is matter of looking through spectacles need to be aware own spectacles distort picture. Bring together worlds of history and faith, recognize others did too including 1e jews. History lusts after evidence use available materials and covet more. Collecting of oral traditions into literary sources. Collecting and editing literary sources into polished gospels. Theres are dozens of different proposals of how to analyze forms of early tradition. Minority hold mthw written first and used by both mark and lk, so. Q never exist, several agree with majority on marcan priority agree with minority that overlap bwn non-mark passages in mthw and. Luke better explained by luke"s use of mthw than by common source. Mutually incompatible theories about why, where, when synoptics came to final form, no agreement. No agreement of how tradition dev in major stages.
