Sermon on the Mount Here are both versions of the beatitudes, side by side so that we can see for ourselves. Notice that Matthew’s version includes these five beatitudes which are absent from Luke’s version. And the beatitudes they share are still different, depending on which gospel you’re looking at. For instance, in Luke it’s…

Overview ** The remaining seven prophecies quoted by Matthew are fulfilled by people other than Jesus: ** Everyone knew that Jesus was from Naza reth, why didn’t they recognize that he thereby fulfilled the prophecy, “He will be called a Nazorean” (2:23)? In this strange case, the answer is simple: no such prophecy exists. In…

Against Matthean authorship: why would an eyewitness rely so heavily on the work of someone who was not an eyewitness? Matthew 9.9 is another thing. There is a lack of info on Matthew (especially if the author is supposed to be Matthew. 3/20 manuscripts only have their title attached. Original codex may have been untitled…

Papias’ descriptions of gospels of Mark and Matthew? 📜Eusebius of Caesarea’s Church History, book three, chapter 39. Eusebius’ work dates to the 4th century, so Papias’ original work, presumably titled Expositions of Oracles of the Lord, was available to Eusebius while he was writing his history and he copies down a portion of it and…

Mark is a polemic against Peter. It may have tried to reconcile its otherwise uncompromisingly negative perspective on Peter by positing that Mark was written by a Peter follower. This provides an explanation for the commonly cited** “internal evidence”** of a Peterine connection, such as the fact that Peter is the character other than Jesus…

Zeichmann gives some additional compelling arguments for post 70 CE gMark composition:It may raise suspicions that after first dismissing the relevance of Latinisms, I would now uphold Semiticisms as evidence of Markan provenance. While much about the languages of Palestine remains debated, there is little doubt that Aramaic and Hebrew were uncommon outside of the…

How to find dating (a) What kind of historical events are mentioned in the text and what is the latest historical event, the text narrates (= level of narration)? To what kinds of historical data as a historical context does the text refer (= synchronistic elements)? What kind of historical material (e. g., documents, literary…

Where gMark was written Galilee as the Gospel’s place of origin has been defended by, e.g., W. Marxsen, Der Evangelist Markus. Studien zur Redaktionsgeschichte des Evangeliums (FRLANT 67), Göttingen, 1956, esp. pp. 41, 89, and 146; idem, Einleitung in das Neue Testament. Eine Einführung in ihre Probleme, Gütersloh, 19784, p. 148; W.H. Kelber, The Kingdom…

Scholars who date Mark after the fall of the Jerusalem temple: 1. Burton Mack in A Myth of Innocence says “Southern Syria in the seventies would be about right for such an intellectual labor as the Gospel of Mark. Jesus’ apocalyptic instruction in Mark 13 is the important evidence for a post-70 CE date and…

According to Zeichmann 2017, Mark was written after August 29, 71 AD. Despite the fact that it is a recent article and hardly a “commonly used” argument, I read it all and found Zeichmann’s central arguments to be persuasive. His theory is based on what Jesus said about taxes in Mark 12:13–17. He argues that…