In case anyone cares...I'm back

[Chapel-Hill-Coug]

Hey all. This is probably the wrong forum, since it isn't religious, but I'm back. I gave myself a time-out from message boards for a while after being a little rude to someone on this board several weeks ago. Then my wife and I spent a week in Vegas. I can't remember what happened in Vegas because it all somehow stayed there. Go figure. After that, I've been continually busy adding a service to our business. I hope you all accomplished a lot while I was gone. So, what do I have to catch up on?

[Detroitdad]

Originally Posted by Chapel-Hill-Coug

Hey all. This is probably the wrong forum, since it isn't religious, but I'm back. I gave myself a time-out from message boards for a while after being a little rude to someone on this board several weeks ago. Then my wife and I spent a week in Vegas. I can't remember what happened in Vegas because it all somehow stayed there. Go figure. After that, I've been continually busy adding a service to our business. I hope you all accomplished a lot while I was gone. So, what do I have to catch up on?

Welcome back. You were missed. Don't take it badly if you are a little rude to someone, or they are rude to you. It happens all the time.

If you wonder what you missed go look at the religion section.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by Chapel-Hill-Coug

Hey all. This is probably the wrong forum, since it isn't religious, but I'm back. I gave myself a time-out from message boards for a while after being a little rude to someone on this board several weeks ago. Then my wife and I spent a week in Vegas. I can't remember what happened in Vegas because it all somehow stayed there. Go figure. After that, I've been continually busy adding a service to our business. I hope you all accomplished a lot while I was gone. So, what do I have to catch up on?

Welcome Back. Archaea and I were discussing, Mark Goodacre's, "Case Against Q" the other day. We were hoping for your input on that one:

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7533

[Chapel-Hill-Coug]

Originally Posted by pelagius

Welcome, Back. Archaea and I were discussing, Mark Goodacre's, "Case Against Q" the other day. We were hoping for your input on that one:

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7533

Ahh, yes, a very solid scholar. It is great to have a solid scholar doing work against Q. Now for a confession. I haven't read his book, but I met him and heard his big paper presentation of his book (well, at least his argument) at a conference in Atlanta a few years back, and heard his argument and a lengthy discussion about it in detail. He has a compelling case, especially from the point of view of parsimony, or IOW let's take a serious look at the simplest explanation. The problem is that I'm a text critic, and so some of the best arguments in his camp (ie. the "minor agreements" [geez, it's been a while, did I even get the term right?]) seem to me to be best explained by later scribal harmonizations of Luke to the VERY popular Matthew rather than Luke's actual literary dependence on Matthew. I'm also still working on the difficulty of the textual relation between the sermon on the Mount and the sermon on the plain. I find it hard to accept Mathean priority and Lucan dependence on Matthew in light of these difficult literary relationships. When he gets to this point, I think parsimonly is then kind of turned on its head and in some ways Q becomes easier to accept.

So to sum it up, I accept the four source hypothesis, including Q (though I would be quick to call Q a scholarly construct with a literary basis rather than call it a document) and put it in the 70-80% range in terms of probability, but I have a ton of respect for Goodacre.

[BarbaraGordon]

Very good to have you back, CHC.

[Archaea]

Don't forget our classics group.

[Chapel-Hill-Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Don't forget our classics group.

Wow, an actual classics forum. I'm impressed! Guess I'd better brush up on all things Greece and Rome. I've been living in Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian libraries (figuratively speaking of course) looking at papyrus and parchment for far too long. I've not done a whole lot with classics since undergrad.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by Chapel-Hill-Coug

Wow, an actual classics forum. I'm impressed! Guess I'd better brush up on all things Greece and Rome. I've been living in Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian libraries (figuratively speaking of course) looking at papyrus and parchment for far too long. I've not done a whole lot with classics since undergrad.

Coptic stuff?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Chapel-Hill-Coug

Wow, an actual classics forum. I'm impressed! Guess I'd better brush up on all things Greece and Rome. I've been living in Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian libraries (figuratively speaking of course) looking at papyrus and parchment for far too long. I've not done a whole lot with classics since undergrad.

We'll accept anything from those areas as well, although not entirely "classic" in a strict interpretational sense.

[Chapel-Hill-Coug]

Originally Posted by pelagius

Coptic stuff?

Well, yes, I did a year of coptic and can work through mss in coptic, but i was mostly referring to exant Greek mss of the NT, most of which are from Egypt.