Finished reconstructions and tagging of Early Luke / Gospel of Marcion through most of chapter 9. I’ve also improved numerous prior passages by breaking out more of Late Mark (Mk2, 140s CE) and Late Matthew (Mt2, 140s CE), as well as splitting up the Johannine strata (e.g., Jn1, 100-110; Jn2, 110-117). This scientific signals synthesis and triangulation method actually works! My fresh analysis is confirming much of what Vinzent, Klinghardt, Knox, Tyson and others have found about the Gospel of Marcion and its relationship to the synoptic Gospels.
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Edited and Collected Sermons of St. John Chrysostom
Just continuing to spitball. I’m in the flow today.
Just saying, that collection would be the most amazing collaboration of Humanist Scholars, Digital Humanists, Christian Pastors, and the Eastern Orthodox Communities.
Read More »Letter to Rowman and Littlefield and Fortress Press on Behalf of Dennis MacDonald’s Scholarship
Thought I might as well self-publish this as well. I’m happy for publishers to know exactly what I’m up to.
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A Scientifically Sound Solution for the Synoptic Problem: Not Flowcharts but Cascades
Most modeling of proposed solutions to the Synoptic Problem looks like so many modest flow charts, with anywhere from a few to a dozen boxes and lines drawn between them.
Life is not a flow chart.
Read More »A Scientific Solution for Q, the Synoptic Problem, and the Textual Origins of the Jesus Memory Tradition Discovered
It’s going to take some time for the scholarly community to review my five hypotheses and the related evidence I’ve compiled, which will be released publicly on Zenodo later today or tomorrow.
Read More »CANT 78.3, Hospitality and Perfume of the Bandit: Critical Edition in Progress
Always enjoyable to come back to paleography. Today’s task is to finish my critical edition of CANT 78.3, The Hospitality and Perfume of the Bandit, based on a collation of texts found in two manuscripts, Vatican Library Lat. 6300 and British Library Harley 3199. The story is likely 13th or 14th century, one among several medieval variations of the Good Thief’s hospitality to the Holy Family during their sojourn to Egypt.
This story is unique in that it ties the miraculous perfume the Good Thief receives from Jesus’ mother Mary to the alabaster-carried perfume that Mary Magdalene used to anoint the feet of Jesus.
Read More »Self-Archived Open Access Publications Uploaded and ORCID Updated
After obtaining or checking for permission with my publishers, I’ve uploaded open access versions of many of my recent publications. All of these self-archived publications now have DOIs and are linked in my ORCID record. This was also a good reminder to update my ORCID record more generally, so I added all of my missing presentations and service work. I’m almost up to 100 academic works!
Read More »Regensburg Conference on the Prehistory of the Byzantine Liturgical Year
In early July 2018 the University of Regensburg is hosting a conference on the Prehistory of the Byzantine Liturgy, and I was delighted to have my presentation accepted.
Read More »RLST 201: Week 6-14 Highlights
Where has time flown? The last week of the semester is upon us. During the last half of the semester, I participated more in specific discussion threads instead of giving the bird’s eye view that I had during the first part of the semester. Given that, I thought a selection of highlights from my posts would be useful to share.
Read More »RLST 201: Week 5 Discussion Summary
There were many rich insights this week, which made it difficult to know where to focus my summary reflections. If time were not so limited, I would enjoy following up with pages of reflection on any of the following:
- The patriarchal and patrilineal bias in the Lukan genealogy, and what the virgin birth of Jesus could have meant in terms of his membership in humanity.
- The baptismal practices of the Essenes (Dead Sea Sectarians), how John the Baptist is reminiscent of the Essenes, as is Jesus in his desert sojourn.
- The connections between Aesop’s stories and Jesus’ temptation.
