I really had no idea what I was getting into when I grabbed John Dominic Crossan’s Who Killed Jesus? (1995) from the library shelf. I was looking for help with my recent blogging of the trials of Jesus, and expected some ‘sporting’ push-back from an historian like Crossan, whose minimalist approach to the New Testament writings I find irritating most [...]
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Crossan, the trials of Jesus, and religious violence
Posted in The Trials of Jesus, tagged anti-Semitism, hermeneutics, New Testament, Passion Narrative on May 1, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Luke, John, and the trials of Jesus (Part 3)
Posted in Historicity of John, The Trials of Jesus, tagged exegesis, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, Passion Narrative, Synoptic Gospels, synoptic problem on April 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here I want to place Luke and John in closer relation to Mark’s 20 verses on the period between the arrest and the trial before Pilate, and to changes in Mark introduced by the author of Matthew. To me it seems unusual that Mark has recounted everything he has heard about this night as if it happened at a single location. The confinement [...]
Luke, John, and the trial[s] of Jesus (Part 2)
Posted in Historicity of John, The Trials of Jesus, tagged exegesis, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, New Testament, Passion Narrative, synoptic problem on April 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My aim in this series is simply to demonstrate an example of how the Gospel of John can contribute to the solution of problems of historical detail in cases where the synoptics offer conflicting or confusing reports of events in the life of Jesus – in this case the events occurring after the arrest of Jesus and before he is brought [...]
Luke, John, and the trial[s] of Jesus
Posted in Historicity of John, The Trials of Jesus, tagged Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Jesus of History, New Testament, Passion Narrative, Schleiermacher, synoptic problem on April 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I have been looking on at Matthew D. Larsen’s blog as he analyzes the differences between the synoptic versions of the Jewish trial[s] of Jesus. Matt has made it pretty clear that Luke differs too much here to call this part of the story a ‘synoptic’ view of events. I think the synoptics fail here to [...]
John, Luke, and the Jewish trial[s] of Jesus
Posted in The Trials of Jesus, tagged Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, Mark Goodacre, New Testament, Passion Narrative, Schleiermacher, Synoptic Gospels on April 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Matthew D. Larsen is blogging a series “investigating the trial[s] of Jesus (or lack thereof) by means of a synoptic analysis of Luke 22.54–71, Mark 14.53–72, and Matthew 26.57–75.” From the looks of his stated goals, Larsen’s study will culminate in a summary of the Luke passion “especially in light of its Synoptic parallels.” I [...]
