Corpus-Paul

["George Blaisdell" <maqhth AT hotmail.com>]

>From: Micheal Palmer 
>
>>Someone (I don't remember who) wrote:
>>
>>>Does Paul, in his writings [however included or sequenced], ever cite
>>>the gospels, or argue from them, or otherwise refer to them?  And if
>>>yes, where?
>>
>And at 5:11 PM -0500 4/1/99, Frank Glenn responded:
>>According to Helmut Koester (Ancient Christian                 
>>Gospels, pp. 52-55), here are
>>the likely quotations from Jesus by Paul. . . .

>It is important to note that Koester is talking                  >about 
quotations from *Jesus*, not quotations                        >from the 
Gospels. The original question asked
>whether Paul ever quoted the Gospels.  Since                         
>Paul's letters were written in
>the fifties (and perhaps the early sixties),                         
>they precede the writing of the Gospels                              
>(according to standard critical understandings                       
>of the dates of the Gospels), so if our                              
>understanding of when the Gospels were written is
>correct, then it was not possible for Paul to                        
>quote from the Gospels.

Thank-you Michael ~

I was the poster of the original question, which arose out of my 
ignorance of the sequencing of the writing of the books of the Bible, as 
opposed to the sequencing of the events that they refer to.

So can we place the times of the writings of Paul into the overall 
sequencing [by dates, however disputed]] of the times of the writings of 
the GNT?  

[The news that Paul is historically the FIRST writer of anything found 
in the GNT comes as quite a surprise to me!]  

Were the gospels then written with the Pauline Corpus clearly in view?

And what about the presumed "Q"?  Prior or post Paul?

Thanks again, and a blessed Good Friday and Easter to all...

George




George Blaisdell
Roslyn, WA

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