Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 11:25 PM 4/2/99 -0500, you wrote:

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>If this list really be for the serious academic study of the Pauline
>epistles, it would be well to employ the same standards of real historical
>analysis that other is always applied by serious historians to other
>ancient texts.
>
>Thomas Roche

Thomas,
Your very colorful prose does not serve to undo the Q hypothesis any more
than saying that Q does exist over and over again proves its existence.
What you offer, again in quite colorful and almost bewitching prose, is not
any sort of proof or counter evidence.  In short, you simply scream that Q
doesnt exist and imply that those who accept its existence don't quite
measure up to scholarly stature.

I would like to suggest that there have been a great number of excellent
scholars working for over a hundred years on the problem of Synoptic
relationships who have reached conclusions contrary to yours and who deserve
respect for their excellent work and not mere off the cuff dismissal.  So,
please, do offer your own theory of synoptic relationships (perhaps on
Synoptic list where the discussion more properly belongs).

Best,

and now back to your regularly scheduled Pauline programming,

Jim

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