Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 01:16 AM 4/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Very simply, let me clarify.  People here are regularly citing 'Q', often
>complete with chapter and verse citations, as though this document did in
>fact exist, when it manifestly is the construct of scholars.  NOw I
>realize that a small portion of biblical scholars working over a very
>small period of the history of the christian church, in accordance with
>thier 'higher critical' presuppostions and theories, have indeed
>postulated such a document, and spilled large quantities of ink and
>electrons defending it as though they had copious ancient documentary
>evidence to back up their speculations.  My point, further, should be
>clear-- I am a classicist/ ancient historian, and I have to say that it is
>manifestly true that NO other series of ancient Greco-Roman texts has been
>subjected to anything, anything, like the hypercritical dissections,
>deconstructions, and reinterpretations, as has the various New Testament
>books, all the while when it is also manifestly true that the number of
>ancient mss for the NT and parts thereof simply dwarfs, by several score
>times, the number of any such mss we possess for any other Greco-Roman
>texts, most of which are also far younger.  Indeed, people read these
>various texts without a thought to engaging in 'higher criticism' thereof,
>while waxing intellectual with their hc formulations of the NT texts, and
>denigrating those of us who do not hold to such flights of fancy.  Pooey.
>

and still none of this demonstrates a reasonable alternative...

best,

jim

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Jim West, ThD
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Quartz Hill School of Theology- Adjunct Prof. of Bible

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