Corpus-Paul

[Thomas P Roche <troche AT acsu.buffalo.edu>]

What do we need a 'reasonable alternative' for, sir?  The alternative is
that the texts are what they say that they are.  How hard is that?  I
repeat my objection to the singular criticism methodology employed against
the very much more well attested NT texts, as opposed to all other ancient
G-R texts.

I will be departing this list, which seems a haven for pseudo-scholarly
God=haters.


On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Jim West wrote:

> 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
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Jim West, ThD
> Petros Baptist Church- Pastor
> Quartz Hill School of Theology- Adjunct Prof. of Bible
> 
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