Kata Markon

["Mark Goodacre" <M.S.Goodacre AT bham.ac.uk>]

On 16 Mar 2001, at 7:44, Rikki E. Watts wrote:

> However, I think we've been around this one before, if not on this
> list, at least on Xlist.  I'm not sure what you mean by aggadic
> midrash (I presume as opposed to halakah), but even Michael Goulder
> has had to retract his claim that the gospels are midrash.  See e.g.
> Alexander, P. S., "Midrash and the Gospels" in C. M. Tuckett, ed.,
> Synoptic Studies(Sheffield: JOST, 1984) 1-18. According to the
> specialists they are clearly not.

A point worth making, though in the interests of clarify I'd like to 
add that what Goulder has retracted is the *terminology* of 
"midrash" to describe the creative work of the evangelists (_Luke: 
A New Paradigm_ (JSNT, Sup 20; Sheffield: Sheffiedl Academic 
Press, 1989) and not the substance of the claim that they were 
engaged in extensive, creative embroidery drawing on their 
sources, the Scriptures, inference etc.

Mark
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