Indeed- in the NT story of the healing of the man in the house- his friends dig a hole in the roof in one account and they remove the tiles in the other- evidence that the gospel writers adapted the story to the circumstances to their hearers.
HH: It could be two ways of telling the same story. You can dig a hole in the roof by removing the tiles.
I agree completely with the first sentence. The second, I dont. One normally doesn't dig through tiles. Your solution is conflationary. Yet the gospel writers themselves never offer such a conflation (for neither account combines the digging and the tiles).
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