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To: angelo
I know I'm missing some people, so speak up and let me know who you are.

No converting going on over here. Makes me wonder what I'm doing here (my wife has been wondering for quite some time).

52 posted on 09/07/2001 1:07:28 AM PDT by the808bass
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To: pegleg
The authenticity of the shorter recension has now been acknowledged by both Catholic and Protestant scholars including Lightfoot, Harnack, Zahn and Funk.

I don't know much about Zahn or Lightfoot, but I would think Harnack's and Funk's methodologies would force them to the shorter version no matter what the case. One of the top rules of the Bib-Crits is the shorter the text, the more likely its original. Not the most objective standard, but at least they seem to be consistent.

Harnack is famous, among other things, rejecting major doctrines of Christianity such as the Virgin birth, the deity and pre-existence of Jesus, the Resurrection of the body, the possibility of miracles, the existence of demons, exorcism and Jesus as the promised Messiah. But, other than that, he's a good Proddie.

Funk is the founder of the Jesus Seminar. Next.

Lightfoot has good credentials (as far as I can see) and is quite the language expert.

Zahn - not Paula, I suppose. Not finding much in the way of Zahnian Biblical scholarship.

53 posted on 09/07/2001 1:19:11 AM PDT by the808bass
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To: the808bass
No converting going on over here. Makes me wonder what I'm doing here (my wife has been wondering for quite some time).

:o)

Maybe you need to let her post some. You'll get her hooked just like BigMack got Becky addicted. 'Course, then she'd hog all the computer time, and you'd never get to talk to us (anyone heard from BigMack lately?).

73 posted on 09/07/2001 6:14:06 AM PDT by malakhi
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