A theologian tries to reconcile a contradiction but can't see the forest for the trees.
Do the Matthean and Lukan Birth Narratives Contradict? One Attempt at Reconciliation (and Why It Misses the Point)
L. Michael White: Dating Luke-Acts
L. Michael White, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite (HarperOne, 2010), 335. There are also problems of dating in the light of current theories of Gospel relations, since the Gospel of Luke must be later than both Mark and Matthew, and thus no earlier than 80-85 CE. An earlier generation of scholars argued that Luke-Acts might... Continue Reading →
L. Michael White: Dating the Gospel of Mark
L. Michael White, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite (HarperOne, 2010), 265. Althought we cannot be sure where the Gospel was produced, the situation is rather clearly dependent on the Jewish war. The main question debated by scholars is whether it was written just prior to the destruction of Jerusalem or sometime afterward. Arguments based on... Continue Reading →
L. Michael White: The Gospel of John and the Breach with Judaism
L. Michael White, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite (HarperOne, 2010), 360. The Gospel of John thus represents a social situation of much greater separation of the Christian community from its Jewish neighbors. The theme of rejection of the message about Jesus has not been magnified into a total rejection of Jesus and the one sent from... Continue Reading →
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