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Originally inspired by this recent post by Doug Chaplin, I exhumed a paper I wrote in third year Greek while an undergrad (I estimate this to be c. 2000-2001). As a segue between my last post and my next, I thought I’d present it here with minimal edits. Please realize that the scholarship within this [...] Related posts:

  1. More on what NT faith is about
  2. Defining faith in Hebrews 11.1
  3. How do you know you’re in the faith?


Ok, I’ll give this a try, although I didn’t get any bites with my last attempt at soliciting information from the learned… I need to find the best references for textual variants in the Gospels. I’m not as much interested in the critically identified “best readings” of the text themselves, but good apparati that show the [...] Related posts:

  1. Dialectology and the Gospels
  2. The Truth Project and critical thinking
  3. Meandering through the Synoptics


Since starting my research of the Gospels for my dissertation, I have repeatedly wondered (as I idly mused earlier) if there have been any attempts to identify where the Gospels may have originated/developed based upon dialectal considerations. As I run across patterns such as Matthew’s preference for plural nouns and lexical issues such as synonym [...] Related posts:

  1. Help wanted: critical editions of the Gospels
  2. Meandering through the Synoptics
  3. Editorial fatigue : author :: progressive latitude : translator