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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Words cannot explain the awesomeness of this video.
Bravo! May this be the start of a widespread phenomenon in the biblioblogosphere – educational videos featuring toys!
amen!!!!!
Okay, Joel, you’ve presented a solution to the Synoptic question that obviates the need for Q. I’m a little skeptical. I’d need to be shown the strength of your hypothesis over against the 2-Source hypothesis. But, obviously, that was not the intent of this video.
So, I had a roommate in seminary who proposed his own solution to the Synoptic problem. You may be able to relate. The Gospel of Mark was the first draft of a doctoral candidate’s dissertation. He submitted it to his advisor who suggested the need for more background information about Jesus’ birth, maybe some more teaching material, and a stronger ending. The student rewrote his dissertation and submitted the Gospel of Matthew.
His advisor thought the revision was much stronger but felt that the teaching material should be better integrated into the narrative, thought a story about Jesus’ youth might be helpful, and suggested that the genealogy could be expanded back to Adam, etc. The PhD candidate did another major revision and produced the Gospel of Luke.
Once again the advisor was critical and asked for major revisions. Frustrated, the student took drugs and wrote the Gospel of John.
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Can I post this?
I’m writing a book about the argument! Until then, I am a huge supporter of the Farrer-Goulder-Goodacre Theory.
Credit it to my late roommate Jordan S. Scharf.
Jordan R Scharf
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