Recent Sightings
January 3, 2008
Check out the current Biblical Studies carnival here.
Also, over at Evangelical Textual Criticism, Michael Bird discusses what role text criticism has for the study of the historical Jesus. He argues, for one thing, that it is necessary to establish that the textual tradition is just as reliable as the oral tradition which has transmitted the gospels to modern readers. This is a good point, especially with the stir that Bauckham’s book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses has caused as of late, in which he argues that the four gospels are closely based on a reliable stream of eyewitness testimony.
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