Amaleq13

Relative to the other Gospels.

IIRC, Randel Helms does a good job summarizing the evidence in Gospel Fictions

Derec

REG:
Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man--
STAN:
Or woman.
REG:
Why don't you shut up about women, Stan. You're putting us off.
STAN:
Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS:
Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN:
I want to be one.

REG:
What?
STAN:
I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG:
What?!
LORETTA:
It's my right as a man.

JUDITH:
Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA:
I want to have babies.
REG:
You want to have babies?!
LORETTA:
It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG:
But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA:
Don't you oppress me.
REG:
I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!

Chili

Luke may have been a woman but was not a female. From the mythical perspective woman is the wherewithal of man (TOL) commonly known as the subconscious mind from where Luke was written. Matthew was written from the conscious mind werein we are human and at times all too human.

Luke is where womanhood equals manhood in the androgyne identity of God with woman being the storehouse of riches and man being the speaker in this Gospel.

Just my thought on this but thank you for reinforcing it.

Ben C Smith

:Cheeky:

Ben.

Roger Pearse

Perhaps the real question we need to ask is whether George W. Bush is black...

Doug Shaver

<sigh>

Another "You've got to read the book."

Maybe someday. I'll try to remember to keep my opinions about Luke's gender to myself until then.

Amaleq13

And it should be a different book by Helms.

Who Wrote The Gospels?

In response to the sigh, here are some easily extracted highlights:

2 of 4 miracles Luke adds to Mark are to the benefit of women

4 of the 8 sayings ("Apopthegmata") concern women

"In each case, Luke balances material about men and women equally, and in each group, puts the women first." (p.81)

IMO, the argument he presents is not sufficient for the conclusion but he does point out what seems to be a legitimate difference in this author's focus.

Ben C Smith

The recommendation was for a book, not hari kari. So why the sigh?

Ben.

premjan

spelling is "Hara Kiri" (Seppuku).

Ben C Smith

Okay, thanks. I see hari kari all over the internet, though. Is it possibly an alternate rendering into English?

Ben.