Peter Kirby

The idea is to produce a compendium of external references that in some way illuminate the interpretation of the New Testament.

A decent start can be found in the 30 pages of citations (just cites, not quotes) found in appendix two of Craig Evans's Noncanonical Writings and New Testament Interpretation (or via: amazon.co.uk).

Please let me know what interest there is and concerns there are.

I would tend to be more inclusive than exclusive, and to allow the reader to exercise his or her discretion on the relevance factor. On the other hand, there may be a use for metadata on the 'parallels', comments from people about how they may or may not be useful for illuminating the text.

If my original e-Catena is any indication, there should be some interest in this. Shall we dig in?

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Peter Kirby

Peter Kirby

I've done a bit of proof of concept here. It's neither extensive as yet nor especially well laid-out, but perhaps an initial design is enough to get feedback rolling in.

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Peter Kirby

No Robots

You might want to include the Talmud. To my knowledge the only online edition is here, an an antisemitic website.

Vorkosigan

You should also include the greek erotic novels and the hellenistic epistolary fictions.

Michael

Peter Kirby

Yes and I should also include the kitchen sink! I already said that I would want to be inclusive. But the main idea here is that the process of paralleling be collaborative. There is no way that I would be able to do all this myself. I need to work on getting my NT with English critical apparatus out.

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Peter Kirby