08-13-2012, 07:56 AM
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Dennis MacDonald, who linked Mark and the Homeric Epics, has a new book out, published by the SBL:
Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias's Exposition of Logia about the Lord (or via: amazon.co.uk)
blurb:
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With characteristic boldness and a creative look at long-neglected evidence, MacDonald offers an alternative reconstruction of Q and an alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem: the Q+/Papias Hypothesis. To do so, he reconstructs and interprets two lost books about Jesus: the earliest Gospel, which was used as a source by the authors of Mark, Matthew, and Luke; and the earliest commentary on the Gospels, by Papias of Hierapolis, who apparently knew Mark, Matthew, and the lost Gospel, which he considered to be an alternative Greek translation of a Semitic Matthew. MacDonald also explores how these two texts, well known into the fourth century, vanished in the shipwrecks of canonization and errant eschatology.
"Dennis MacDonald is one of the most creative and intellectually innovative New Testament scholars of his generation. In this bold new book, MacDonald dares to reimagine the textual landscape of early Gospel traditions. Attention is focused on reconstructing two lost Gospel texts, the Logoi of Jesus (the so-called Q source) and Papias's The Exposition of Logia about the Lord. MacDonald develops a new paradigm for reconstructing Q and in the process generates a text nearly twice as long as traditional reconstructions. This he calls Q+. In relation to Papias's Exposition, MacDonald argues that work was a commentary on three Gospel texts: Matthew, Mark, and the Logoi of Jesus. Here MacDonald seeks to reassemble the surviving fragments of Papias's work in their original order, and he speculates concerning the material that would have filled the gaps between these fragments. MacDonald's work is brave, challenging, and stimulating. If his ideas prove correct, the implication for New Testament scholarship and current understandings of the transmission of the Jesus tradition would be truly revolutionary."
—Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
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The preface is available on the SBL site:
http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/...508P.front.pdf
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