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Toto · 08-15-2003, 10:36 AM

In Believe it, or don't, {an interesting commentary on belief in America taking off from the alleged virgin birth} Nicholas D. Krsitof says:

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The Gospels of Matthew and Luke do say Mary was a virgin, but internal evidence suggests that that part of Luke, in particular, may have been added later by someone else (it is written, for example, in a different kind of Greek than the rest of that gospel).

Is this the consensus of language experts?

Peter Kirby · 08-15-2003, 10:54 AM

Kind of hard to say without knowing which verses in Luke he'd like to bracket. The opinion that the infancy narratives were an addition to the canonical gospels has been popular with unitarians and such since about the 18th century, since it allows one to reject the "born divine" idea while not rejecting the gospels. It is also popular with gnostics who thought Jesus came down from heaven directly, as shown by Marcion's omission of anything to do with Jesus' youth in his Gospel of the Lord.

best,
Peter Kirby

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Peter Kirby Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: the reliquary of Ockham's razor Posts: 4,035	Kind of hard to say without knowing which verses in Luke he'd like to bracket. The opinion that the infancy narratives were an addition to the canonical gospels has been popular with unitarians and such since about the 18th century, since it allows one to reject the "born divine" idea while not rejecting the gospels. It is also popular with gnostics who thought Jesus came down from heaven directly, as shown by Marcion's omission of anything to do with Jesus' youth in his Gospel of the Lord. best, Peter Kirby

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