Comments on: Luke’s prologue: Six degrees of synoptic separation? http://heissufficient.com/2008/12/21/lukes-prologue-six-degrees-of-synoptic-separation/ Searching for wit and wisdom in a wilderness of words... Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: ElShaddai Edwards http://heissufficient.com/2008/12/21/lukes-prologue-six-degrees-of-synoptic-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-4179 ElShaddai Edwards Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:36:24 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1632#comment-4179 Hmm... I'm reading <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/novemberweb-only/11-17-42.0.html" rel="nofollow">more about Gundry</a> now. Interesting. My attitude toward Matthew has been slowly changing in this direction - the latest straw on the camel's back was the recent article about Herod in the December issue of National Geographic, which included this quote: <blockquote>Yet today he is best known as the sly and murderous monarch of Matthew's Gospel, who slaughtered every male infant in Bethlehem in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the newborn Jesus, the prophesied King of the Jews. During the Middle Ages he became the image of the Antichrist: Illuminated manuscripts and Gothic gargoyles show him tearing his beard in mad fury and brandishing his sword at the luckless infants, with Satan whispering in his ear. Herod is almost certainly innocent of this crime, of which there is no report apart from Matthew's account.</blockquote> Hmm… I’m reading more about Gundry now. Interesting. My attitude toward Matthew has been slowly changing in this direction – the latest straw on the camel’s back was the recent article about Herod in the December issue of National Geographic, which included this quote:

Yet today he is best known as the sly and murderous monarch of Matthew’s Gospel, who slaughtered every male infant in Bethlehem in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the newborn Jesus, the prophesied King of the Jews. During the Middle Ages he became the image of the Antichrist: Illuminated manuscripts and Gothic gargoyles show him tearing his beard in mad fury and brandishing his sword at the luckless infants, with Satan whispering in his ear. Herod is almost certainly innocent of this crime, of which there is no report apart from Matthew’s account.

]]> By: Esteban Vázquez http://heissufficient.com/2008/12/21/lukes-prologue-six-degrees-of-synoptic-separation/comment-page-1/#comment-4177 Esteban Vázquez Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:49:44 +0000 http://heissufficient.com/?p=1632#comment-4177 <i>(As for Matthew, I tend to read him as a separate narrative line from Mark - his purposes seem so different and prophecy focused in terms of identifying messianic fulfillment of the OT - perhaps, dare I say, less a literal narrative than Mark and Luke and already bordering on allegorical or typological?!)</i> OMG, ElShaddai, the Evangelical thought-police is going to get you! Didn't you see what happened to Bob Gundry?! ;-) (As for Matthew, I tend to read him as a separate narrative line from Mark – his purposes seem so different and prophecy focused in terms of identifying messianic fulfillment of the OT – perhaps, dare I say, less a literal narrative than Mark and Luke and already bordering on allegorical or typological?!)

OMG, ElShaddai, the Evangelical thought-police is going to get you! Didn’t you see what happened to Bob Gundry?!

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