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9 Cards in this Set
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The Earlier, the Better
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"The logic of the principle, especially when dealing with ancient sources, is that as an event gets discussed and reports about it circulate, there are greater and greater opportunities for it to be changed -- until about everyone gets it wrong."
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Theological Merits/Historical Demerits
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"[A]ccounts of Jesus that are clearly imbued with a highly developed theology are less likely to be historically accurate."
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Beware of Bias
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"It is sometimes possible to detect a clear bias in an author -- for example, when just about every story in his or her account drives home, either subtly or obviously, the same point."
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Independent Attestation
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"This means that if there is a tradition about Jesus that is preserved in more than one of these documents, no one of them could have made it up, since the others knew of it as well, independently. And if a tradition is found in several of these sources, then the likelihood of its going back to the very beginning of the tradition from which they all ultimately derive, that is, back to the historical Jesus himself, is significantly improved."
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Dissimilarity
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"Embarrassment Principle."
"Dissimilar traditions, that is, those that do not support a clear Christian agenda, or that appear to work against it, are difficult to explain unless they are authentic. They are, therefore, more likely to be historical." **NOT NEGATIVE** |
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Contextual Credibility
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"For ancient documents, reliable traditions must conform to the historical and social contexts to which they relate. For the traditions of the Gospels, this means that the sayings, deeds, and experiences, of Jesus have to be plausibly situated in the historical context of first-century Palestine in order to be trusted as reliable. Any saying or deed of Jesus that does not 'make sense' in this context is automatically suspect."
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Important points for Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet
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(a) John the Baptist
(b) Paul (c) Jesus' own words |
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Paul as an immanent apocalypticist
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (the dead will be raised)
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Jesus as an immanent apolcalypticist
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Mark 8:38-9:1 ("not taste death")
Mark 13:30 ("this generation will not pass away") |
