tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post111433427620400420..comments2023-10-02T07:50:17.119-07:00Comments on The Sword: Book Review: Thomas L. Thompson, The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and DavidMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-61338132528115809552011-12-02T22:32:29.799-08:002011-12-02T22:32:29.799-08:00Thanks Thomas for your honest view of this exposed...Thanks Thomas for your honest view of this exposed past history. I have no problem with this at all. <br /><br />I'm still left with the existential wonderful mystery of being.How wonderfully thoughtful and amazing. <br /><br />Its liberating and understood. It was much like Waiting for Godot. Now its revealed and acknowledged. Again, thank you for your honesty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-87293854815446178572011-01-28T19:28:59.710-08:002011-01-28T19:28:59.710-08:00Excellent review. Thompson's book caught my ey...Excellent review. Thompson's book caught my eye, but now I'm sold. It looks like it might have gone out of print, so I'll have to snoop around for a used one.Victorhttp://thishollowearth.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-87329177816402204102007-09-02T10:20:00.000-07:002007-09-02T10:20:00.000-07:00Mr Thompson would, I suspect, dismiss the idea tha...Mr Thompson would, I suspect, dismiss the idea that Mark's gospel was "historically the most important" on the grounds that that is a 'historisation' of the gospel and the figure of Jesus contained herein. Mr Thompson's hypothosis attempts to move focus away from unprovable 'actions' into intellectual worlds epitomised by texts. How these texts relate to non-literary worlds is perhaps the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1141132008447541062006-02-28T05:06:00.000-08:002006-02-28T05:06:00.000-08:00Nevertheless, Mr Thompson has some very interestin...Nevertheless, Mr Thompson has some very interesting things to say about reiterative tropes in the gospels. Paricularly the Temple scene.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1140666509924778022006-02-22T19:48:00.000-08:002006-02-22T19:48:00.000-08:00Yes. The priority of Mark is correct. In my analys...Yes. The priority of Mark is correct. In my analysis of Mark I have recovered its original structure, and it is very easy to see that Matt has tampered with it, not that Mark has condensed it out of Matt.<BR/><BR/>MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1140666057601378732006-02-22T19:40:00.000-08:002006-02-22T19:40:00.000-08:00—"Right or wrong the priority of Mark is a conclus...—<BR/>"Right or wrong the priority of Mark is a conclusion, not an assumption."<BR/><BR/>"Right or wrong"? Well, maybe it's wrong. Are you familiar with The Present State Of The Synoptic Problem?<BR/><BR/>(http://www.ntgateway.com/synoptic-l/FARMER.HTM)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1140539140991276532006-02-21T08:25:00.000-08:002006-02-21T08:25:00.000-08:00An excellent review of a very interesting book. No...An excellent review of a very interesting book. Not quite sure that Thompson doesn't leave room for the logic of a historical Jesus behind Christianity - even if he feels his history can't be gleaned from the gospels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com