It is eight and a half minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.
NT Pod Episode 3: What is "Redaction"? (mp3)
Key texts: Matthew 8:23-27 // Mark 4:35-41
Podcast about the New Testament and Christian Origins. Condensed comment from an academic perspective for everyone interested in historical approaches to the New Testament. By Mark Goodacre, Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University.
great summary Mark. As you said, it can be a helpful academic exercise, but I feel redaction criticism, or its 'parent' Form Critism gets itself tangled up sometimes - that it assumes or suggests the gospel authors are almost too creative; that critics have already decided what they will find - that the author is guilty and thay they will decide the penalty; and of course - redaction criticism of the gospels assumes a Markan priority which is not unanimously agreed.
ReplyDeleteGreat pod Mark.
Thanks very much, Trevor. I do hope to return to the issue again, and especially to the question of Marcan Priority and the Synoptic Problem, something of an interest of mine :)
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