tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post5970323266921179251..comments2023-05-10T08:55:47.701-07:00Comments on Richard Carrier Blogs: Mark 16:9-20Richard Carrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-4066639396109502662011-08-24T00:40:31.933-07:002011-08-24T00:40:31.933-07:00I'm sure these mark 16:9-20 are absolutely for...I'm sure these mark 16:9-20 are absolutely forgery .... none of Jesus's disciple spread around the world to teach the gentiles as the verses said. Jesus's disciples ignore the great comission.XucinxgaronXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551307424180175932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-11624967388396917092011-06-06T14:57:32.202-07:002011-06-06T14:57:32.202-07:00James E. Snapp, Jr. said...
There are dozens of er...<b>James E. Snapp, Jr. said...</b><br /><i>There are dozens of errors and inaccuracies in your essay on Mark 16:9-20. Please contact me for more information.</i><br /><br />Just email me: <a href="mailto:rcarrier@infidels.org" rel="nofollow">rcarrier@infidels.org</a>. Present your list of errors and the documentation for each that establishes it's an error. If there really are any, I'll Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-26216848903598969452011-06-03T19:15:19.680-07:002011-06-03T19:15:19.680-07:00Greetings Richard.
There are dozens of errors and...Greetings Richard.<br /><br />There are dozens of errors and inaccuracies in your essay on Mark 16:9-20. Please contact me for more information.<br /><br />Yours in Christ,<br /><br />James Snapp, Jr.<br />Minister, Curtisville Christian Church<br />IndianaJames Snapp Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493891380752272603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-21716403111872565112011-05-30T11:17:26.840-07:002011-05-30T11:17:26.840-07:00P.S. On how the Holding debate went, see my remark...P.S. On how the Holding debate went, see <a href="http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2011/02/debating-jp-holding.html?showComment=1306779254434#c6185885949625538230" rel="nofollow">my remark in the appropriate thread</a>.Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-84667769681149471552011-05-30T10:53:20.313-07:002011-05-30T10:53:20.313-07:00Lucretius said... To address Ben's comment abo...<b>Lucretius said...</b> <i>To address Ben's comment about why this quite thorough treatment of the issue is needed I would say that it is just part of building the case against Christianity. Some may "need" it and of course others may not.</i><br /><br />I would add it's also a numbers game. The value of an extensive case is that the odds go up that something in there will Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-74947182209436159332011-05-30T10:46:42.077-07:002011-05-30T10:46:42.077-07:00JoeWallack said... I think you need to expand his ...<b>JoeWallack said...</b> <i>I think you need to expand his discussion beyond the two present paragraphs to make it proportional to his importance to your conclusion. Specifically I think you need to address his possible bias for apologetic reasons (avoiding a contradiction with "Matthew" in the context of a private letter) and whether he was qualified to conclude on the state of the Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-29911230321501406552011-05-30T10:14:36.481-07:002011-05-30T10:14:36.481-07:00kilo papa said... Interpolations in the letters of...<b>kilo papa said...</b> <i>Interpolations in the letters of Paul sounds very interesting. Are they related to the case for Mythicism?</i><br /><br />One is, but only in an uninteresting way (uninteresting because mainstream scholars already agree it's an interpolation, so there is nothing controversial about mythicists saying so). I'll say more in a future blog post.Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-69427819303308778642011-05-30T10:13:19.658-07:002011-05-30T10:13:19.658-07:00Ben said... Why do we need the ending of Mark to m...<b>Ben said...</b> <i>Why do we need the ending of Mark to make this point for us ...?</i><br /><br />That's a question for the Errancy Wiki site owner. I'm just a paid contractor. He wanted the most complete presentation of the evidence and scholarship on that matter, and paid me to produce it. That's the extent of my real interest.<br /><br />(Although as an educator it always Richard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-61799287186433364352011-05-30T10:07:42.486-07:002011-05-30T10:07:42.486-07:00sgreene25 said...
I suspect you will be presentin...<b>sgreene25 said...</b><br /><br /><i>I suspect you will be presenting a paper at SBL, or submitting it to an academical journal for publication....am I correct?</i><br /><br />No. Because nothing in it is new. SBL conferences and journals don't sponsor or print things that are already known and established. "It's been done; we already know that" is what they'd all say. YouRichard Carrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577206926510030146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-32548410857336912612011-05-17T10:25:01.066-07:002011-05-17T10:25:01.066-07:00When I was reevaluating my Christian beliefs I ins...When I was reevaluating my Christian beliefs I instinctively knew to go for the "jugular" so to speak, i.e. the resurrection accounts. Part of my studies was Mark 9-16 quite naturally. I recall that even in English translation, the break in style between 8 and 9 is quite marked and after further study it became plain to me very quickly that the LE is not part of the original Mark.<br /Lucretiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12533326741858493168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-877511533200350842011-05-16T05:52:24.988-07:002011-05-16T05:52:24.988-07:00When you write about interpolations in the Pauline...When you write about interpolations in the Pauline epistles be sure to take this crucial article into consideration:<br /><br />The First Edition of the Paulina<br />by Paul-Louis Couchoud (1928)<br />http://www.radikalkritik.de/couch_engl.htm<br /><br />(Better to read the linked PDF file, as the HTML version has typographical flaws.)<br /><br /><br />Couchoud argued that when we compare the Otishpotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02470119796196129079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-88436235786113292872011-05-14T11:17:29.040-07:002011-05-14T11:17:29.040-07:00Congratulations on your article Dr. Carrier. I thi...Congratulations on your article Dr. Carrier. I think it is immediately the best article ever written on the subject but can be improved. In my related dedicated Thread at FRDB:<br /><br />http://www.freeratio.org/showpost.php?p=6787725&postcount=64<br /><br />I've offered some suggestions for improvement. Eusebius is a star witness for your conclusion due to his identification of the JoeWallackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10666074795187377455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-61927598901149572542011-05-14T02:14:35.766-07:002011-05-14T02:14:35.766-07:00Interpolations in the letters of Paul sounds very ...Interpolations in the letters of Paul sounds very interesting. Are they related to the case for Mythicism?kilo papahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15112057471953902453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-2399733232067753642011-05-13T09:47:43.113-07:002011-05-13T09:47:43.113-07:00Why do we need the ending of Mark to make this poi...Why do we need the ending of Mark to make this point for us when any given apologist will already admit we don't have the original autographs? Mark could have been reasonably wrapped up better in a sentence or two and a few drops here and there in an enormous collection of books probably won't matter much on balance to people. This seems to be ultimately more of a "why don't weBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14479224236264150172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-21892085433692150842011-05-12T10:06:24.928-07:002011-05-12T10:06:24.928-07:00Since you believe this article definitively does w...Since you believe this article definitively does what it claims it does; I suspect you will be presenting a paper at SBL, or submitting it to an academical journal for publication....am I correct? If so which ones and when?sgreene25https://www.blogger.com/profile/02233801539694571537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36959219.post-71760367968261779142011-05-11T11:14:38.802-07:002011-05-11T11:14:38.802-07:00This passage is of particular interest to me, beca...This passage is of particular interest to me, because it was the topic of the very last church service I ever attended as a Christian. Despite the fact that the text [The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have verses 9–20.] appears in just about every print version (and online version) of the Bible I've ever seen, the pastor of that church thought it prudent to The Nerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00617669314398652449noreply@blogger.com