From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 08:40:18 BST
Hi Maggie,
Thanks for this, you are quite right it is misleading to describe them as
anonymous. In fact much academic criticism is devoted to describing the
communities which developed each gospel (especially John) as they are
clearly shaped by an early church, and their devotional needs.
Sam
www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maggie Hettinger" <hettingr@iglou.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: MD Jesus
> Thank you, Sam. Good starting point.
>
> On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 05:49 PM, Elizaphanian wrote:
> <snip> they all describe various events in Jesus'
> > life, particularly stories about healing, and include passages of
> > Jesus'
> > teaching, often in parables; they all describe Jesus' subsequent trial
> > and
> > crucifixion, and then conclude with an account of the resurrection;
> > importantly, they are all anonymous.
>
>
> "anonymous" to most people today simply implies that no one claims the
> writing.
>
> I think it's significant that the gospels have an an identity that is
> very different than "anonymous." Rather than being claimed by
> no-one, they were claimed, owned, created by a large number of people.
> These works were "preached," long before they were recorded, and
> preaching, at its best (as it probably was in early Christianity) is a
> unique form of group communication that has very high awareness of
> community (shared language, meanings that are repeated, filtered,
> condensed and refined into the language of prayer and chant) and at the
> same time has a very high infusion of individuality and intellect,
> evidenced by the leadership of particular people using (at the time of
> the early Christians) the new techniques of Greek intellectualism.
>
> maggie
>
>
>
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