tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post4024020798397032126..comments2024-03-22T17:35:52.045-04:00Comments on Extra Thoughts: Paley's Horae Paulinae on Aquila and PriscillaLydia McGrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post-86488381335188498852014-10-15T12:10:46.821-04:002014-10-15T12:10:46.821-04:00John, thanks so much for the comment! I _strongly_...John, thanks so much for the comment! I _strongly_ recommend Blunt on undesigned coincidences. (Also available for free electronically, I believe.) I have read Blunt all the way through and enjoyed it tremendously. One thing that struck me was how much work Blunt was actually able to do in the Old Testament with undesigned coincidences. I would have never thought it, but he shows how there is a variety of types of undesigned coincidences, and it does not always require multiple texts by different authors. So, for example, he notes the mysterious absence of Laban's father from consideration in Rebekah's marriage, even though he was alive, as a mark of truth: It appears from several different casual instances of neglect of him in Genesis that there may have been something wrong with him which caused the headship of the family to pass to Laban during the father's lifetime. Fascinating stuff. <br /><br />I'm not fazed much at all by the question of the visits in Galatians and Acts. That we have some difficult being sure _which_ visits Paul is referring to is not in any way evidence (as some would have it) against the accuracy of Acts. There are several good candidates for answering the puzzle as to which visit Paul is referring to in Galatians 2, and the disjunction (that one or the other of these is the correct answer) has a satisfactorily high probability.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post-91916251040899965572014-10-15T06:46:40.275-04:002014-10-15T06:46:40.275-04:00Lydia,
You frequently amaze! I think I must go b...Lydia,<br /><br />You frequently amaze! I think I must go back over the post while keeping a map and timeline to follow details that slip my mind in casual reading. But a few thoughts are readily kindled by your observations from Paley.<br /><br />First, I recall a great discussion of "unintended coincidence" in D.A. Carson's commentary on John, which tend towards the historicity of that often challenged text (which is thought to be so theological that it could scarcely be historical, ahem). Among its conclusions are that there were, indeed, two temple cleansings by Jesus, one early and one late in His Messianic ministry. Also, I note reference to Paley in F.F. Bruce's' commentary on the Greek text of Acts (and he mentions a work by J.J. Blunt setting forth such "coincidences" between OT and NT).<br /><br />I also have long recognized a Palestinian source used by Luke, which leads me to speculate that written gospel materials probably existed long before some extended period of oral transmission led to the writing of the canonical Gospels.<br /><br />You have also prompted me to go back and revisit discussions on the "we passages" in Acts, which provoke debate over whether Luke and Paul were travelling companions.<br /><br />Now, as to the relation of the Jerusalem visits mentioned in Acts and Galatians....lol.<br /><br />Thanks Again,<br />JohnJohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14816140945582832751noreply@blogger.com