{"id":6870,"date":"2014-12-26T04:34:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2014-12-18T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:13:02","slug":"a-real-scholar-on-the-so-called-lost-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/a-real-scholar-on-the-so-called-lost-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"a real scholar on the so-called “Lost Gospel”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"where'sLeading scholar Dr. Richard Bauckham has done\u00a0a public service by chewing \u00a0thoroughly through the “Lost Gospel”<\/a>: Dr. Mark Goodacre has posted Dr. Bauckham’s\u00a0article(s) here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s just say, he determines that it is all bun and no meat<\/strong>. A few teasers:<\/p>\n

They seem to be proposing a unique genre<\/strong> of ancient literature. Why should we believe them? It seems to be simply a way of getting Mary Magdalene into a text whose indications that it is more than just a literal story seem quite adequately explained in properly typological terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and later,<\/p>\n

…before Jacobovici and Wilson, none of the scholars who argue that it is a Christian text have regarded this as having any implications that anyone need be afraid of. It needs to be stressed that none of these scholars<\/strong> have thought for a moment that it is a coded history about Jesus\u2019 marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Real, heavyweight scholar > two conspiracy theorists. Wait, make that: hucksters<\/strong>. Again, Dr. Bauckham:<\/p>\n

In the assessment I have taken the arguments of LG seriously and assessed them by the usual criteria of rigorous historical investigation. This appears to be how the authors wish their arguments to be treated by scholars (cf. LG 304). But at the end of this assessment I am driven to wonder whether even the authors take their arguments and conclusions seriously<\/strong>. Jacobovici, at the end of his response to the first two parts of my assessment, seems himself to be suggesting that I am taking them too seriously. Probably the most generous assessment of the book would be to suppose that the authors have all along intended it as no more than an entertaining joke \u2013 a joke at the expense of those \u2018Pauline Christians\u2019 they so obviously detest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Folks, real scholars care about truth<\/strong>. That is (part of) why Dr. Bauckham<\/a> is a real scholar.<\/p>\n

For a shorter, old-fashioned two-thumbs-down review, look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re too young (or forgetful) to get the “Where’s the beef?” reference: you’re welcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading scholar Dr. Richard Bauckham has done\u00a0a public service by chewing \u00a0thoroughly through the “Lost Gospel”: Dr. Mark Goodacre has posted Dr. Bauckham’s\u00a0article(s) here. Let’s just say, he determines that it is all bun and no meat. A few teasers: They seem to be proposing a unique genre of ancient literature. Why should we believe… Read More »a real scholar on the so-called “Lost Gospel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,11,16,15,6,58,54,4,14,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-art","category-books","category-christology","category-complaints","category-creeds","category-debates","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-linkage","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}