Status Updates From Who Wrote the Gospels?

I am not enjoying this because it presupposes intimate knowledge such that he assumes you have enormous amount of verses memorized for recall. I learned much from the Introduction and first few pages of the Mark section. I will read the initial parts of the chapters to see who are the authors.

The authors are anonymous and several steps away from Jesus or the Apostles. Much too comes from oral traditions.

Whoah, Nellie! The author of John is out to totally negate Mark's gospel! It's a slapdown fight! That wasn't a Passover meal, it was the night before! The bread is for Betrayers, giving it to Judas first. Peter loses primacy to the fictional "beloved disciple." Take your Petrine authority back to Jerusalem ... oh, right, you can't, can you?

"It is accomplished"!!?? I have never heard of this interpretation. "It is done." "It is finished." [Madly scrolls through BibleGateway.com checking this.] Helms says the author is making Jesus look less inept in that he won't have to come back to finish his mission. At the time of the writing, it was clear the prediction in Mark was wrong.

Hang on, let me get this straight in my head. If Paul calls the resurrection of Jesus the firstfruits, he cannot know that Jesus raised people from the dead. Which shows either that Paul knew very little about Jesus or that those stories developed later.

Now he's gone all Immanuel Velikovsky on me (Velikovsky made the connection between Oedipus and Akhenaten in the same heavy-handed way he tried to connect carbohydrates and hydrocarbons in Worlds In Collision). Lazarus = Osiris. Osiris is buried at Annu, sometimes called the House of Annu > Beth-Annu = Lazarus of Bethany. Osiris had 2 sisters! OMG! Hee.

Hahaha! Now "she's" ripping off Euripides' "The Bacchae." This is entirely unsurprising. One learned to read by reading ancient classics and one learned to write (and to compose new material) by copying the classics. This is, in fact, pretty much the way we all come up with our sentences, by building on ones we've already heard/read.

Well, I'm convinced that Luke/Acts contain the most references to females. I jokingly predicted that there would be more references to "feelings" in Luke ... and apparently I was right about that. Doesn't make the author a woman, tho'.

Interesting, he's transcribing the Greek into the Latin alphabet - which, oddly enough, is confusing me.

This is already hilarious. He has an actual answer, apparently. This was on the return cart when I went to check for books to put away. It smells of cigar smoke ... unless that's one of those smell hallucinations I think I'm getting from reading the Oliver Sacks book.