Marfita’s Reviews > Who Wrote the Gospels? > Status Update

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.

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.