Re: Flight to Egypt (was Re: [asa] Gospel in the Stars WAS Star of Bethlehem presentation?)

Still, someone will make a 3 volume dissertation out of it :-)

On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Murray Hogg wrote:

> Pete Enns wrote:
>> Very interesting. I wasn't aware of that---although we are looking at several possible levels of conjectured connections.....
>
> Absolutely! :)
>
> P.Cair. 10 735 is obviously not something one would want to put much weight on as the likelihood that a 6th/7th century fragment has textual dependence on the synoptics is obviously very high.
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> But if one considers that a textual variation of this sort most likely arose before the tradition ossified in its Matthean form, then it should perhaps give one pause.
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> I can think of two inferences which one could make in light of dual accounts of the event - either it affirms the historical reliability of Matthew, or it affirms the exegetical flexibility of the tradition.
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> Doesn't help much to resolve the extent to which the account is history or midrash though, does it?
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> As always a far less fragmentary version of such a text wouldn't hurt. Sigh...
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> Blessings,
> Murray
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Received on Tue Nov 24 18:20:36 2009