Synoptic variation: Don't make it too complicated!

Here we're talking about the story of the raising of Jairus's daughter, mostly, and a bit about the woman who was healed when she touched Jesus' robe. This video is about what I think is a wrong approach to variations in the stories among the Synoptic Gospels--Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This redactive-critical approach overinterprets trivial differences, creates contradictions where none are present, and attributes any additional information in Matthew and Luke to invention when it isn't in Mark, rather than realizing that Matthew and Luke could add information to a story even if they were also using Mark. Don't let anyone tell you that you have to accept this approach because most scholars accept "Markan priority." It's okay to use more commonsense explanations of Gospel differences, and at this channel we're trying to make common sense rigorous.

I use this article as a foil for the discussion: https://www.academia.edu/40139908/The_Rhetoric_of_Redaction_A_Rhetorical_Analysis_of_Redaction_in_Luke Here are some other places where I've discussed the use of "the exercise books" in a way that functionally undermines Gospel reliability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLb6rsnNycc&list=PLe1tMOs8ARn0S9CsFG47bKjcYxsnHujhg&index=2 https://lydiaswebpage.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-licona-series-on-greco-roman.html http://whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2018/04/going_chreiazy.html

And, of course, The Mirror or the Mask: https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Mask-Liberating-Gospels-Literary/dp/1947929070/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mirror+or+the+mask&qid=1600272214&sr=8-1 #mirrororthemask #gospelreliability #lydiamcgrew

Originally uploaded Jun 18 2021