05-12-2013, 07:48 PM
Distazo:
I already covered the difference between Hansen's Disease (leprosy) and tzara'at, and no modern scholar of merit equates the two. An unqualified assertion of "not strong" does not tenably counter the scholarly testimonies I and others in this thread have provided, neither does an assertion reliant solely upon a "source" universally attested to be unreliable and non-authoritative (Wikipedia).
Re: the pronouncement quoted above, it is well and long established that Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9, Luke 7:36-50, and John 12:1-8 all report the same event, as presented in Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels with Alternative Readings from the Manuscripts and Noncanonical Parallels (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1992), Sections 83 & 232; agreeing with the synopses of Albert Huck (1892) and Hans Lietzmann (1936). There is no indication that Luke's account of Yeshua's anointing is a different occasion in a different place. John makes it clear that the location is Beit-Anya/Bethany (John 12:1), all four accounts of the event agree on the woman bringing an alabaster container of nard (Matthew 26:7; Mark 14:3; Luke 7:37; John 12:3), and Luke agrees with John 12 on the details of the anointing (Luke 7:38 || John 12:3). John 12:1-8 is listed as paralleling Matthew 26:6-13 not only in Throckmorton, Huck, and Lietzmann, but also in Thomas & Gundry, Dwight Pentecost, A. T. Robertson, Harold Hoehner, etc. Thus, John and Luke being parallel, and John being universally recognized as parallel to Matthew and Mark; it follows that all four testimonies recount the same event.
I already covered the difference between Hansen's Disease (leprosy) and tzara'at, and no modern scholar of merit equates the two. An unqualified assertion of "not strong" does not tenably counter the scholarly testimonies I and others in this thread have provided, neither does an assertion reliant solely upon a "source" universally attested to be unreliable and non-authoritative (Wikipedia).
distazo Wrote:Secondly, that Luke 7 would be a parralel is not strong either.
a LOT of people were named Simon. This is Simon the Pharisee, and it is probably in the city Nain from Galilea, not in Judea, in the city Beth-Anya where Simon the 'leper' lived.
Re: the pronouncement quoted above, it is well and long established that Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9, Luke 7:36-50, and John 12:1-8 all report the same event, as presented in Burton H. Throckmorton, Jr., Gospel Parallels: A Comparison of the Synoptic Gospels with Alternative Readings from the Manuscripts and Noncanonical Parallels (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1992), Sections 83 & 232; agreeing with the synopses of Albert Huck (1892) and Hans Lietzmann (1936). There is no indication that Luke's account of Yeshua's anointing is a different occasion in a different place. John makes it clear that the location is Beit-Anya/Bethany (John 12:1), all four accounts of the event agree on the woman bringing an alabaster container of nard (Matthew 26:7; Mark 14:3; Luke 7:37; John 12:3), and Luke agrees with John 12 on the details of the anointing (Luke 7:38 || John 12:3). John 12:1-8 is listed as paralleling Matthew 26:6-13 not only in Throckmorton, Huck, and Lietzmann, but also in Thomas & Gundry, Dwight Pentecost, A. T. Robertson, Harold Hoehner, etc. Thus, John and Luke being parallel, and John being universally recognized as parallel to Matthew and Mark; it follows that all four testimonies recount the same event.