For certain decisions, especially the 5-4 votes, it would seem possible
to analyze the opinion to find out which portions are there because it
was necessary to get a justice to vote for it. Sometimes those hunches
are verified by the later publication of internal memos or memoirs.
Other opinions would seem to be virtually impossible to extract previous
layers.
I suppose a good control for Kloppenborg's method would be to extract
Mark from the contents of Matthew (assuming that Mark and Luke are not
extant). Would all the fulfillment quotations be put in a secondary
layer?
Stephen Carlson
-- Stephen C. Carlson : Poetry speaks of aspirations, scarlson@mindspring.com : and songs chant the words. http://www.mindspring.com/~scarlson/ : -- Shujing 2.35