From: Bruce Terry (terry@bible.acu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 31 1995 - 17:17:18 EDT
On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Tim Staker wrote:
> I have to disagree with Jan Haugland that the little apocalypse contains
>the historically accurate logia of Jesus. This particular passage borrows
>heavily on language and vocab from Dan 7:13; 9:27; 11:31; 12:1-2; 12:12; Ex
>9:18; Is 8:21; 13:13; 19:2; 2 Chron 15:6; Ez 7:12-16; 4 Esdras
>13:30-32; 6:25; etc.
Personally, I do not disagree with Jan about this, only about how to
understand the logia. The fact that there are striking similarities between
this discourse by Jesus and Old Testament passages is not strange, nor does it
disprove their historicity; many things that Jesus said have their roots in
the Old Testament. He was a man of the Book, an example for us.
I do doubt that the language of the synoptic apocalypse borrows from 4 Esdras.
It is most likely the other way around. That work is so influenced by
Christianity that it must have originated after most, if not all, of the New
Testament. Metzger says something similar in his introduction to the Oxford
RSV Apocrypha: late first to third century A.D. origin.
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