Matt 28:17 some or all doubted?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 19 12:26:38 EDT 1999


At 5:08 PM +0100 7/19/99, Pete Phillips wrote:
>Yes, but, the text says that the 11 are the only ones in the narrative
>frame.  Do these OI DE refer to a group who are antithetical to the 11 and
>also outside this narrative frame?  Either the doubters are a subset of
>the 11 or why doesnlt Matthew use ETEROI or some similar marker to point
>outside this narrative frame?

I'm assuming that Matthew's chapter 28 has some unity; 28:10 has the women
being told, hUPAGETE APAGGEILATE TOIS ADELFOIS MOU hINA APELQWSIN EIS THN
GALILAIAN, KA'KEI ME OYONTAI. I would assume that it is NOT only the eleven
who go to Galilee in Mt's perspective but a larger group. I'd also be
inclined to think there's redaction of a tradition going on here, but even
apart from that, for my part, I think that Mt does assume a larger group
than the Eleven are present for this event.


Carl W. Conrad
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