LALEIN - 1 Cor 14:34

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Wed May 31 12:56:10 EDT 2000


At 17:05 30/05/00, I wrote:

>An excellent article " the Brothers and Sisters of the Lord in Ecumenical 
>Perspective " by John P. Meier in CBQ 54 (1992) is well worth reading, 
>with its outline of the various ( and not always consistent ) positions of 
>Jerome ( cousin ) , Ephiphanius ( stepbrother ) and Hegesippus ( literal 
>brother ). As regards the approach of Ephiphanius he notes that even as 
>reputable a team of authors as Brown et al. who produced "Mary in the New 
>Testament" demonstrated confusion between "stepbrother" and "half-brother"
>
>This material is also developed in chap. 10 of:
>Meier, John P. Jesus the Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. 
>Vol. 1. The Roots of the Problem and the Person. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
>
>More recently, the topic  ( or part of it ) has been re-visited in the 
>CBQ, with Dr. Richard Bauckham putting forward qualifications


but I was not able at that time to give details of the Bauckham article and 
Meier's reply.

Here are the details:

Richard Bauckham "The Brothers and Sisters of the Lord: an Epiphanian 
response to John P. Meier" CBQ 56 (1994) 686-700

John P. Meier "On Retrojecting Later Questions from Later Texts: A Reply to 
Richard Bauckham" CBQ 59 ( 1997) 511-27

You might also like to know of Bauckham's book of 1990 " Jude and the 
Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church " (Edinburgh: T. &  T. Clark) 
However, in his reply Meier makes the point that "in both our cases, our 
acticles rather than the books present the more advanced stage of our 
thinking".

Given that as distinguished a scholar as Bauckham is prepared to disagree 
with Meier on Epiphanian grounds, I can only re-iterate my view that this 
whole question is a great deal more nuanced than your posting would suggest.

Regards
Maurice




Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie






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