From: Stephen C Carlson (scarlso1@osf1.gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 26 1996 - 10:23:16 EDT
Alan Repurk wrote:
>Carlton L. Winbery wrote:
>> Ladislav Tichy wrote;
>> > Who of the list-members could give their opinion on Carsten Peter
>> >Thiede and Matthew d'Ancona's book "Eyewitness to Jesus. Amazing New
>> >Manuscript Evidence About the Origin of the Gospels", New York:
>> >Doubleday, 1996?
>> >
>> Bill Peterson recently posted a devastating critique of Thiede on tc-list.
>> He convinced me that Thiede had come to his conclusions on inadequate
>> evidence and flawed methodology. I do not have at my fingertips the
>> address of the archive for tc-list, but perhaps someone has a copy of
>> Peterson's review and can share it.
>>
>> Carlton L. Winbery
>
>Here is the site with the article. If anyone does not have web
>access I could post it on request.
><http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~petersig/thiede2.txt>
If that's the case, then the scholar is Sigrid Peterson, not Bill Peterson.
For those who haven't read the article, she has two basic points of criticism:
1. Thiede's use of paleography from Herculaneum is problemmatic for
dating because handwriting styles may be regional. Paleographers
should prefer local samples.
2. Even granting to Thiede the first point, he has not eliminated the
c. 200 date from consideration. He has only shown that it could be
first century yet has not adduce any evidence to show that it could
not be later.
Peterson critiqued the technical journal article. The book is written for
popular consumption but contains good photographs of the papyrus as well
as 7Q5, the Dead Sea Scroll scrap which he and O'Callaghan identify as
Mark 6:52-53.
Stephen Carlson
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