Thu Apr 4 18:33:52 1996

From majordom  Thu Apr  4 18:33:52 1996
Return-Path: 
Received: by scholar.cc.emory.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4)
	id AA24976; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:33:52 +0500
Message-Id: <199604042330.SAA18886@r02n05.cac.psu.edu>
X-Sender: wlp1@email.psu.edu
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 18:21:50 -0500
To: tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
From: wlp1@psu.edu (William L. Petersen)
Subject: Gergesenes and tc
Content-Length: 1532
Sender: owner-tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: tc-list@scholar.cc.emory.edu

On April 4, Don Wilkins asked:


>My problem of course is that I see no way to reject 
>Gadarenes/Gerasenes using good tc principles, so that the 
>temptation is to assume there must have been a territory on the 
>shore that was known as the land of the Gerasenes, which 
>overlapped that of the Gadarenes. I should add that I hold to 
>inerrancy, so I cannot accept Dalman's conclusions that the synoptic 
>writers were mistaken. Does anyone have any thoughts about this 
>particular problem, and about the more general problem of 
>reconciling biblical archaeology/geography with textual criticism? I 
>don't see how we could simply let current archaeological research 
>dictate our choices for readings in relevant passages.

Without getting into the various issues which you raise, which might direct
your selection in a certain direction, you might find an article by Tjitze
Baarda useful:  "Gadarenes, Gerasenes, Gergesenes and the 'Diatessaron'
Traditions".  It first appeared in _Neotestamentica et Semitica_ (FS Matthew
Black), edd. E. Ellis & M. Wilcox (Edinburgh:  T&T Clark, 1969), pp.
181-197;  it is reprinted in Baarda's own book of collected articles, titled
_Early Transmission of Words of Jesus.  Thomas, Tatian and the Text of the
New Testament_ (Amsterdam: VU Boekhandel/Uitgeverij, 1983), pp. 85-101.
Baarda is one of the preeminent textual critics at work today;  he is Dean
of Theology at the Free University in Amsterdam, and took his doctorate in
Semitic languages.

Petersen--Penn State University

Back