It is strange when even a (wisely) skeptical person on everything sounds dogmatic in his defense of the Markan priority, despite of the argument I have raised for argue the opposite.
Hence I wonder: what are the psychological motivations behind the hard-to-die Markan prioritists (assuming they are not religious people)?
I have found the following:
Hence I wonder: what are the psychological motivations behind the hard-to-die Markan prioritists (assuming they are not religious people)?
I have found the following:
- 1) Mere conservatorism;
- 2) a kind of horror vacui: objectively, the priority of a form of proto-Luke (*Ev) implies the recognition that we can't explain the earliest narrative by reducing all of it to allegory;
- 3) fear of adding fuel to a kind of conspiracy theory: how someway the idea that all the Canonical gospels are an anti-marcionite reaction is (wrongly) considered;
- 4) The implicit debunking of the specific pet theory cultivated by someone.
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:42 am