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The Birthing of the New Testament: The Intertextual Development of the New Testament Writings (New Testament Monographs) Paperback – June 6, 2006

by Thomas L. Brodie (Author)

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Many are saying that the prevailing paradigm of New Testament origins is going nowhere. In its place, Brodie's stunning book invites us to suspend all 'knowledge' we already have about the history of the New Testament's development, and to be willing to entertain the following thesis. Everything hinges on Proto-Luke, a history of Jesus using the Elijah-Elisha narrative as its model, which survives in 10 chapters of Luke and 15 of Acts. Mark then uses Proto-Luke, transposing its Acts material back into the life of Jesus. Matthew deuteronomizes Mark, John improves on the discourses of Matthew. Luke-Acts spells out the story at length. Add the Pauline corpus, the descendant of Deuteronomy via the Matthean logia, and the New Testament is virtually complete. This is a totalizing theory, an explanation of everything, and its critics will be numerous. But even they will be hugely intrigued, and have to admit that Brodie's myriads of challenging observations about literary affinities demand an answer.

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688 pages
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English
Publisher

Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Publication date

June 6, 2006
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6.14 x 1.38 x 9.21 inches
ISBN-10

1905048661
ISBN-13

978-1905048663
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd (June 6, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 688 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1905048661
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1905048663
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.38 x 9.21 inches

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Kerry Shirts

and the reason why we need to REBEL about being dumbed down by our churches

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017

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Very difficult, very important, shut up, read, then re-read, and learn this. It is scholarly, quite dense, but it HAS TO BE. This is stellar scholarship, and not taught in any church. This is the meat, the reason scholarship is necessary, and the reason why we need to REBEL about being dumbed down by our churches. They are robbing us of the ability to learn for ourselves, and find truth using our own brains. Brodie is the perrrrrfect cure for that. This is medicine for the soul and mind. I actually have come away with a greater appreciation for the actual genius of the early Gospel authors, not what the churches teach us about them. It's a HUGE book, and very much well worth the money...

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Tom Dykstra

The best critique of oral tradition to be found anywhere

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2011

This is a landmark book in biblical studies, not so much because of its Proto-Luke hypothesis as because of its first 9 chapters that present and justify the author's methodology. These chapters are clearly and effectively argued, and they are extremely important because they undermine key parts of the paradigm subscribed to by most biblical scholars. Much of this has been argued elsewhere of course, but this is to my knowledge the most comprehensive and effectively argued attack on the idea of oral tradition that has yet been published anywhere, and it should be read by anyone who is inclined to take that idea seriously.

These nine chapters offer an account of the incredible variety of ways that people in the ancient world created new works of literature by copying old ones; they refute the idea that the Old Testament or New Testament were unique exceptions to this pattern; they create and defend a series of criteria that scholars can use to determine when one literary work is dependent on another; they provide a brief history explaining how the process of creating literary works worked in the ancient world; they refute the idea that the New Testament authors could have been so isolated that each could somehow write in complete ignorance of the others' works; and they reach a well-substantiated conclusion that much of the New Testament - even including the epistles of Paul -- was produced by a single far-flung community rather than by isolated individuals.

The remainder of the book presents Brodie's application of his methodology at some length, including his Proto-Luke hypothesis. I personally found this rather more of a mixed bag than the first nine chapters. In particular, Proto-Luke seems little different from Q or oral tradition insofar as it amounts to an attempt to explain by appealing to an unknown quantity for which there is actually no hard evidence. Nevertheless, this does not reflect negatively at all on Brodie's presentation of his methodology. The very fact of "authorial complexity" which he so forcefully defends in the first part of the book means that no criteria no matter how well thought out and applied will reliably tip the hand of an author who was not inclined to tip his hand.

The book is very long and is written largely by a scholar for scholars; nevertheless I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more about the foundations of biblical scholarship, especially with regard to the Gospels or attempts to find "the historical Jesus." At the very least, read the first nine chapters. Those chapters alone are worth the cost of the book. Regardless of whether you agree with everything you read there, when you're done you will be less inclined to blindly accept statements by other biblical scholars that are presented as fact, but are actually highly questionable.

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Clifford J. Stevens

A one sentence refutation

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2013

"The founder of the name (Christians) was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, in the reign of Tiberias."
Tacitus: Annals: 15:44

It is his conclusions about the Jesus of history and of the Four Gospels that is the issue. Not his brilliance in several esoteric fields of literary analysis.

Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska

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ADL

a wealth of information

Reviewed in France on January 30, 2021

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Very interesting book about the birthing of the New Testament, how the evangelists took verses and stories from the Old Testament to build new ones.

Some parallels are very strong but some feel forced too.
The problem with this book is that Brodie see long parallels between Luke / Acts and few books of the OT like 1-2 kings and few others.

He doesn’t mention the prophets and the psalms and i don’t think that Mark, Luke or Matthew wrote their gospels front to back with just one source like Brodie try to explain.

I would rather say that they use many sources and they mix it together. And the most important sources are the prophets and the psalms.

Overall, the book is interesting and i recommand despite its flaws.