Solving the GHeb Question

I decided to finally resolve the GHeb components of the HSH, and spent some time doing so.  When I was done, I realized I had some good material for a talk or an article, so I won't be posting it :)  Instead, I will just post the resulting diagram, as I'll need it to move forward with my next post:

I added an arrow back from the Didache to canonical GMk, but colored it grey to indicate my ambivalence about it.  I am simply of two minds about this--Did 16 has such a surprising number of connections with Mark's Little Apocalypse that I have a hard time attributing to oral traditions.

Next up will be the promised material on parsimony.

Preliminaries, and a new diagram

I have little time this week, unfortunately, to devote the attention I need to the question of the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics (though I have already drafted some comments), but I did have time to put together a new HSH diagram.  Here it is:

On Thomas and the Gospels

The session on Thomas Among the Gospels at the 2012 SBL Annual Meeting was lively and informative, or at least I found it so.  It has also spurred new thinking on my part about one corner of the Hyper-Synoptic Hypothesis, so it was even more productive than I expected.

Some Hurried Words on SBL

Haven't had much time to blog amidst travel and socializing all week, so these notes I've jotted down are the best I can provide.

Brief Post on the Forthcoming Secret Mark Book

Travel and socializing has taken up most of my time this week, but I hope to have some more about SBL Chicago soon, especially on the Gospel of Thomas session (which merits a post of its own).  In the meantime, I would be remiss if I did not mention the forthcoming volume on the York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium of last year, Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? with Tony Burke as editor:

http://www.tonyburke.ca/apocryphicity/2012/11/16/secret-gospel-of-mark-in-debate/

Please do buy it when it comes out!  It will be a very informative volume.

Gathercole on GTh

I opened Gathercole's The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas expecting a formidable challenge to the Hyper-Synoptic Hypothesis. Instead, I discovered that Gathercole's thesis and the HSH hardly speak to each other at all.  And where they do, they actually agree.

Synoptic Solutions at SBL

I will be attending the SBL Annual Meeting in Chicago this weekend. It's my first SBL conference and I'm a little excited :)