Quick Links to Viklund-Hurtado Exchange

Roger Viklund and Larry Hurtado had a brief exchange online and I thought I'd link to it:

Hurtado 1
Viklund 1
Hurtado 2
Viklund 2

I don't have much to add, except to say that while my opinions about To Theodore are largely in sympathy with Viklund's, I have to say that Hurtado re-states some important issues about provenance/provenience with respect to the letter.  It's just that I think these issues are in no way insurmountable.

I do part with Viklund, however, regarding whether the letter is authentically Clementine.  It may be, but it may not be, and as I've stated before I currently lean towards attributing it to a student of either Clement or Origen writing most likely sometime in the early third century.


I haven't been blogging as often as I'd like; been busy with other projects and activities.  I've also been busy investigating some more potential parallels between GTh, GMk, and Q/GPet, especially Logion 55 and 101.   It's been truly fascinating, and I think I now have a more definite position on the compositional history of GTh, and on what its original layer contained (and what it didn't contain; specifically, it didn't contain the language of "hate").  Someday I'll blog on that, but I need to get back to linking original GMk with the Signs Gospel first.  That will require some significant time to finish putting together and I honestly haven't had it recently, nor am likely to until next month.  So what blogging I do will be fairly light for now.