Mark Goodacre
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Oct 27, 2026
Eva MroczekGUEST
Scholars keep on kind of describing the jar as larger and larger and larger over time.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And, you know, I read two articles by Nicola Jency Lewis, Elizabeth Blount, and Mark Goodacre, who are each questioning the historical veracity of the Nagpamati story.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And they make really good points about how really uncovering the real providence, right, the historical facts of how these texts were found, taking away all of these trappings of storytelling, might in fact help us realize gain new insights into how the texts were deposited, how many of them were there, what they were used for in antiquity.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And that was a really good point.
Eva MroczekGUEST
Scholars keep on kind of describing the jar as larger and larger and larger over time.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And, you know, I read two articles by Nicola Jency Lewis, Elizabeth Blount, and Mark Goodacre, who are each questioning the historical veracity of the Nagpamati story.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And they make really good points about how really uncovering the real providence, right, the historical facts of how these texts were found, taking away all of these trappings of storytelling, might in fact help us recognize gain new insights into how the texts were deposited, how many of them were there, what they were used for in antiquity.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And that was a really good point.
Eva MroczekGUEST
Scholars keep on kind of describing the jar as larger and larger and larger over time.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And, you know, I read two articles by Nicola Jency Lewis, Elizabeth Blount, and Mark Goodacre, who are each questioning the historical veracity of the Nagpamati story.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And they make really good points about how really uncovering the real providence, right, the historical facts of how these texts were found, taking away all of these trappings of storytelling, might in fact help us realize gain new insights into how the texts were deposited, how many of them were there, what they were used for in antiquity.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And that was a really good point.
Eva MroczekGUEST
Scholars keep on kind of describing the jar as larger and larger and larger over time.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And, you know, I read two articles by Nicola Jensi Lewis, Nisabel Blount, and Mark Goodacre, who are each questioning the historical veracity of the Nagpamati story.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And they make really good points about how really uncovering the real providence, right, the historical facts of how these texts were found, taking away all of these trappings of storytelling, might in fact help us recognize gain new insights into how the texts were deposited, how many of them were there, what they were used for in antiquity.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And that was a really good point.
Eva MroczekGUEST
Scholars keep on kind of describing the jar as larger and larger and larger over time.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And, you know, I read two articles by Nicola Jency Lewis, Elizabeth Blount, and Mark Goodacre, who are each questioning the historical veracity of the Nagpamati story.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And they make really good points about how really uncovering the real providence, right, the historical facts of how these texts were found, taking away all of these trappings of storytelling, might in fact help us realize gain new insights into how the texts were deposited, how many of them were there, what they were used for in antiquity.
Eva MroczekGUEST
And that was a really good point.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
A third and final piece of evidence for Mark in priority is the phenomenon of editorial fatigue.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
In an important article by the New Testament scholar Mark Goodacre, Goodacre argues that the authors of Matthew and Luke sometimes grow fatigued in their rewriting of Mark.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
By this, he means these writers will make changes to Mark at the beginning of a story, but then lapse back into copying directly out of Mark as the story goes on.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
On a couple of occasions, this phenomenon results in inconsistencies in the rewritten version of the story.
Jeffrey RiddleGUEST
So that's the textbook.
Jeffrey RiddleGUEST
And then they're also reading Peter J. Williams' book, Can We Trust the Gospels?, And then this time, for the first time, I'm reading a new book by Mark Goodacre called John, the Fourth Synoptic Gospel.
Jeffrey RiddleGUEST
arguing that John not be understood as set apart from the first three gospels, but as intimately connected to them.
Jeffrey RiddleGUEST
And Goodacre is not an evangelical who teaches at Duke, but I'm more interested in just his argument.
Sam LeiperHOST
Carrier, and I'll put all the links in the description for you guys to check out Dr. Carrier's work.
Sam LeiperHOST
I also chatted with Professor Mark Goodacre, and he argues that Jesus portrayed in the Gospels.
Sam LeiperHOST
Yes, right.
Sam LeiperHOST
So if you think of John, it's largely a theological narrative or, you know, the other Gospels are a literary construction.
Megan CraigHOST
Today, we're tracking the dramatic evolution of Israel's god and his many names and tracing his evolution from a local tribal storm deity sharing a crowded pantheon into the universal singular creator of the universe.
Megan CraigHOST
I'm Megan Craig on the Bart Ehrman team, and I'm joined again by Hebrew Bible scholar, Dr. Joel Baden.
Megan CraigHOST
We also have a special segment today, hot take, where Joel shares a hot take.
Megan CraigHOST
So stick around for that.
8 MINS LATER
Joel BadenGUEST
So every time you read your Bible and you come across the thousands of times that the Bible says capital L Lord in the Hebrew Bible, that is a translation of God's proper name, which is Yahweh.
Joel BadenGUEST
probably.
Joel BadenGUEST
We don't actually know exactly how it was pronounced, but that is every scholar's best bet, or at least the thing that we've all agreed on.
Joel BadenGUEST
We don't know how it's pronounced, now I'm going to have to go into that, because in antiquity, you know, in early Judaism, it was decided really quite early that the divine name is too powerful to ever say out loud.
PaulogiaHOST
Respected scholars Simon Gathercole and Jacob Rodriguez give us a date range of 135 to 200 CE.
PaulogiaHOST
and Mark Goodacre argues for any date after 135, almost entirely after FBR's optimistic interpretation.
PaulogiaHOST
Goodacre and others conclude that the Gospel of Thomas is aware of the Bar Kokhba revolt of 135 CE, making that the earliest possible date.
PaulogiaHOST
Since the Gospel of Thomas is first quoted by others in 200-240 CE, it could easily be late 2nd century, which is why the experts allow this in their range.
PaulogiaHOST
It's possibly earlier than murder, but not definitively.
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