More than you ever wanted to know. . . .

[Karl Trappe <trappe@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU>]

Thanks, I found it enlightening, and interesting.  Karl


> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:41:30 -0600
> From: "Sr. Margaret Clarke" <mclarke@CSS.EDU>
> Subject: More than you ever wanted to know. . . .
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> about biblical scholarship.    (Well, you guys started it!)
>
> Although a lot of amateur theologians have spent a great deal of effort
> trying to find astronomical events correlating to those mentioned in the NT,
> most serious scripture scholars believe that the events recounted in the
> infancy narratives of MT and LK are not historical (the census, the star of
> Bethlehem, the visit of the wise ones, the massacre of the innocents, etc.)
> but allegorical.  There is plenty written about this.
>
> As to the "eclipse" mentioned in LK 23:45--Luke is the only synoptic author
> to use the actual word "eclipse".  MT and MK say only that the sun was
> "darkened" from noon to 3 p.m. (obviously not an eclipse).  The received
> version of Luke says "tou heliou eklipontos" but according to the footnote
> in
> my Greek NT there are lots of mss of Luke which only mention "darkening" of
> the sun.
>
> Sorry if I have stepped on any literalist toes,
>
> Margaret J. Clarke, OSB
> Physics Department
> College of St. Scholastica
> Duluth MN 55811
> mclarke@css.edu

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