RE: What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?
April 19, 2017 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2017 at 9:18 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 18, 2017 at 10:06 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It also doesn't follow, that just because there are similarities that one is copied or derived from the other.
When stories are borrowed, they are written to describe events that occurred long before but incorporate factual elements inconsistent with the period described. Unlike this, there is good evidence to suggest that the OT accounts where written within or very close to the events described. First there is a correspondence between names used in the biblical text and naming conventions found in outside contemporary sources. The second reason has to do with the price of goods. The few times prices for goods are given in the bible they also generally correspond with the prices and forms of payment found in outside contemporary sources. I'm sure with a little digging I can find those papers somewhere in my library. I send them to you when I find them. I'm sure you will find them interesting.
