(March 6, 2015 at 6:30 pm)Nestor Wrote: I vote invite him. He's clearly knowledgeable in the field and takes a different position than our resident amateur historians. I'd like to see just how exactly they came to their contrary conclusions, assuming they are working with the same data.
Seems to me that he is trying to make excuses for why the gospels tell different stories.
Without interviewing the authors - difficult as we have no idea who the authors were - that seems like a pointless exercise. There is one original story: What is now known as gMark. He could not be bothered with a nativity story so later traditions grew up about it which were incorporated into the fanfics which are matty and luke.