Posted: Mar 25, 2019 9:19 am
RealityRules wrote:MS2 wrote:
Where? Where has 'parallel' been rigorously defined? Where has statistical analysis been done to show a particular number of parallels is significant. I bet anybody could take any two reasonably long texts coming from the same period and geographical area and find quite a few apparent 'parallels'
At least you're doing more than one hand-wave ...
22 parallels in common between two shortish passages would seem to be significant.
Multiply those two passages by hundreds more (mostly OT and NT parallels) ...
I'm looking forward to the hundreds of examples of parallels from any two texts selected at random.
I suppose this means we can't really know whether the Bible texts are even talking about the same Jesus.
