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| Name | Papias and Earliest Gospel Traditions | Dr. Richard C. Miller #gospel #jesus #theology #bible |
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| Video Discription | Dr. Miller, author of Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity between classical antiquity and the social origins of earliest Christianity. His published work focuses on the mythological roots of the New Testament Gospel portraitures of Jesus, the sacralized founding emblem of the Christian religion. https://independent.academia.edu/RichardMiller140 When we read Papias (preserved in fragmentary form in Eusebius, EH 3.39), we find a messy description of earliest cultic "gospel" traditions. Circa 100 C.E., he composed a (since lost) five-book work titled Guide to the Master’s Sayings. Assuming his achieved prominence within nascent Christian communities even to undertake such a project and have it survive and quoted for centuries, we may surmise that Papias’s proximal acquaintance with these early story-telling communities began quite a bit prior to his published work, that is, in the late first century. He claims oral tradition as his preferred source for the work, namely, from his primary informant, the famed John the Elder (likely author of the Apocalypse of the New Testament), who was at that time an aged man but not himself a recognized eyewitness to the historical Jesus. Papias thus had none of the originary apostles as his source for the work. Papias complains about many poor, verbose, or otherwise spurious sources, many of which apparently circulating in written form indeed that early. So, Papias claims to be passing along third-hand stories by traditional succession: Jesus → Disciples → Elders → Papias → Guide to the Master’s Sayings Jesus → Peter → Mark → canonical Mark → Papias → Guide to the Master’s Sayings (sources) → Aristion → (written gospel narratives) → Guide to the Master’s Sayings Jesus → Matthew → Logia (Aramaic) → (bad Greek translation) → Guide to the Master’s Sayings Papias knew of several poor Greek translation attempts related to Matthew’s Aramaic Logia. We may assume that he chose what he considered to be the best of those to which he had physical access to be one of his sources for the Guide. He appeared to signify Mark for its apostolic / cultic authority-line through Peter, and he valued Matthew’s Logia for its presumed preferable story sequencing. Given that we now observe clear source dependency in canonical Matthew with prior Mark, we may deduce that canonical Matthew was a later Greek composite of a poor(er) translation of the Logia and Mark, though likely more or less true to the sequence given in the Logia, and, as such, titled "Gospel according to Matthew" (as bearing that Matthean legacy). Of the canonical Gospels, therefore, Papias at 100 C.E. knew only of Mark. Such findings push the terminus a quo of canonical Matthew out to 100 C.E. or even later, given that by the time of Papias, it had either not existed or not had become recognized as such. Indeed, I am not the first to note that this bare observation pushes the composition dates for John and Luke out past 110 as well. Beyond Mark's legend-laden work, Papias knew of diverse oral stories, Aristion’s narratives, and several poor Greek translations of Matthew’s Logia. I would not tend to see Matthew’s Aramaic Logia as merely “conjectural”; Papias could not likely have gotten away with the comment that “several (‘each’ seems to imply more than two) translated it to the best of their ability,” had such a document never existed behind those (perceived "botched," and thus highly divergent) translation attempts known to Papias and the broader communities. |
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