tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post3076197727394920502..comments2024-03-14T08:15:15.207-07:00Comments on CADRE Comments: Non Issues in the Lukan Birth Narrative -- Registration in BethlehemBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01967809861892681780noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-46006082995668832682009-02-08T16:39:00.000-08:002009-02-08T16:39:00.000-08:00Yes, Bailey is one of the best on this issue. His...Yes, Bailey is one of the best on this issue. His 1979 article in Near East Theological Review is more detailed. Before him, Pierre Benoit is also very good.Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-65203305606411853912009-02-08T10:19:00.000-08:002009-02-08T10:19:00.000-08:00Stephen,Sounds like fun. Seriously. I've been wo...Stephen,<BR/><BR/>Sounds like fun. Seriously. <BR/><BR/>I've been wondering why so many good scholars get so much wrong on these early parts of Luke and am coming to the conclusion that it is a somewhat ironic combination of 1) growing up with popularized Christmas nativities and stories about Jesus' birth, and 2) an overbroad reaction to Luke's perceived statements about Quirinius and the Laymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761410435140602771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-29508702921520272902009-02-08T05:10:00.000-08:002009-02-08T05:10:00.000-08:00I'm writing a paper on the so-called "inn" in Luke...I'm writing a paper on the so-called "inn" in Luke 2:7 and I'm trying to nail down the various interpretations.<BR/><BR/>Another thing that is going on is that if κατάλυμα in Luke 2:7 is misconstrued as "inn," then interpreters tend to think that this implies that Joseph could not have been a resident of Bethlehem, because otherwise he would have had a house there. That's Raymond Brown's Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-81690735014640432532009-02-07T22:09:00.000-08:002009-02-07T22:09:00.000-08:00That is an ambitious undertaking. Are you focusi...That is an ambitious undertaking. Are you focusing on all commentary or the more academic?<BR/><BR/>The Infancy Gospel of Matthew may have a relevant reference, though I don't have the resources to figure out if "native place" is innocuous or something akin to "ancestral home."<BR/><BR/><I>And it came to pass some little time after, that an enrolment was made according to the edict of Cæsar Laymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761410435140602771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-22471280258267268692009-02-07T19:10:00.000-08:002009-02-07T19:10:00.000-08:00I'm trying to establish exactly when and where thi...I'm trying to establish exactly when and where this idea that the census in Luke is an ancestral city census comes from.<BR/><BR/>It is already found in D. F. Strauss (1st ed. 1835; 4th ed. 1864; trans. George Eliot) p.155 who argued (without citation) that the census must have happened according to the Jewish custom, instead of the Roman custom. Olhausen (1830; trans. 1863) argued the same. OnStephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.com