Young bucks on biblical subreddits pushing young bucks with bad scholarship; we're talking Alan Garrow, especially

The "trigger"? An OP claiming on an AcademicBiblcal a subReddit post about a British academic, Alan Garrow, claiming that the eruption of Vesuvius was the target, with VERY specific alleged terminus a quem/ad quo dates for the writing range of Revelation. Color me skeptical.

That's even more so since Alan Garrow also claims the first part of the Didache precedes even 1 Thessalonians. He gets there by saying this is the same as the "Jerusalem Council," which he claims actually happened and also claims that Acts 15 is paralleled by Galatians 2:1-10. Really? Pass.

Beyond this generally being off the wall? The Didache in general has a an extensive developmental history; see Kloppenborg, about 3/5 down the page, especially. Also see here, page 4 of main text for more on that, and the footnote explicitly referencing Garrow! It's "nice" to see that anything in a canonical book that upsets his theory applecart, he calls a later interpolation in that book.

Also, per Burton Mack at the bottom of the "Didache" link in the paragraph above, how much overlap the Didache group, or a group at some point in its editorial process, had with "Pauline" Christianity, "Markan" Christianity etc is debatable.

I get the feeling that some young bucks at AcademicBiblical are looking for young bucks in biblical scholarship who have one foot, at least, halfway in the Sokol hoax camp. And, Garrow's Sokol hoax is a Didache fetish. Go to his website. Revelation? See the Didache. Paul in the two letters above? See the Didache.

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By no means is everything there bad, though. There are several people in my general range of dating and editing ideas on both the New Testament and the Tanakh, which is to say, setting aside apologists, people who are in the left one-third of datings without being Dutch Radicals on the NT side or Copenhagians on the TNK side.

There are "apologists," or fundagelicals, there too. A few of them are goalpost shifters. A few others are karma whores. It is what it is.

Anyway, especially with doorknob knows what on the future of Twitter, it's a better alternative to Quora, though I haven't much hit political fora there yet; it's basically this and sports so far.