Via The Amateur Exegete, newly added to the blogroll here based on something I saw at the Nazi-mods biblical subreddit, I saw the following video from Walsh about dating the gospels:
And yes, she makes that statement in quotes in the header at the start of the video.
First, ugh on multiple accounts.
Regular readers here know I have less and less regard for Ehrman each new book he writes, so that's one ugh.
Second, if you're an academic with a solid background yourself, why would you place yourself on some other academic's "team"?
Third and biggest ugh?
Is Bart Ehrman now a "brand"? Just shoot me.
Per her comments, where she begins with what she claims is the current consensus in the scholarship.
First, with Mark, she doesn't allow for a "Cross Gospel" or other written material.
On Matthew, is it really a "consensus" that he wrote at 80 CE? Not from what I've read.
Luke at 90? Again not what I've heard.
John? Early second. And, sorry, the "scraps of papyrus" aren't guaranteed to be from the current John. Could be from an earlier edition, the Egerton Gospel, or something else.
Then, her dating.
First, she claims Mark is post-Jewish War entirely. Her "no-temple Judaism" claim doesn't float me, and it ignores the truncated version of the "apocalypse" in Mark vs other synoptics.
But, in her snippet, she offers nothing more detailed on her dating vs "the consensus" on the other two synoptics or John.
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Back to that Bart Ehrman brand. Yes, she stans for his Biblical Studies Academy. Flaks for it at the end of the video. Has Bart's mugshot icon in the top left of the video.
Barf me.
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