tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post3571994594073302047..comments2024-03-21T12:51:21.667-04:00Comments on Whisky Prajer: Palm Sunday, Explained(?)dpreimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09905531259256800022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-57577442836623640182017-04-14T08:10:30.177-04:002017-04-14T08:10:30.177-04:00I haven't checked, but would imagine this epis...I haven't checked, but would imagine this episode passes the smell test with the Jesus Seminar folks, for what that's worth, as it is a focal point in all four gospels including Mark (which is key). As for the donkey/colt business, I recall a friend regaling me of some inerrantist's line of argument on this matter boiling down to, "If there were two there was one." With pretzel logic like that, you can make just about anything inerrant, I suppose.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-67692182802918172112017-04-13T21:31:53.848-04:002017-04-13T21:31:53.848-04:00I was just recently reading Bart Ehrman's thou...I was just recently reading Bart Ehrman's thoughts on Palm Sunday in "Did Jesus Exist?". (If you'll forgive the digression. I know you were making a different point, but...)<br /><br />Bart Ehrman believes that Jesus did exist and that the Gospel stories have a historical basis. But some mythologizing took place along the way.<br /><br />Bart Ehrman is skeptical that the whole incident even took place. He doesn't think the Romans would have allowed it.<br /><br />I'm no scholar, but my own common sense tells me that it might have taken place. A spontaneous demonstration on some scale might have been hard for the Romans to prevent, and they got their revenge by the end of the week anyway.<br /><br />But more interestingly, read the account of Palm Sunday in the Gospel of Matthew. In Matthew, Jesus comes into Jerusalem riding two animals at once. This is because (according to Ehrman) Matthew missed the poetic intent of Zechariah's prophecy.<br /><br />See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.<br /><br />Matthew interprets this as two different animals, and so in Matthew's version Jesus rides both a donkey and a colt at once.Joel Swagmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948746083822200906noreply@blogger.com