From: "Stevan Davies" <miser17@epix.net>
To: crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com
Date:          Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:24:14 +0000
Subject:       Re: critique of Stevan Davies Neotestamentica article 1
Reply-to: miser17@epix.net


> Therefore, granting Stevan's structural connection between Th13 and Mk8:27-33,
> I am struck by an even more striking similarity in the Matthean parallel.
> Positing that Mark used Thomas is more trouble than it is worth -- it does
> not present a clean explanation of Matthew's version under Markan priority.
> Stephen Carlson

[I hope this reply isn't a duplicate of one that I tried, but 
probably failed, to mail earlier]

1. I assume with some citation of external argumentation that Thomas
is independent.
2. I assume that Matthew is dependent on Mark.
3. Therefore when Matthew happens to revise Mark in a way that can
remind one of Thomas this is simply irrelevant.
4. I am unable to argue cases 1 and 2  thoroughly in each article I 
write.

Steve