Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 07:19:14 -0700
From: Bob Schacht <Robert.Schacht@nau.edu>
To: E. Bruce Brooks <brooks@asianlan.umass.edu>,
    crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com
Subject: Re: Thomas/Q Project

At 06:05 AM 6/20/98 -0400, E. Bruce Brooks wrote:
>On: Thomas/Q Project
>In Response To: Bob Schacht's Summary of Voting
>From: Bruce
>
>I have been following the Thomas/Q Project with absorbing interest, and am
>grateful to Bob Schacht for his lucid summary . . . 
>
>. . . I find the data to be extraordinarily suggestive, and am preparing a
>query for general comment, but in the meantime, could Mark Goodacre (or
>Stevan Davies, or anybody else) state for me and perhaps for others: of
>what hypothesis was this project a test?...

Bruce,
Thanks for your useful summary of the motives for this project!

>
>...We know we're wiser, but what exactly have we learned?
>

I hope you're teasing us with this, for "knowing more" is a long way from "being wiser". Your summary will help re-focus us on what we were trying to learn.

Thanks!
Bob
"Is it not extraordinary to the point of being a miracle, that so loose
and ill-constructed a narrative in an antique translation of a dubious
text should after so many centuries still have power to quell and
dominate a restless, opinionated, overexercised and undernourished,
twentieth-century mind?"
Malcolm Muggeridge _Jesus Rediscovered_ (1969), writing about 
the KJV New Testament -