Subject: "Interaction" (was: Re: Thoughts of GosThom) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:16:18 GMT From: "Mark Goodacre" Organization: University of Birmingham To: crosstalk@info.harpercollins.com On 30 Sep 98 at 19:26, Stevan Davies wrote: > I don't think I'll let you get away with this. What do you mean by > "interaction?" I know what "derived" and "used" mean. I do not know > what "interaction" means. If I say that Matthew interacted with Mark, I mean that he was influenced by Mark and that he also influenced, changed, re-worked the materials he found there. Likewise oral traditions -- he interacted with them in that he was influenced by them and he reworked them. And so on with Luke. I prefer the term to "use of ", "derived from" etc. because they are more wooden. The term is particularly appropriate when discussing the oral tradition because it is clear that the Gospel writers not only changed oral traditions (influenced them by writing their Gospels) but also were changed by them. SBL is going to be at Walt Disney World so let's have a Disney analogy. Disney interacted with the Aladdin story in producing the Aladdin film. They were influenced by the Aladdin story, on which they were in some ways dependent, but they also changed it substantially in their retelling and, subsequently, have influenced many future retellings. Look now at the non-Disney Aladdins, which are still dependent on non-Disney versions but which are often strongly influenced by the characters, imagery and story-line of the Disney version. Mark ------------------------------------------- Dr Mark Goodacre mailto:M.S.Goodacre@bham.ac.uk Dept. of Theology Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7512 University of Birmingham Fax: +44 (0)121 414 6866 Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom Homepage: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre World Without Q: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/q