Strauss vs. Harmonization: Is Harmonization outdated?
The Lydia McGrew Podcast
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The Harmonizers of the Gospels
Johannes Ebrot published in 1845 a recipe for writing a life of Jesus like David Friedrich Strauss. This is satire and he shows how ridiculous Strauss's methods of artificial disharmonization would be if applied to other accounts. If the contradictions are really great you are then either silently to assume the identity of the two accounts or to seek to render this plausible by urging the points of similarity. In this way you can show a rich stock of contradictions. So now he's going to try to give an example of how this would work using a modern person named Kias. A meaning source A says Kias on a certain occasion met a carriage full of country people who were riding
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