Four Different Ways of Reporting Time

Today I begin a new series of short episodes on New Testament reliability. These episodes will highlight a concept or issue in this area. This first episode discusses the reporting of time order or chronology. I distinguish four different ways that one might report time. 1) You state or imply a time and get it right. 2) You state or imply a time and get it wrong by honest error. 3) You state or imply a time that you know is contrary to fact. (I call this dyschronological narration.) 4) You don't really intend to state or imply a time, though someone might misunderstand and think you are doing so. (I call this achronological narration.)  

I'll be doing a short series on the Temple cleansing in John and in the Synoptics. This discussion of time is intended to be helpful in general and also as a prelude to that. Did John "move" the Temple cleansing, as many scholars say he did? And what would that mean?  

This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube Sep 25, 2020.

My book, The Mirror or the Mask, goes into these issues in more detail. You can buy it on Amazon either in Kindle or paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Mask-Liberating-Gospels-Literary/dp/1947929070/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mirror+or+the+mask&qid=1600272214&sr=8-1