[notes, 2 June 2013]
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I
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was up for a bit in the
morning, though I don’t quite recall the details. The main thing I remember is
getting sidetracked [from taking notes on Jeremiah Jones’ book on the canon] still
further into investigating Papias again to see if my position really holds
water. I read a couple of articles I’d downloaded earlier and looked at the
actual text. Nothing really changes my opinion that the works Papias refers to
as by Matthew and Mark have no connection with our modern gospels of Matthew
and Mark. His “Matthew” is a document in the “Hebrew” tongue, for example,
where our Matthew is in Greek. His “Mark” is a small collection of Peter’s
reminiscences of what Jesus said in did, not in order; ours is a complete
document, highly ordered, with no obvious connection to Peter. The simplest
explanation to my way of thinking is that Papias was not referring to our
documents at all, but to some lost early documents of unknown content and
purpose. Anyway, regardless of all this, I got tired somewhere in the dawn zone
and retired, still mulling over the Papias situation.
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