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Mr. Campbell's books and comments were brilliant. As for Mr. Plaud wishing Jesus had had a scribe following him, I am puzzled by the comment. It was standard practice for Second Temple Jewish students to carry around wax tablets and jot down important statements by their teachers. Good books on the subject: Gymnastics of the Mind, Torah in the Mouth, and

Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine

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Try reading the Poem of the Man-God

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Fitzmyer’s view is dated. It reflects the late 20th century scholarly view. Read Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Bauckham, The Case Against Q by Goodacre, and The Case for Jesus by Pitre. The Gospels were written much earlier than the last generation of biblical scholars proposed. Perhaps the HS did inspire the authors to accurately record the words and deeds of Jesus? This of course accords with Dei Verbum, which states: “Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven.”

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