Word: manns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CRIME STORY (NBC). The two-hour premiere episode was a fierce and stylish update of The Untouchables. Succeeding shows have lost some originality and flair, but this latest series by Producer Michael Mann (Miami Vice) still makes most other cop shows look like wimps...
...that consensus faces a spirited challenge. The latest installment of the Anchor Bible, a new study by C.S. Mann, a respected Gospel expert, boldly challenges Mark's precedence as "at best debatable, and at worst indefensible." If Mann is correct, Matthew would be restored as the probable first among equals. The world of biblical scholarship thus appears headed for another round in an old and sometimes heated controversy...
...Anchor Bible volume is the latest in Doubleday's distinguished series of new translations and line-by-line studies of all the biblical books. When completed, the set will consist of 65 volumes by 46 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish experts. Mann's 715-page analysis took nine years to complete. An Anglican clergyman, the author was a Bible professor and dean at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore from 1968 until his 1983 retirement. He is best known as co-author of a 1971 Anchor Bible volume on the Gospel of Matthew...
Influenced by scholarly skepticism about Mark's priority, Mann decided to examine particularly the ways in which the three Gospels differ about the order of events in Jesus' life. Where such differences exist, Mann shows, Mark rarely departs significantly from Matthew or Luke. There is agreement in most cases between the accounts in Mark and Matthew and, less frequently, between Mark and Luke. To Mann, that is strong evidence that Mark's Gospel derives from the other two. In addition, where Mark and Matthew coincide, both narratives are usually very similar in substance. One of many examples, Mann notes...
...Mann, the most convincing explanation for these patterns is that Matthew and Luke clearly preceded Mark. Although he does not endorse either as being the first Gospel writer, the implicit result of his study is to restore Matthew to the primacy he once held in biblical studies. Mann's belief in fact is that Mark wrote a digest that combines the events of Luke and Matthew...