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[Ignacio Moreno]

I think that we are going a lil out couurse here. But that the scholars had
said that Matthew and Luke are based on Mark and the Q document, doesn't
mean that they are fanfics of it.

About the Old Testament, if I remember it correctly, it had been based in
oral sources, so...

El 20/8/2015 11:39, "Taper Wickel" <taper at waxwolf.com> escribió:
>
>
> On 19 Aug 2015, at 22:58, Shadow Wolf <shadowolf3400 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ...
>
> > The Bible is probably a longer example - the New Testament obviously
builds
> > on the Old Testament, and even within the New Testament, Mark appears
to be
> > based on ("fanfic of") some older Greek sources, Matthew and Luke are
based
> > on Mark and the Q document, and John is primarily based on Luke. Dante's
> > Inferno is clearly Biblical fanfiction, Milton's Paradise Lost and
Paradise
> > Regained build on that, and some more modern Christian authors build
> > further (e.g. LeHaye and Jenkins' "Left Behind" series, base primarily
on
> > Darby's interpretation of Revelation, but with definite traces of
Milton).
> > And on ff.net, you will find Left Behind fanfiction...
>
> Even in the Old Testament, as far back as Genesis there’s some clear signs
> of fan-ficcery going on, the same stories being told and re-told.  Just as
> one example, at one point in the wanderings of the patriarch Abraham, he
and
> his wife Sarah are guests of the current Pharaoh. Abraham, afraid that
> someone will get the hots for Sarah and kill him in order to take her,
claims
> that Sarah is his sister. Pharaoh himself is indeed smitten with Sarah and
> snags her, but God sends a plague and Abraham admits Sarah is his wife.
> Pharaoh gives her back, gives Abraham some lovely parting gifts, and kicks
> him out of the kingdom.
>
> A couple chapters later in Genesis (scholars say these two segments are
> from different source documents), Abraham is in the realm of King
Abimelech,
> and the whole thing happens again.  God gives Abimelech a dream,
informing him
> that Sarah is Abraham’s; Abimelech cusses Abraham out, loads him up with
> presents, and sends them both off.
>
> Still later, when Abraham and Sarah’s son Isaac has grown up and gotten
> married to his wife Rebekah, Genesis has them wander around a bit, and
they go
> right straight back to King Abimelech. Introducing themselves, of course,
as
> brother and sister, they obtain hospitality, but there isn’t time for
anybody
> to kidnap Rebekah before one of the guards reports seeing the two of them
canoodling.
> Abimelech kicks them out, along with the by-now customary parting gifts.
It is not
> recorded whether Abimelech notices the similarities of the two events
(which
> happened to him!), nor whether he figures out that this is a
multigenerational
> scam.
>
> So, if we consider the visit to Pharaoh as the “original” story, the
first visit
> to King Abimelech is clearly an alt-universe fic, setting the same
characters in
> a a similar story in new settings.  And then the Isaac/Rebekah story is a
> next-generation fanfic of that.  And all that is just three
(nonconsecutive)
> chapters!
>
> We also must reach the conclusion that Sarah was one smoking’ hot
octogenarian.
>
> Taper.
>
> (Though I’m referring to these bible stories rather flippantly, I do not
mean to
> offend or to to attack anyone’s faith.)
>
> --
> Taper Wickel.
>
>
>
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