Episode 103 - An Anatomy of a Discrepancy

Show Notes
The inconsistencies between the two NT narratives of Judas Iscariott’s death has long been a ‘poster child’ of bible contradictions.  We are prompted to cover it by an excellent video recently released by CJ Cornthwaite who suggests the actual reasons for the differences between the narratives.  We discuss CJ’s work and try to complement it by digging deeper into: the sport of harmonisation, the third account of the death given by Papias, the OT allusions and a surprising feature of the bible translations.  
Links:
The video recently released by CJ Cornthwaite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6GctdghpQ
 
The article by Rendel Harris on the failure of harmonization:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/477430
 
A link for the Papias text:
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/tag/judas/
 
The legend of Ahiquar and the death of Nadan:

https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe264.htm 

Audrey Conrad on the OT allusions, bible refs: Ps. 41:9, John 13:18 & 2Samuel 17:23
in "The Fate of Judas" (Toronto Journal of Theology [7] 1992)
 
How to look at the Acts version of the death in all English translations:

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Acts%201%3A18

(search in the page for ‘hang’)
 
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