Document shared: Justin's Gospel.

I'm sharing a new document for Patrons, but before going into that I wanted to mention that listeners Todd, Dan, and others have mentioned the possibility of a Q&A Bonus Show. It seems like a good idea so if anyone has any questions they would like to be answered, they can post them in the comments or message me on here, and once I have a critical mass I will do a Q&A show.

In the next Episode, which is 90% prepared but which will come out next week since Tom (Pompeii Grey) is traveling over the weekend, I'll talk more about my vision for the Patreon as a "Community of Readers" where I can share some of my findings and others can pick them up and run with it. To that end, I began sharing some documents from my notes for Patrons. This month I'm sharing my massive "reconstruction" of Justin Martyr's "gospel material," superimposed onto Matthew's Gospel. 

This is an extraordinary complex document so I'll explain some things about it:

1. If you just want to see the Gospel correspondences, scroll down to where you see Matt 1:1 and go from there.

2. For anything that wasn't explicitly or implicitly referenced by Justin, I've "ensmallened" the Gospel text (new word coinage) so that one can see at a glance what Justin did NOT cite from the Synoptics.

3. Under each verse where Justin has a correspondence with the Synoptics, I've pulled in the parallels and listed those as well.

If you notice, I also added Luke's genealogy (after Matt 1), Luke 1 and 2 (after Matthew 2), as well as Luke 24 (after Matt 28). If you look at those sections, you can easily see the divergences between the Synoptics and whatever source Justin was using. It is precisely in the Special Material, and particularly the Lukan Special Material, where his divergences are greatest.

In here you can also see how I talk to myself in note format, and also how I didn't finish tying up some loose ends in here; that's because the shows on Justin's Gospel will be multi-part so I'm giving myself time to, e.g., check the 17th item under Apocrypha, for example.