Magnetic field indices derived
from synoptic magnetograms of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, i.e. Magnetic Plage Strength Index (MPSI) and Mt. Wilson Sunspot Index (MWSI), are used to study the effects of surface magnetism on total solar irradiance variability during solar cycles 21, 22 and 23.
Pallé & Butler (2002a) extended this work, by constructing a compilation of trends
from synoptic - scale regional cloud and sunshine observations over the past 150 years.
Monthly data derived
from synoptic reports transmitted over the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) are not as reliable as CLIMAT type monthly reports.
I became very familiar with the work of Mikhail Budyko, who essentially changed the approach
from synoptic climatology to energy budget climatology.
Norris, J.R., and S.F. Iacobellis, 2005: North pacific cloud feedbacks inferred
from synoptic - scale dynamic and thermodynamic relationships.
«We arrive at the same dating if we reflect that Paul himself had already received such pieces of the community tradition as were passed on to him, and that one of these pieces, that relating to the Lord's Supper, I Cor 11:23 ff., exhibits precisely the type of narrative that we know
from the Synoptic Gospels.
The chapter opens with two familiar stories
from the synoptic Gospels: the feeding of the multitude (a story so important that it appears six times in the four Gospels) and Jesus walking on the water.
Beginning with the New Testament apart
from the synoptic gospels, he points out that it is absolutely remarkable how small a role the earthly Jesus plays in the tradition.
Instead of thinking of the environmental impact of humans as a long list of components, we get a much better picture
from a synoptic approach.
1 John differs significantly
from the synoptic gospels in theme, content, time duration, order of events, and style.
for here we have a gospel radically different
from the synoptic gospels.
When it comes to the issue of clustering material, Crossan can include in one complex, for example, Jesus» words
from the synoptic Gospels about becoming like little children and his word to Nicodemus about being born again from the Gospel of John.
This section also begins with two miracles
from the synoptic tradition, and proceeds to a discourse based on them.
Furthermore, whatever was the case with his «Messianic consciousness,» Jesus, in so far as we know
him from the Synoptic tradition, did not summon his disciples to have faith in Christ.
The chapter opens with two familiar stories
from the synoptic Gospels: the feeding of the multitude (a story so important that it appears six times in the four Gospels) and Jesus walking...
as in, Why is John different
from the synoptics?..
Not exact matches
In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues
from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the
synoptics.
In the
Synoptic Gospels the account of Jesus» calling of his first disciples
from among Galilean fishermen belongs to the paranormal or unexplained.
The process continues until a
synoptic judgment is reached, accounting for every item in the universe prehended by that occasion
from its perspective (PR 44f / 71).3
In the
synoptics the terrible sayings of Christ the Tiger far outnumber the words of mercy
from the sweet and gentle Jesus.
Familiarity with stories of cures by similar methods in Jewish and pagan literature may have influenced the tradition of this miracle, so different
from Jesus» usual practice in the
Synoptic narratives.
Because of the common material in the first three gospels and because the writers look at Jesus
from the same point of view, these gospels are known as the «
synoptic» gospels.
Apart
from the Passion narrative, the various incidents recorded in the
synoptic gospels are only loosely connected and probably the links have been supplied by the evangelists.
Each of the
synoptic Gospels requires a year, with bits filled out each year
from John's Gospel.
In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the
synoptic tradition tends to differ both
from Judaism and
from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».
In the
Synoptic Gospels the framework of the narrative is in a measure provided by the movement of the Lord
from Galilee to Jerusalem,
from life to death.
It can be seen
from the above that there are real differences between the
synoptic tradition on the one hand and the remainder of the New Testament on the other, as far as the usage of Kingdom of God is concerned.
and it has two of the hallmarks of the differences between the
synoptic tradition and Judaism and the early Church respectively, which we have argued are derived
from the teaching of Jesus: a use of Kingdom of God in reference to the eschatological activity of God (S. Aalen, ««Reign» and «House»...», NTS 8, 229ff.
We speak of the first three Gospels as the
Synoptic Gospels because this word means «seen
from one view,» and there are great similarities in them.
Many of the books of the Bible, including the
Synoptic Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke,
from which much of our knowledge of the words and deeds of Jesus is derived — are compilations
from earlier manuscripts and fragments.
Yet if the record in the
Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look upon sin as an enveloping state of evil resulting
from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.
It can be clearly seen in the Gospel of John, which is so different
from the earlier,
synoptic gospels.
Note the difference in the Johannine explanation
from the explanation given in the
synoptics.
then there is little to keep us
from affirming that he could have easily said it of himself, even though this kind of self - description is rare in the
synoptic gospels.
In another sense the future event (which the
synoptics emphasized more than John does) is merely a completion of the movement
from sin to forgiveness, unbelief to belief, that is going on here and now, in the person and presence of the Son of man (5:27), Jesus himself.
If we didn't have the
synoptics, wd we not have a significantly different portrait of Jesus
from John... closer to Paul's cosmic Christ?
My point is that a close reading suggests a multiplicity of ideas and beliefs that we are priviliged to witness while it's under construction, the Jerusalem controversy being one good example.Furthermore, the fact that we're able to understand that each of the
synoptics significantly differ
from each other and we can observe contrast and similiarity between them and John's gospel, as well as Paul's letters suggests a process that speaks loudly of how religious narrative develops in communities that seek the meaning of the «core events».
Try to extract it
from the words recorded in the
Synoptic Gospels as spoken by him, and nearly everything else goes with it.
We should ignore every New Testament teaching that does not come directly
from Yehoshua, and that is anything that is contained in any of the books of the New Testament outside of the first five (the four
Synoptic Gospels plus the Acts of the Apostles).
You had me till the last sentence «We should ignore every New Testament teaching that does not come directly
from Yehoshua, and that is anything that is contained in any of the books of the New Testament outside of the first five (the four
Synoptic Gospels plus the Acts of the Apostles).»
Cf. Elizabeth Boyden Howes, «Analytic Psychology and the
Synoptic Gospels,» Intersection and Beyond (1971), p. 152; available
from the Guild for Psychological Studies, 2230 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, California 94115.
Against this latter argument there is one decisive factor: the fact that the «eyewitnesses» would have had to be quite different in interest and concern
from any men whose influence we can trace in the
synoptic tradition.
This can not be dismissed as a passing reference, for all three of the
Synoptic Gospels give an extended account of these woes and warnings after which the Son of man will come with power and great glory to gather his elect
from the four winds, and the kingdom will come.
In his History of the
Synoptic Tradition, we find him accepting an authentic «such sayings as arise
from the exaltation of an eschatological mood», oor, «sayings which demand a new disposition of mine», 49.
These sayings have been chosen
from among the residue of logia which survives the extensive, and brilliant, investigation of «Jesus as the teacher of wisdom» by R. Bultmann in his History of the
Synoptic Tradition (pp. 69 - 105).
Neither this version nor the one in the
synoptic tradition tells us anything about the views of the afterlife held by the rabbis and Jesus respectively; those details are supplied
from -LRB-?
Rabbinic Judaism has a respect for the text and content of that which was being passed on, and in this respect is absolutely different
from the freely creative nature of the
synoptic tradition.
We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the
synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back
from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.
The major source, the
synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke), contains a great deal of teaching material ascribed to Jesus, and it turns out to be precisely that: teaching ascribed to Jesus and yet, in fact, stemming
from the early Church.
Still another factor to be adduced in a consideration of the nature of the
synoptic gospel tradition is the success with which this tradition has been approached
from the viewpoint of its exhibiting the theological concerns of the evangelists.