Robert Lisle Lindsey

Robert L. Lindsey
Born (1917-08-16)August 16, 1917
Norman, Oklahoma
Died May 31, 1995(1995-05-31) (aged 77)
Occupation Academic Pastoral
Spouse(s) Margaret Lutz[1]

Robert Lisle Lindsey, also known as Bob Lindsey (1917–1995), founded together with David Flusser the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research.

He spend most of his adult life as pastor in the Holy Land. He is especially known for pastoring the Narkis Street Baptist Church in Jerusalem. His biography has recently been published under the name One Foot In Heaven: The Story of Bob Lindsey of Jerusalem.[1] While rescuing an Arab orphan from the dangerous Israel-Jordan border in 1960 Lindsey was seriously injured after stepping on a land mine which resulted in the loss of his left foot.

He was an Israeli New Testament scholar. He was a contributor to the Jerusalem Perspective, an academic journal of a consortium of Israeli scholars, including Jews, Christians, and others, of Jesus Research, the Quest for the Historical Jesus.

Contributions to scholarship

Lindsey is the author of A Hebrew Translation of The Gospel of Mark. The book is notable for its solution to the Synoptic Problem. He argues the existence of a Proto-Mark gospel ("Ur Markus"), which was a highly literal translation from an originally Hebrew source into Greek, which he calls the Proto-Narrative. The text of the Gospel of Luke is the most faithful to and best preserves this Proto-Narrative. Especially in the "minor agreements" between Matthew and Luke against Mark, it is evident that Mark deviates paraphrastically from the Proto-Narrative. Mark's paraphrases Graecize the text, including many phrases that are "non-Hebraic", being common in Greek but lacking an idiomatic counterpart in Hebrew. Luke knows this Mark-like Hebraic Proto-Narrative, but does not know the Gospel of Mark as we know it today.[2]

While it is easy to show that Luke knows a Proto-Mark (which happens to be closer to Hebrew) and not Mark, Lindsey speculates further with more surprising conclusions, and argues for Lucan priority. Thus, the first gospel texts are in Hebrew. These were translated into Greek as the Proto-Narrative and the collection of sayings, often called Q. Luke knows PN and Q. Lindsey argues Mark knows both PN and Luke, as well as other New Testament documents, including Acts, James, and Paul's Colossians 1&2, Thessalonians 1&2, and Romans. Then Matthew knows both PN and Mark (but not Luke). Matthew is faithful to both PN and Mark and weaves their texts together, thus often agrees with Luke through PN against Mark.

Despite the surprising claim that Mark depends partially on Luke, Lindsey emphasizes that his solution to the Synoptic Problem agrees substantially with the majority who hypothesize Marcan priority, since this Proto-Narrative is identical with "Ur-Markus", and that all three synoptic gospels - Luke, Mark, and Matthew - depend directly on the Proto-Narrative.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Kenneth R. Mullican Jr. and Loren C. Turnage, One Foot In Heaven: The Story of Bob Lindsey of Jerusalem, Frederick, Maryland: PublishAmerica, 2005.
  2. ↑ A Hebrew Translation of the Gospel of Mark: A Greek-Hebrew Diglot with English Introduction, Second Edition, Jerusalem: Dugit, 1973

Bibliography

During his life he published a few books and articles, namely (this list may not be exhaustive):

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