Equitable Eclecticism

Stephen Carlson wrote the following three blogposts in December 2004. Currently they're only available on the Web Archive. To preserve them for posterity, I have copied and saved them below, in a collated format.

PART 1: Luke 2:2 and the Census
Web Archive link
Note: this particular blogpost had comments below it, so I also copied those over.

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James Snapp Jr. introduced me to the term “equitable eclecticism”, and I liked the phrase so much I made it the subtitle for my blog. When I use the phrase I mean it in a looser way that applies to everything generically, but in the most technical sense it refers to a method of biblical textual criticism. You can read more about equitable eclecticism in the... Read More