Free Faith on Trial by Pamela Binnings Ewen

a personal qualifier that it is possible that this acceptance may have been based upon the fact that they had never questioned the tradition of the existence of an original Aramaic manuscript.
    63. See Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 38–39; but see Brown, Introduction to the New Testament, 210.
    64. “Fragments of Papias,” in Coxe, The Ante-Nicene Fathers , vol. 1, 155. Also see Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 35.
    65. Irenaeus, “Adversus haereses, III.I.i” (Euseb. H.E. V.8), in Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church , 28. Also see Robinson, Redating the New Testament , 110–11.
    66. Robinson, Redating the New Testament , 108.
    67. “Fragments from Cassiodorus” (a Latin translation by Cassiodorus of fragments of Clement of Alexandria on Comments on the First Epistle of Peter), in Coxe, The Ante-Nicene Fathers , vol. 2, 573. Also see: Robinson, Redating the New Testament , 109. In this quote from 1 Peter 5:13, the apostle also refers to his “son, Mark.”
    68. Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 35–36.
    69. Ibid., 37.
    70. C. H. Turner, “Marcian Usage,” Journal of Theological Studies , in Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 36.
    71. Bruce, New Testament Documents , 36–37.
    72. Greenleaf, The Testimony of the Evangelists , 22; also see Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 36.
    73. See McBirnie, The Search for the Twelve Apostles , 252–53; also see Thiede and D’Ancona, Eyewitness to Jesus , 13.
    74. U.S. v. DaSilva , 725 F.2d 828 (2nd Cir. 1983); also see U.S. v. Alvarez , 755 F.2d 830, 859–860 (11th Cir. 1985) cert. den. 474 U.S. 905.
    75. Irenaeus, “Adversus haereses, X.I.i.” (Euseb. H.E. V.8), in Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church, 28.
    76. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament , 267.
    77. Robinson, Redating the New Testament , 101.
    78. For a detailed compilation of New Testament sources for this information, see Bruce, The New Testament Documents, 41–42.
    79. Thiede and D’Ancona, Eyewitness to Jesus , 70.
    80. Bruce, The New Testament Documents, 47.
    81. Ibid., 48–50.
    82. Ibid., 50; also see Brown, Introduction to the New Testament , 368. For a description of the persecution of Polycarp, see “The Martyrdom of Polycarp,” in Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church, 9.
    83. Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 51.
    84. Irenaeus, “Adversus haereses, III.I.i” (Euseb. H.E. V.8), in Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church, 28.
    85. Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 52; quoting from the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of John. The prologue was referred to as Anti-Marcionite because it opposed the views of Marcion, who lived in Rome in approximately ad 140. Maricon created the earliest list, or canon, of the New Testament books but was labeled a heretic because of his theological position supporting rejection of the entire Old Testament in favor of the New Testament.
    86. Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 50.
    87. Charlesworth, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls , xxxiii.
    88. For example, see Charlesworth, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls , xxxiv; also see Bruce, The New Testament Documents , 58: and Wilson, Jesus: the Evidence , 34–35.
    89. Robinson, Redating the New Testament , 284. Robinson has compared the style of the Gospel of John favorably to the books of Colossians, Jude, and 2 Peter.
    90. Federal Rule of Evidence 701.
    91. United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Adetunji Adebayo v. Catholic Knights Insurance Society , 915 F. Supp. 25, 27 (Northern District of Illinois; 1996), construing Federal Rule of Evidence 602; Advisory Committee’s Note.
    92. See U.S. v. Alvarez; U.S. v. DaSilva .
    93. See Bruce, The New Testament Documents for a discussion of this research.
    94. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Darden , 503 U.S. 318, 112 S. Ct. 1344, 1349, 117 L.Ed. 3d 581 (1992), (setting forth the common-law test for determination of an agency relationship); Pappas v. Middle Earth Condominium Assn., 963 F.2d