Calypso and Two Writers Named

[Guest guest]

Alice, thank you for this wonderful revelation! I kept thinking you were

talking about the Calypso songs of the West Indies, and it took me till

just now to remember Calypso in the Odyssey! I've got her dancing to

Calypso rhythms now...

By the way, didn't you say, Gene, that Edinger assumes that

the author of Revelation is the same who wrote the fourth

Gospel? I know Jung thought so, but that was quite a while back. It's

my understanding that scholars have long since discarded the idea

that they were the same writer. They sure don't feel like the same

mind.

Carroll

[Guest guest]

Carroll,

In a message dated 99-11-21 07:38:22 EST, you write:

<< By the way, didn't you say, Gene, that Edinger assumes that

the author of Revelation is the same who wrote the fourth

Gospel? I know Jung thought so, but that was quite a while back. It's

my understanding that scholars have long since discarded the idea

that they were the same writer. They sure don't feel like the same

mind. >>

" Higher criticism " in biblical scholarship did discard the tradition that

they were the same writer. It is very likely from a historical viewpoint (if

it's possible to have such a thing, totally unbiased) that the writers were

following the custom of applying an admired authorship to their own work in

order to have it accepted and read. I stay aware of this, but part of my

role is to approach the text as though the traditional interpretation is

closer to the heart (or intuitive truth) than if it were scrubbed clean by a

more skeptical historical investigation. I guess as though it were inspired

truth. I think that something like this is the approach used by Edinger and

Jung.

Some more traditional scholars say it's possible that the two s are the

same. Or, that the Apocalypse was composed by the " Johannine school " that

may have founded. If so, " the one whom he (Jesus) loved " would have to

have been a teen-ager at the time and then in his 90s when he dictated The

Apocalypse.

I might point out that form and literary critics do suggest that there are

some resemblances between the two, even if their intent was different. I

can't at the moment give you any references though; I'm just not that well

organised.

Sincerely,

Gene