A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels

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Scholars and believers from the first century to the present have been troubled by the fact that differing, often sharply divergent, accounts of Jesus' life can be found in the Gospels. According to the Jesus Seminar, these Gospels are all based on the hypothetical Gospel of Q, supposedly a lost collection of Jesus' teachings. But what if the Jesus Seminar is wrong? What if the Gospel of Q simply never existed and was just invented, out of necessity, to resolve the tensions between Matthew, Mark, and Luke? In A ...
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Scholars and believers from the first century to the present have been troubled by the fact that differing, often sharply divergent, accounts of Jesus' life can be found in the Gospels. According to the Jesus Seminar, these Gospels are all based on the hypothetical Gospel of Q, supposedly a lost collection of Jesus' teachings. But what if the Jesus Seminar is wrong? What if the Gospel of Q simply never existed and was just invented, out of necessity, to resolve the tensions between Matthew, Mark, and Luke? In A History of the Synoptic Problem, David Laird Dungan provides a comprehensive history of this contentious debate from its beginning. The result is a book that challenges the status quo and its insistence on the priority of Mark and the existence of Q.
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Sara Gallant
Dungan has provided a readable survey of this debate from its beginning to the present day. His questions are as valuable as his answers.
— The Christian Science Monitor
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By the second century, believers saw the difference among the four Gospels as a scandal, and pagan philosophers were focusing their counterattack on it. Dungan (religious studies, Univ. of Tennessee) considers the problem of the three Synoptic Gospels in terms of four components: the composition and sources of the Gospels, the question of the canon, text criticism, and hermeneutics. Others have given sketchy accounts of the debate over the synoptic gospel before 1800, but Dungan sets forth a structured history from its inception in the second century and elucidates for the first time the political and economic agendas that informed biblical interpretations. He systematically discusses each of the basic components of the problem, indicating the cultural, political, economic, and technological presuppositions in every historical period. This work will be somewhat controversial--Dungan challenges the priority of the Gospel of Mark and the very existence of "Q," a hypothetical source document. An important book for any collection of New Testament studies.--Eugene O. Bowser, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
John S. Kloppenborg
John"David Dungan's History of the Synoptic Problem for the first time sets the study of the Synoptic Problem within a larger framework of theological, ecclesiastical, ideological, and technological history, showing how the seemingly provincial issue of the interrelationship among the Gospels reflects and was influenced by much larger issues in cultural and intellectual history. Of particular value is Duncan's careful attention to the role that printed page technology in the form of Gospel synopses-Osiander, Griesbach, Tischendorf, Huck, Rushbrooke, and others-has played in discussions of the Synoptic Problem."
Sara Gallant
Dungan has provided a readable survey of this debate from its beginning to the present day. His questions are as valuable as his answers.
— The Christian Science Monitor
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A laborious intellectual history of the origin and interpretation of the Gospels.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780385471923
  • Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 6/28/1999
  • Series: Biotechnology Annual Review Series
  • Pages: 526
  • Product dimensions: 6.46 (w) x 9.59 (h) x 1.38 (d)

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