…the criterion of embarrassment makes it likely that Mark 13:32 in particular is authentic: “But about that day or hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father.” If this verse is authentic, the natural conclusion would be that the contradictory verse, 13:30, is not. It will not…

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0142064X14558021 An increasing number of scholars situate the Gospel of Mark within the Pauline sphere of influence. The centrality of Mark’s Passion story may lend itself to this interpretation, and Mark’s Gospel is frequently read as a narrativization of the Pauline kerygma on the vicarious death of Jesus. I intend to challenge this academic paradigm,…

Commentary of a book on gMark Scholars soon raised questions about its historical reliability, and form critics in the early twentieth century described Mark as a collector of early Christian traditions shaped by the needs of the early church.Like the books of Moses, Mark is the product of a long process of tradition involving many…

Preface The Sayings Gospel Q is an archaic collection of sayings ascribed to Jesus, even older than the Gospels in the New Testament. In fact, it is the oldest Gospel of Christianity. Yet it is not in the New Testament itself. Rather, it was known to, and used by, the Evangelists of the Gospels of…

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For more than a century, the most commonly held understanding concerning the relationships among the Synoptic Gospels has been the “two source” theory. This explanation assumes the priority of Mark and claims that another source, Q (from Quelle, German for “source”), lies behind the significant amount of non-Marcan material shared by Matthew and Luke. Although…

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On the matter of whether Q was written, Tuckett writes (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, v. 5, p. 568): “The theory that Q represents a mass of oral traditions does not account for the common order in Q material, which can be discerned once Matthew’s habit of collecting related material into his large teaching discourses is…

(a) The standard arguments for existence of Q appear to be inadequate—indeed close consideration of them in each case leads us directly to the plausibility of Luke’s use of Matthew:Luke’s order: It is commonly said that Luke’s order of Double Tradition material is inexplicable on the assumption that he has taken this material from Matthew.…

According to the Two Source Hypothesis accepted by a majority of contemporary scholars, the authors of Matthew and Luke each made use of two different sources: the Gospel of Mark and a non-extant second source termed Q. The siglum Q derives from the German word “Quelle,” which means “Source.” Q primarily consists of the “double…