Marcan Priority Without Q Explorations in the Farrer Hypothesis

by Poirier, John C.; Peterson, Jeffrey; Keith, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780567159137
• ISBN10: 0567159132
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book discusses the composition of the synoptic gospels from the perspective of the Farrer hypothesis, a view that posits that Mark was written first, that Matthew used Mark as a source, and that Luke used both Mark and Matthew. All of the articles in the volume are written in support of the Farrer hypothesis, with the exception of the final chapter, which criticizes these articles from the perspective of the reigning Two-Source theory. The contributors engage the synoptic problem with a more refined understanding of the options set before each of the evangelists pointing towards a deepened understanding of how works were compiled in the first and early second centuries CE.

The contributors include Andris Abakuks, Stephen Carlson, Eric Eve, Mark Goodacre, Heather Gorman, John S. Kloppenborg, David Landry, Mark Matson, Ken Olson, Michael Pahl, Jeffrey Peterson, and John C. Poirier.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Peterson is Jack C. and Ruth Wright Professor of New Testament, Austin Graduate School of Theology , Texas, USA.

Table of Contents

John C. Poirier and Jeffrey Peterson Introduction/Andris Abakuks A statistical time series analysis to test whether Matthew and Luke are independent in their use of Mark/Stephen Carlson A study of Acts's knowledge of Matthew/Eric Eve An exegetical study of the Beelzebul Controversy in source-critical perspective/Mark Goodacre A study of Mark-Q overlaps/Heather Gorman A demonstration of Luke as rhetorically well-ordered narrative/David Landry A study in Lucan compositional method/Mark Matson A study in Lucan compositional method/Ken Olson A discussion of Luke's so-called method of "unpicking" what he takes from Matthew/Michael Pahl A study of how Luke changed Matthew's particularist or exclusivist outlook to a more universalist or inclusivist outlook/Jeffrey Peterson A study showing that Q, if truly constructed according to the approach of Q scholarship, should include both a birth narrative and a passion account/John C. Poirier A study of Luke's rejection of Matthew's birth narrative, as motivated by his disdain for the idea that Jesus' birth was astronomically determined/John S. Kloppenborg A concluding response to the other essays in the book, written from the standpoint of the Two-Source theory