Rethinking the Gospel Sources

Download or read book Rethinking the Gospel Sources written by Delbert Royce Burkett and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burkett offers a new viewpoint on the much-debated Synoptic Problem. He contends that each theory regarding the Synoptic Problem is problematic. Each presents a case for the mutual dependence of one source upon another - for example, Matthew and Luke depend primarily on Mark, but use each other where they report the same story not contained already in Mark. Neither Mark nor Matthew nor Luke served as the source for the other two, but all depended on a set of earlier sources now lost. The relations between the Synoptic Gospels are more complex than the simpler theories have assumed.