Is There a Synoptic Problem? : Rethinking the Literary Dependence of the First Three Gospels. By Eta Linnemann. Translated by Robert W. Yarbrough. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1992, 219 pp. Back when I began my own journey in wrestling with the Synoptic Problem (SP), I found that Eta Linnemann was frequently…
Last year, I surveyed the opinions of various scholars who either “broadly discounted the Gospels as providing chronological accounts” or who specifically discounted Matthew’s chronological sequence of events, in favor of Mark’s ordering of events. In contrast, I suggested that “if we accept that Matthew was published first, coincident with…
On the premise of Matthean priority and that Mark leveraged Matthew, can we understand Mark to be alluding to some of Matthew’s OT citations? He Lifted Her Up. Am going to start by confessing that this potential allusion is subtle, so I will not be offended if some of you…