The Four: A Survey of the Gospels. By Peter J. Leithart. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2010, 251 pp. In chapter 3 of his Survey of the Gospels, Peter Leithart introduces three questions which arise because of the similarities and differences between Matthew, Mark, and Luke: “Where do the Gospels come…
The most popular modern hypothesis for explaining the publication order of the Synoptic Gospel is that Mark was published first, followed by Matthew and Luke, each having used Mark and other sources without having consulted each other. Variations exist on this hypothesis; but consistently, Mark is claimed to have been…