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    Book Reflection. Is There a Synoptic Problem? Rethinking the Literary Dependence of the First Three Gospels by Eta Linnemann

    May 29, 2025 - By admin

    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…

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    Is Matthew or Mark more chronologically accurate? A survey of Birks, Upham, Cockburne, Chapman, and Wenham.

    May 13, 2025 - By admin

    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…

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    Allusions in Mark to Matthew’s OT Citations: He Lifted Her Up (Mark 1:31)

    May 5, 2025 - By admin

    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…

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    Allusions in Mark to Matthew’s OT Citations: The Time is Fulfilled (Mark 1:15)

    April 30, 2025 - By admin

    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? The Time is Fulfilled. Matthew 4:12–17 reports that after hearing that John had been arrested, Jesus withdrew into Galilee, so that what was spoken by the…

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    Allusions in 1 Thessalonians 2:13–16 to Matthew 23

    April 17, 2025 - By admin

    On the premise that Matthew was published coincident with the events of Acts 10–11, and that Matthew was one of the Scriptures which Paul examined in the synagogues on his missionary journeys, and also that he left copies with each of the churches, how does this paradigm serve to change…

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    A few reflections upon the one year anniversary of my first book

    April 1, 2025 - By admin

    The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay … The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the…

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  • Synoptic Sequences

    Mark and Luke’s transitional language when integrating resequenced episodes from Matthew

    March 24, 2025 - By admin

    On the premise that Matthew was published coincident with the events in Acts 10–11 and Mark shortly thereafter, with full knowledge of Matthew’s Greek text, I have been evaluating the passages which Mark chose to resequence–from Matthew–into earlier settings within his own narrative. Refer to “Mark’s resequenced episodes, assuming Matthean…

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    Thomas Townson’s arguments for an early Matthew

    March 18, 2025 - By admin

    As I have searched out those who affirmed an early publication of Matthew, I have particularly appreciated the writings of Thomas Townson. Born in Essex, Townson (1715–1792) was educated at Oxford’s Magdalen College, was ordained in 1742, ministered in Blithfield, and for an extended period was the Rector of the…

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    Mark’s resequenced episodes, assuming Matthean priority

    March 8, 2025 - By admin

    Which of Mark’s episodes were resequenced, on the assumption that Mark had Matthew’s Gospel available to him? For this exercise, I am excluding some of the teaching events, such as the parables, as Jesus may well have taught things at multiple times. Plus, the narrative summary statements are also excluded.…

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    Flashbacks and flash-forwards: insight into Mark’s fig tree story

    February 24, 2025 - By admin

    In a prior blog post, “The two-part story of the withered fig tree,” I argued that the Matthean and the Markan accounts can be harmonized by realizing that Mark is employing a flash-forward. According to Matthew’s account, it is after the temple cleansing that (1) Jesus curses the fig tree,…

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