Marcan Priority Without Q: Explorations in the Farrer Hypothesis

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John C. Poirier, Jeffrey Peterson
Bloomsbury Publishing, Feb 26, 2015 - Religion - 256 pages
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.
 

Contents

Why the Farrer Hypothesis? Why Now?
1
The Devil in the Detail Exorcising Q From the Beelzebul Controversy
16
Problems With the NonAversion Principle for Reconstructing Q
44
Crank or Creative Genius? How Ancient Thetoric Makes Sense of Lukes Order
62
Too Good to Be Q High Verbatim Agreement in the Double Tradition
82
Luke 1124 The Lords Prayer Abridged Edition
101
A Statistical Time Series Approach to the Use of Mark by Matthew and Luke
119
Matthews Ending and the Genesis of LukeActs The Farrer Hypothesis and the Birth of Christian History
140
Reconsidering the Date of Luke in Light of the Farrer Hypothesis
160
Delbert Burketts Defense of Q
191
The FarrerMark Without Q Hypothesis A Response
226
Bibliography
245
Index of References
260
Index of Authors
269
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Jeffrey Peterson is Jack C. and Ruth Wright Professor of New Testament, Austin Graduate School of Theology, USA.

John C. Poirier is Chair of Biblical Studies at Kingswell Theological Seminary, USA.

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