Theological and Theoretical Issues in the Synoptic Problem (The Library of New Testament Studies, 618) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0567688267 ISBN 13: 9780567688262

Publisher: T&T Clark, 2020

Synopsis

This volume addresses the Synoptic Problem and how it emerged in a historical context closely connected with challenges to the historical reliability of the gospels; questions the ability of scholarship arriving at a compelling reconstruction of the historical Jesus; the limits of the canon; and an examination of the relationship between the historical reliability of gospel material and ecclesial dogma that was presumed to flow from the gospels.

The contributors, all experts in the Synoptic Problem, probe various sites and issues in the 19th and 20th century to elaborate how the Synoptic Problem and scholarship on the synoptic gospels was seen to complement, undergird, or complicate theological views. By exploring topics ranging from the Q hypothesis to the Markan priority and the Two Document hypothesis, this volume supplies extensive theological context to the beginnings of synoptic scholarship from an entirely new perspective.

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About the Authors

John S. Kloppenborg is a University Professor and Professor of Religion in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. Recent publications include Christ's Associations: Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City (2019), Vols. I and III of Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary (with R. Ascough, 2011, 2020) and Q, The Earliest Gospel: An Introduction to the Original Sayings and Stories of Jesus (2008).

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Joseph Verheyden is Professor at the KU Leuven, Belgium

Edition details

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567688267
• ISBN 13: 9780567688262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Kloppenborg John S., Verheyden Joseph