Relating the Gospels: Memory, Imitation and the Farrer Hypothesis (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Eve, Eric

ISBN 10: 0567699064 / ISBN 13: 9780567699060

Published by T&T Clark, 2022

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• Title: Relating the Gospels: Memory, Imitation and the Farrer Hypothesis (The Library of New Testament Studies)
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567699064
• ISBN 13: 9780567699060
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume examines the synoptic problem and argues that the similarities between the gospels of Matthew and Luke outweigh the objections commonly raised against the theory that Luke used the text of Matthew in composing his gospel. While agreeing with scholars who suggests that memory played a leading role in ancient source-utilization, Eric Eve argues for a more flexible understanding of memory, which would both explain Luke’s access of Matthew’s double tradition material out of the sequence in which it appears in Matthew, and suggest that Luke may have been more influenced by Matthew’s order than appears on the surface. Eve also considers the widespread ancient practice of literary imitation as another mode of source utilization the Evangelists, particularly Luke, could have employed, and argues that Luke’s Gospel should be seen in part as an emulation of Matthew’s. Within this enlarged understanding of how ancient authors could utilize their sources, Luke’s proposed use of Matthew alongside Mark becomes entirely plausible, and Eve concludes that the Farrer Hypothesis of Matthew using Mark, and Luke consequently using both gospels, to be the most likely solution to the Synoptic Problem.

About the Authors

Eric Eve is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK.

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.