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

by Eric Eve

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2021

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Explores how the Gospels are related among themselves
• Confines itself to comparing the viability of the Farrer Hypothesis with that of its principal competitor, the Two Document Hypothesis
• Constructs the most economic available hypothesis that plausibly explains the surviving data

Contents

• Introduction
• Models, Memory and Markan Priority
• Transformational Techniques
• Significant Similarities
• Difficult Differences
• The Order Objection
• Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: Relating the Gospels: Memory, Imitation and the Farrer Hypothesis
• Author: Eric Eve
• Series: Library of New Testament Studies
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• ISBNs: 9780567699060, 0567699064
• Resource ID: LLS:RELATINGGOSPELS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:09:57Z

About Eric Eve

Eric Eve is fellow and tutor in theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He has published a number of articles and other short pieces on various aspects of the Gospels and Jesus—usually related either to miracles or to the Synoptic Problem and is also the author of The Jewish Context of Jesus’ Miracles and The Healer from Nazareth.