Theological and Theoretical Issues in the Synoptic Problem

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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. Cover Contents Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Theological Issues at Stake in Early-Twentieth-Century Research on the Synoptic Problem Christopher Tuckett 2 The Decline of the Gospel Harmony:Loss or Gain? Marijke H. de Lang 3 The Archaeology of the Q Hypothesis:The Case of H. J. Holtzmann Francis Watson 4 Memory, Tradition, and Synoptic Sources: The Quest of Holtzmann and Wernle for a Pre-Dogma Jesus Alan Kirk 5 Die Suche nach dem „Urevangelium“ als Frage nach der Authentizität der Jesusüberlieferung Markus Tiwald 6 The Rise of the Markan Priority Hypothesis and Early Responses and Challenges to It Paul Foster 7 “No Weapon but That of Analysis”: Issues at Stake in the Rise and Reception of the Two-Document Hypothesis Daniel A. Smith 8 The Synoptic Problem, the “Apocryphal Gospels,” and the Quest of the Historical Jesus: Toward a Reformulation of the Synoptic Problem Jens Schröter 9 French Catholic Scholarship on the Synoptic Problem in the Late Nineteenth and EarlyTwentieth Centuries Benedict Thomas Viviano, O.P. 10 Camouflaging Q: The Catholic 2DH from Lagrange to Sickenberger and Beyond John S. Kloppenborg Bibliography Index of Names Index of References