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Two Shipwrecked Gospels: The Logoi of Jesus and Papias's Exposition of Logia about the Lord

By Dennis R. MacDonald

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2012
ISBN
1589836901, 9781589836907
Google Books ID
SbpVqpT6GikC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5266152 bytes)
Series
Early Christianity and Its Literature 8
Pages
xvi+712\730
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-05-20 13:18:53

Description

With characteristic boldness and careful reassessment of the evidence, MacDonald offers an alternative reconstruction of Q and an alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem: the Q+/Papias Hypothesis. To do so, he reconstructs and interprets two lost books about Jesus: the earliest Gospel, which was used as a source by the authors of Mark, Matthew, and Luke; and the earliest commentary on the Gospels, by Papias of Hierapolis, who apparently knew Mark, Matthew, and the lost Gospel, which he considered to be an alternative Greek translation of a Semitic Matthew. MacDonald also explores how these two texts, well known into the fourth century, shipwrecked with the canonization of the New Testament and the embarrassment at outmoded eschatologies in both the lost Gospel and Papias's Exposition.

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