Notes 4: four story confusion

Question 1

synoptic gospels

Answer 1

Matt, Mark, Luke share multiple similarities and view story in similar ways, overlap in many ways.

Question 2

Maveric gospel

Answer 2

john

Question 3

gospel relationship similarities (3)

Answer 3

*mostly take place in Galilee
*feeding the 5,000 (all 4)
*death/resurrection (all 4)

Question 4

gospel relationship differences (4)

Answer 4

*John includes jesus traveling outside Galilee
*some stories differ in style and language
*Mark is longer story duration, but shortest gospel overall
*Luke’s writing is academic, challenging greek

Question 5

The synoptic gospel problem: Definition

Answer 5

the study of the unique literary relationships between the synoptic gospels

Question 6

Challenges to this study (3)

Answer 6

*we cannot blow-for-blow reproduce what happened but we know that these stories are unique and complete
*Christian problem: hard to ignore the problem and just say God did it and that’s all I need to know
*Oral vs written problems and disconnect

Question 7

Data (4)

Answer 7

*mark has longest stories: but we find that if it was a biblical idea, you are more likely to add to stories
*Matt and Luke share many of the same quippy sayings and are in the same order
*Mark has almost no unique material
*matt and luke share a large portion of the same material

Question 8

Two-source hypothesis (3)

Answer 8

*mark wrote 1st (makes sense if mat and luk used mark’s version to write their own)
*then Mat and Luk used second source Q to write their gospels
*why different: to appeal to their different audiences

Question 9

Four source hypothesis (3)

Answer 9

*Four sources: Un-Matt/un-luke, mark, Q, and Luke
*Un-matt: only stories found in Matt, so a third source unique to Matt
*Un-luke: only stories found in Luke, so unique third source used by Luke

Question 10

two-gospel hypothesis (4)

Answer 10

*held by many christians
*Believes Matt wrote first
*Luke wrote based on Matt
*And Mark wrote based on many different scholars