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It's time to give this idea a decent burial

3/11/2016

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I've just been reading The Synoptic Problem: Four Views (Baker, 2016). Amongst the four views included is the Two Gospels Hypothesis (Mark conflates Matthew and Luke). This has received a great deal of attention in the past - the upshot of which is to persuade virtually everyone that it is a substantially flawed hypothesis. It is included here, however, because it qualifies as a 'major' view - where 'major' denotes a view that has received a lot of attention in the past. According to this criterion, however, no progress can ever be made. Instead we must forever condemn each fresh generation of students to mire themselves in the same moribund arguments. The time has come, therefore, to give the Two Gospel Hypothesis a decent burial. Perhaps then authors and publishers can be released from the sense of obligation to include the 2GH as a viable option in every introductory text book on the Synoptic Problem forevermore. Then, perhaps, there will be room to consider relatively unexplored and potentially more productive theories instead. 

    How do you feel about the Two Gospel Hypothesis?

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Alan Garrow
5/1/2017 10:08:27 am

Nine people have responded to this survey so far.
They are unanimous in their response: it's time for a decent burial.

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Adam Crowl
28/3/2017 10:13:27 pm

Hopefully I've added another spadeful.

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Alan Garrow
10/7/2017 09:50:57 am

I've just had someone vote for the option 'reports of its demise are premature'. If it was you, would you be willing to write a fuller explanation of why you believe this is the case?

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    Alan Garrow is Vicar of St Peter's Harrogate and a member of SCIBS at the University of Sheffield. 

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