Rainbow - The Making of the Synoptic Gospels Exploring the Ancient Sources

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Rainbow - The Making of the Synoptic Gospels Exploring the Ancient Sources

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Ok. This is a definite fringe inclusion but including based on it arguing that the synoptic gospels are actually a translation from Hebrew which I figure folks here may have views on

coming July 2024
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ma ... F20E97B4F6
Why are the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke so similar, yet different? Modern scholars have developed four main approaches to the synoptic problem: That the evangelists tapped into testimonies about Jesus, or drew from many written fragments, or used a common exemplar, or modified each other's work. The first three approaches find solid support in antiquity, yet ironically, the fourth approach dominates gospel scholarship, without producing any consensus. In this study, Paul A. Rainbow reclaims the discarded proto-gospel hypothesis of the earliest modern critics, based on a fresh reading of traditions recorded by Papias in the early second century CE. He challenges the Utilization hypotheses – that the synoptists adapted the work of each other, in various theoretical configurations – by offering an historically nuanced hypothesis of a proto-gospels, which the three evangelists independently translated into Greek from Hebrew and enriched with oral testimonies and written fragments available to them.
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Re: Rainbow - The Making of the Synoptic Gospels Exploring the Ancient Sources

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Interestingly, there also is an upcoming Brill title coming out this year on the question of the synoptic sources

Finding the Synoptic Gospels’ Construction Process - A Comparative-Linguistic Analysis of the Eucharist and Its Co-texts
https://brill.com/display/title/70120?r ... L&result=1
This study critically examines the current state of Synoptic Gospel studies, particularly many scholars' reliance on the literary-dependence hypothesis, and endeavors to advance a more balanced approach. The author attempts to deduce the Synoptic Gospels' construction process by meticulously examining the Eucharist and its co-text within these Gospels, by employing a model of Mode Register Analysis based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This study uncovers the probability that each designated text in the Synoptic Gospels was constructed based on oral Gospel tradition(s) under the influence of each constructor’s identity.
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