Présentation de l'éditeur
Pauline. In the one point wherein the Tubingen critics were nearer to early tradition than most of their present opponents, the Johannine authorship of Revelation, I am compelled by the external evidence, which with them counted for so little, to go their way. Contrariwise, in the anonymous historical books my personal study has led to the conviction that our present gospels and A cts are the outcome of a longer and more complex process of growth than most critics admit. The problems of the Synoptic and Johannine Tradition, more especially that of the special sources of our third gospel and A cts, in connection with theories of the Western Text, defied all attempts at concise statement of accepted results in proper relation to personal conviction. In the dilemma between justice to views which have obtained the sanction of the greatest modern scholars and to the solution which has finally commended itself to me as true, I have thrown myself upon the reviewers mercy (reviewers are supposed to read prefaces), stating my results, though forced to do so with a baldness painfully suggestive of egotistic self-confidence. Yet I can but hope that some of the departures will be found to be not a going aside from the course of sober criticism, but, to some extent, in advance of it. The aim at least has been to set down nothing as fact which is in conflict with accepted results, noras probable to which these do not appear to be leading up.
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