Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Paton J. Gloag

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ISBN 10 : 1331743990 ISBN 13 : 9781331743996

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Baur and the Tubingen school concerning Petrine and Pauline Christianity, and from the important question concerning the authorship of the Fourth Gospel, which recent discoveries of patristic documents and a more rigid examination of the writings of the Fathers have in a great measure settled, to the great problems connected with the origin and sources of the Synoptic Gospels. I do not allude to the mythical theory promulgated by Strauss, which, at least in its original form, may now be regarded as antiquated, but to the question whence the Synoptists derived their information, and to the causes of the remarkable coincidences and equally remarkable differences which are found in their writings. This so-called Synoptic problem is one of the great disputed questions in the biblical criticism of the present day. In this Introduction I have discussed it at considerable length, first giving the most important theories that have been advanced, and then stating what I consider the most probable approaches to the truth. I am very far from supposing that I have arrived at any satisfactory conclusion, and am perfectly aware of the objections to which the theory advanced is exposed, and to which I can only give an imperfect answer: all that I have been able to do is to state what appear to me to be the most probable results of the inquiry. The complete solution of the problem is, I fear, for the present unattainable. A nother question, about which it is still impossible to pronounce an opinion with confidence, has regard to the original language of the Gospel of Matthew. Here the external and internal evidences conflict. Dean Alford observes: I find myself constrained to abandon the view maintained in my first edition, and to adopt that of a Greek original. My experience has been precisely the reverse. At first, giving weight to the internal evidence, I considered that
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331743990
• ISBN 13: 9781331743996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 331
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