The Hebrew Gospel & the Development of the Synoptic Tradition

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Author: James R. Edwards
ISBN: 9780802862341

By: James R. Edwards

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 2009 / Paperback

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Needless to say, a book that challenges the modern biblical scholarship assumption of 'Q' is bound to be controversial and to create as much drama as one could expect from the field. But that is exactly what James Edwards does--without apology--when he argues in The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition, that 'Q' never existed and that the earliest Gospel is the Gospel of the Hebrews known only through brief Patristic quotations.

Through these quotations, Edwards Argues, there is much to suggest the Gospel of the Hebrews, oriented primarily to Jewish readers came to be the primary source for The Gospel of Matthew. Consequently, Matthew must have preceded BOTH Mark and Luke.

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Title: The Hebrew Gospel & the Development of the Synoptic Tradition
By: James R. Edwards
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 376
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2009

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 4 ounces
ISBN: 0802862349
ISBN-13: 9780802862341
Stock No: WW862341

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This book offers a new explanation of the development of the first three Gospels based on a careful examination of both patristic testimony to the “Hebrew Gospel” and internal evidence in the canonical Gospels themselves. James Edwards breaks new ground and challenges assumptions that have long been held in the New Testament guild but actually lack solid evidence.

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James R. Edwards is Bruner-Welch Professor Emeritus of Theology at Whitworth University, where he taught for nearly two decades. His book Is Jesus the Only Savior? won the 2006 Christianity Today Book of the Year award in apologetics. His other books include The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition, In the Beginning: A Commentary on Genesis and Its Reception in the New Testament, and commentaries on the gospels of Mark and Luke.

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Markus Bockmuehl
— University of Oxford
"This landmark study, a decade in the making, advances a bold and fresh interpretation of Gospel origins that seems sure to generate interest, debate, and controversy for some time to come. Against the established 'Two Source' (Mark and 'Q') and the increasingly popular 'Farrer-Goulder' (Mark-Matthew-Luke) hypotheses, Edwards revives an older scholarly fascination with the mysterious 'Hebrew Gospel' that was held in high regard by many church fathers and attributed to Matthew the apostle. Drawing on patient study of patristic quotations and on Semitisms in the Gospel of Luke, Edwards proposes that the Third Evangelist used a single Gospel document in Hebrew both for his special material and for his overall narrative outline (together with Mark and a much more compact 'double tradition' also known to the later canonical Matthew). This is an important and exciting work that offers students an excellent introduction to early Christian views of the Gospel tradition — and it gives Synoptic scholars much to chew on!"

Loren T. Stuckenbruck
— Princeton Theological Seminary
"For a long time, scholarship on the Synoptic Gospels has stalemated around well-worn questions. James Edwards's fascinating and well-researched study opens up an angle that needs to be heard today. This book is a real contribution that will be studied and discussed for years to come!"