33. Percy Gardner-Smith, Saint John and the Synoptic Gospels

33. Percy Gardner-Smith, Saint John and the Synoptic Gospels

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Did John use the synoptic gospels? A discussion of Percy Gardner-Smith's Saint John and the Synoptic Gospels (featuring Mark Goodacre of the NT Pod).

Percival Gardner-Smith, Saint John and the Synoptics (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1938).

Thanks to Carnegie Band for use of their song "Come Home."

18. FG Downing, "Towards the Rehabilitation of Q"

 18. F.G. Downing, "Towards the Rehabilitation of Q"


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Does Luke's use of Matthew require an implausible composition procedure? A discussion of Downing's influential argument for the two source theory.

F.G. Downing, "Towards the Rehabilitation of Q" (New Testament Studies, 1965): 169-181.

Thanks to Carnegie Band for use of their song "Come Home."

11. Austin Farrer, "On Dispensing with Q"

11. Austin Farrer, "On Dispensing with Q"

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Are there good reasons to think that Matthew and Luke had a common source other than Mark? A discussion of "On Dispensing with Q" by Austin Farrer.

Austin Farrer, "On Dispensing with Q" in D.E. Nineham (ed.), Studies in the Gospels: Essays in Memory of R.H. Lightfoot (Oxford: Blackwell, 1955): 55-88.

Thanks to Carnegie Band for use of their song "Come Home."

4. BH Streeter, The Four Gospels

4. B.H. Streeter, The Four Gospels



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Matthew, Mark, and Luke are suspiciously similar. Who copied from whom? Did Matthew and Luke share a source that hasn't survived? Our first synoptic problem episode featuring Ken Olson! A discussion of BH Streeter's The Four Gospels.

Burnett Hillman Streeter, The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins, Treating of the Manuscript Tradition, Sources, Authorship, & Dates (London: Macmillan 1924). 

Thanks to Carnegie Band for use of their song "Come Home."