The Sources of the Synoptic Gospels: Volume 2, St Luke and St Matthew

This book, which was originally published in 1957, seeks to take Gospel criticism beyond Form-criticism.

Wilfred L. Knox (Author), H. Chadwick (Edited by)

9780521180757, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 February 2011

182 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.24 kg

The gospels were written to preach Christ and not to satisfy the curiosities of the modern scholar, but they do contain important historical material of the first importance. That is Dr Knox's contention, and this book, which was originally published in 1957, seeks to take Gospel criticism a stage beyond Form-criticism. By acute detective work Dr Knox traces the use of primitive tracts incorporated by the Synoptic evangelists, delicately disentangling the virtually intact. The study of the Lucan material in this second volume carries much of the argument of the entire work, which attempts to show that the Synoptic gospels are compilations of sources first written down some thirty years closer to the time of the events than is commonly supposed. If this is established, the historical reliability of the account is correspondingly increased.

Editor's preface
Abbreviations
Part I. The Question of Q: 1. The Q tradition
2. The Sermon on the Mount: a. The Lucan Sermon
b. The Matthean Sermon
Part II. The Sources of Luke: 3. The infancy narrative
4. Q tracts
5. The charge to the disciples
6. A tract on prayer
7. The controversy concerning miracles
8. Preaching the gospel and worldly riches
9. The nationalist peril
10. A collection of fragments
11. Banquet sayings
12. Forgiveness: I
13. God and Mammon
14. Forgiveness: II
15. The non-Marcan apocalypse
16. A collection of parables
Part III. The Sources of Matthew: 17. The birth of Jesus and the fulfilment of prophecy
18. The first collection of parables
19. A 'Church order' and a collection of parables
Epilogue: the problem of authenticity
Appendix: the Oxyrhynchus sayings
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]