Redaction Criticism: Josephus' Antiquities and the Synoptic Gospels (I)

Downing, F. Gerald

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“…14 If correct, Watson’s analysis also calls for a clarification of Eve’s (2021: 132) statement quoted in the previous paragraph, indicating that one does not need a Mark–Q overlap to establish multiple instances of unpicking by FH Luke (whether the phenomenon of unpicking itself is problematic for the FH is not a question that will be addressed in this article; cf. Downing 1980a, 1980b, 1988).…”

Section: Watson and Fh Luke’s Unpickingmentioning

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FH Luke’s ‘Unpicking’: Some Observations on Francis Watson’s Recent Analysis (2018) and the Extent of the Phenomenon

Andrejevs¹

2022

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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The hypothetical phenomenon known as Luke’s ‘unpicking’ of some of Matthew’s Markan material has occupied the attention of synoptic problem specialists since the seminal article by F. Gerald Downing (1965). The discussion has received a number of contributions in recent years, first with an exchange between Christopher M. Tuckett and Francis Watson (both essays published in 2018) and now with a separate analysis by Eric Eve (2021). A comprehensive tabulation of the phenomenon, however, is still lacking, with the authors selectively focusing on some of the data. Eve concludes his discussion by suggesting that he has explained the phenomenon for the Farrer Hypothesis. However, Eve’s analysis does not include a number of the instances tabulated just a few years earlier by Watson. Moreover, Watson’s tabulation itself is need of an update, being unnecessarily narrow. In this article, I analyze Watson’s contribution to the discussion, developing his recognition of the phenomenon of unpicking and adjusting several aspects of his analysis. Assessment of the procedure’s difficulty does not belong to the article’s scope. Rather, this article aims to provide a comprehensive tabulation of Farrer Luke’s unpicking that can be utilized by synoptic specialists on all sides of the current discussion.

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Section: Watson and Fh Luke’s Unpickingmentioning

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FH Luke’s ‘Unpicking’: Some Observations on Francis Watson’s Recent Analysis (2018) and the Extent of the Phenomenon

Andrejevs¹

2022

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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“…What is missing from this account, apart from the reasonable suggestion that Luke used a notebook to collect sayings in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount that he wanted to reserve for later use (p. 170), is consideration of ancient compositional practices, including the practicalities of using a variety of sources and the ways in which ancient writers reproduced sources. The important contributions of Gerald Downing (1980a; 1980b; 1988; 2000; 2011) and Robert Derrenbacker (2005; 2011) do not appear in Watson’s bibliography. Here, as too often elsewhere, Watson engages with the gospels (including non-canonical ones) as though the texts of the gospels themselves were all the evidence we need for understanding their composition.…”

Section: Lukementioning

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Gospels before Normativization: A Critique of Francis Watson’s Gospel Writing

Bauckham¹

2014

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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This extended review of Francis Watson, Gospel Writing, engages critically with some of the major arguments of the book, including Watson’s case against Q and for Luke’s use of Matthew, his claim that the Gospel of Thomas preserves a very early genre of gospel writing, his argument that the Gospel of John is dependent on the Egerton Gospel, and his account of the process (‘normativization’) that produced the canon of the four gospels. His work is criticized generally for neglecting the wider literary context of the gospels in ancient Jewish and Graeco-Roman literature.

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“…A fourth paper on the relevance of antique redactional practices for the Synoptic Problem was given by G. Downing (Manchester), 'Writers' Use or Abuse of Written Sources'. Downing started from an older result of an inquiry on the ancient composition practices commenting that the striking feature of the Synoptics is not the differences from one to another but the rather large extent of verbatim agreement one can find between them (Downing 1987). In the light of ancient evidence on using sources, the expected use would be the paraphrase and not verbal similarity.…”

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The Oxford Conference on the Synoptic Problem

Batovici

2009

Currents in Biblical Research

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The past two centuries have witnessed a wide spectrum of solutions for the Synoptic Problem. Even though quite far from a consensus, the problem tends to incorporate new domains from ongoing connected research: the relevance of the Gospel of Thomas, the Synoptic authors' use of the Old Testament or recent studies on communication media in antiquity. This article surveys a number of issues presented in the papers of the Oxford Conference on the Synoptic Problem, held in May 2008, ranging from challenging past and present solutions of the Synoptic Problem from different perspectives to new directions of research on this topic.

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Redaction Criticism: Josephus' Antiquities and the Synoptic Gospels (I)

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FH Luke’s ‘Unpicking’: Some Observations on Francis Watson’s Recent Analysis (2018) and the Extent of the Phenomenon

FH Luke’s ‘Unpicking’: Some Observations on Francis Watson’s Recent Analysis (2018) and the Extent of the Phenomenon

Gospels before Normativization: A Critique of Francis Watson’s Gospel Writing

The Oxford Conference on the Synoptic Problem

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