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The Three Gospels: New Testament History Introduced by the Synoptic Problem is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a book with a double thrust. Dr. Mosse presents an unremittingly logical assault upon the Synoptic Problem which develops into a general treatment of the major issues in New Testament history. Repeatedly affirming the testimony of Papias and the Early Fathers, Mosse offers a carefully integrated case for early dates and traditional authorship of the three Synoptic gospels and Acts in...

as ‘a gnosticizing version of the Gospels, especially Luke’ is—apart from the Gnostic element—very hard to justify from the text.12 Thomas is a disjointed and largely unstructured collection of logia attributed to Jesus. The gospels are highly structured narratives of the (birth,) ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus with numerous logia incorporated. Both Thomas and the canonical gospels contain a mass of logia not found in the other. Those which are held in common nevertheless regularly exhibit
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