in the four gospels would be the differences in Samuel-Kings/Chronicles. The gospels combined this with Hellenistic patterns (it was common for Jewish works in Greek to adopt Greek style: cf. Philo). Keener concludes (italics his): Matthew did not write his Gospel without forethought; he was a historian-biographer and interpreter and not just a storyteller.… Like other writers, Matthew would follow one main source (in this case Mark) and weave his other sources around it.… If Matthew’s basic genre