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A History of the Synoptic Problem: The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

A History of the Synoptic Problem is an accessible, academic study of a question that has needled readers of the New Testament since before the Bible was canonized: How does one reconcile the different accounts of Jesus’ life given by the four Gospels? Today the most highly publicized answer to this question is the one offered by John Dominic Crossan and the Jesus Seminary, who seek to reconcile...

Origen did not need his learned philosophical opponents to tell him that there was a serious problem with the multiple, differing Gospel narratives. His extensive travels had brought him into contact with the entire gamut of Christian literature of his day, orthodox and unorthodox. Origen himself occasionally made use of Gospels other than the four, later canonized, Gospels.12 In the preface to his first Homily
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