will be the task of this history to make these political and economic aspects clear for each of the major Forms of the Synoptic Problem. This book is a chronological narrative divided into three parts that roughly correspond to three major epochs in the debate over the interrelations among the Gospels. Part One covers the period from the first century to the fifth. It takes its start with the first signs of anxiety regarding the multiplicity of differing accounts of the Lord
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