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Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

McKnight critiques various interpretive methods and suggests how students with some knowledge of Greek can benefit from different analyses.

Luke. If Luke and Matthew were largely dependent upon each other, one would expect, for example, that after the temptation there would be agreement in the placement of Jesus’ sayings; but there is not. If they were dependent, one would expect that one of the authors would be consistently more Semitic than the other, but the fact is that sometimes Matthew and sometimes Luke preserve what is considered to be the more Semitic form of a saying of Jesus. Others have argued that it would be unlikely that
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