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This series of papers represents a moment in the continuing discussion of Gospel origins. It grew out of the International Symposium in the Interrelations among the Gospels, held in Jerusalem in 1984. This event made it clear that progress in discussion of the order of composition of the Synoptic Gospels demanded research into the stage of tradition which preceded the writing down of the Gospels....

and interpret the written material which they received. The present volume does not intend to be committed to any particular source theory or solution to the Synoptic problem. But, with one or two possible exceptions, whatever theory is proposed, it is accepted that the later evangelists brought to their task insights and possibly material which they had themselves received from oral tradition. So, for instance, on the two-source theory, there is still room for oral tradition in the special Matthaean
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