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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....

Palestine1 one can even ask with Martin Hengel if Jesus himself did not already have contacts with some of the Jewish ‘Ελληνισταί of Jerusalem.2 This would explain the strong position of that group already in Jerusalem immediately after the resurrection in the first two years after Easter and how a person like Barnabas, who was related to the second evangelist (Acts 12:12, 25; 15:37; cf. Col. 4:10), could become such an important apostolic figure. It is not at all impossible that in such circles
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