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A Literary Guide to the Life of Christ in Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts: How the Synoptic Evangelists Tell the Story of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

A Literary Guide to the Life of Christ in Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts is a detailed study of the synoptic gospels. Warren Gage and Steven Carpenter examine topics such as Matthew’s call, Jesus’ miracles, deltaform patterning, literary structure, and Luke’s use of prophetic echoes in the life of Jesus. These respected scholars also advocate acceptance of the longer ending of Mark’s gospel. This...

This quest to discover the literary beauty of Scripture is turned in this study to the New Testament contribution of the synoptic evangelists. We have chosen this starting place because of the strategic place that the Gospels hold in the literature of the Bible. The unique place and role of the Gospels was recognized early on in church history by the desire to somehow distinguish the first four books of the New Testament. This quest moved Justin Martyr in the early second century to start using the
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