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The third and final installment of James Dunn’s magisterial history of Christian origins through 190 AD, Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity covers the period after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive identity markers and the structures on which it would establish its growing appeal in the following...

We turn, secondly, to Luke’s Gospel. This is not because we can ascertain with any confidence the relative dates of Matthew or Luke. In fact Matthew is usually treated before Luke in Introductions, perhaps with the implicit implication that Matthew was written before Luke.53 Similarly, the minority who question the existence of Q and the need to hypothesize a Q source usually assume that Luke derived the non-Mark material shared with Matthew (the Q material) from Matthew.54
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