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Collecting select articles from the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, this volume examines New Testament interpretation and methods from a variety of viewpoints. In two sections, “Principles” and “Practice”, distinguished scholars contribute essays on a number of important topics. Contributors include Christopher M. Tuckett (“The Griesbach Hypothesis in the Nineteenth Century”), F....

On the other hand, the two-document hypothesis was established mainly by the influence of Holtzmann in Germany, and in England by Sanday, who brought over many of the results of German criticism. Farmer claims that both scholars sought to build on a consensus of opinion which was often very artificial, and which sometimes ignored the Griesbach hypothesis in an unwarranted way.3 However, in displacing the Griesbach hypothesis, the theory of Markan priority satisfied a theological need: it established
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