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