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In Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels, respected New Testament scholar Pheme Perkins delivers a fresh introduction to the earliest written accounts of Jesus—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—situating those canonical Gospels within the wider world of oral storytelling and literary production of the first and second centuries. Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels presents a balanced look at how the...

prayer. For Roman Catholics, the first part of the Hail Mary comes from this source as well (1:42). The complex biblical echoes of these canticles suggest that Luke may have taken them from Jewish Christian sources. It is their place in his Gospel that has established these words as fixed elements in the Liturgy of the Hours. Luke concludes the Gospel with the disciples returning to Jerusalem with joy and repeatedly praising God in the temple (Luke 24:52–53). He may have expected the audience to
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