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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...

worked on behalf of persons who were not Israelites. The crowd’s hostility is even stronger than that in the story told by Mark and Matthew. People want to throw Jesus off a cliff (Luke 4:29). Luke’s talent as a master storyteller is on display throughout his work. Many of our most loved parables, the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, the Rich Man and Lazarus, are found only in his Gospel. This example highlights other techniques employed in fashioning new versions of Jesus’ life on the Markan frame:
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