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Perhaps the greatest literary enigma in history, the Synoptic Problem has fascinated generations of scholars who have puzzled over the agreements, the disagreements, the variations, and the peculiarities of the relationship between the first three of our canonical Gospels. Yet the Synoptic Problem remains inaccessible to students, who often become quickly entangled in its apparent complexities....

3. The Case for Q Q is a derivative hypothesis. It is the result of a prior assertion, that Matthew and Luke used Mark independently of one other. As soon as one has postulated that Matthew and Luke are independent of each other but at the same time dependent on Mark, it is the natural next step to suggest that their common non-Markan material comes from a third, otherwise unknown source. Therefore many of the traditional arguments for Q are actually—quite naturally—arguments against the dependence
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