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The Synoptic Problem: A Way through the Maze is unavailable, but you can change that!

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....

parables are here—the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, Dives and Lazarus, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Unjust Judge, the Friend at Midnight, the Rich Fool. Furthermore, some of the non-parable material is equally as rich in its colour as are the parables—it is here that one finds some of the most three-dimensional, human touches in the Gospels—the Ten Lepers, where one returns thankful; the Widow of Nain, whose only son is brought to life; Martha and Mary, where Mary is commended for listening
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