This volume addresses the Synoptic Problem and how it emerged in a historical context closely connected with challenges to the historical reliability of the gospels; questions the ability of scholarship arriving at a compelling reconstruction of the historical Jesus; the limits of the canon; and an examination of the relationship between the historical reliability of gospel material and ecclesial dogma that was presumed to flow from the gospels.
The contributors, all experts in the Synoptic Problem, probe various sites and issues in the 19th and 20th century to elaborate how the Synoptic Problem and scholarship on the synoptic gospels was seen to complement, undergird, or complicate theological views. By exploring topics ranging from the Q hypothesis to the Markan priority and the Two Document hypothesis, this volume supplies extensive theological context to the beginnings of synoptic scholarship from an entirely new perspective.

John S. Kloppenborg is Professor and Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Joseph Verheyden is Professor at the KU Leuven, Belgium

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1. Theological Issues at Stake in Early 20th Century Research on the Synoptic Problem -- C. M. Tuckett, University of Oxford, UK
2. The Decline of the Gospel Harmony: Loss or Gain? -- Marijke de Lang, United Bible Societies
3. The Archaeology of the Q Hypothesis: The Case of H. J. Holtzmann -- Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK
4. Memory, Tradition, and Synoptic Sources: The Quest of Holtzmann and Wernle for a Pre-Dogma Jesus - Alan Kirk, James Madison University, USA
5. The Search for "Urevangelium" as a Question of the Authority of the Jesus Tradition -- Markus Tiwald, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
6. The Rise of the Markan Priority Hypothesis and Early Responses and Challenges to It - Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, UK
7. "No Weapon but That of Analysis": Issues at Stake in the Rise and Reception of the Two-Document Hypothesis - Daniel Smith, Huron University, Canada
8. The Synoptic Problem, the Apocryphal Gospels, and the Quest of the Historical Jesus: Towards a Reformulation of the Synoptic Problem -- Jens Schröter, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
9. French Catholic Scholars on the Synoptic Problem in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- Benedict Viviano, Fribourg University, Switzerland
10. Camouflaging Q: The Catholic 2DH from Lagrange to Sickenberger and Beyond -- John Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Canada
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