The Roll, the Codex, the Wax Tablet and the Synoptic Problem

The Farrer hypothesis, especially as defended by Michael Goulder, has often been faulted for its supposed reliance on an anachronistic and technically impracticable understanding of Luke’s compositional practices. A closer look at the arguments against Farrer and Goulder, however, reveals a number o...

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Auteur principal: Poirier, John C. 1963- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2012
Dans: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Année: 2012, Volume: 35, Numéro: 1, Pages: 3-30
Sujets non-standardisés:B F. Gerald Downing
B Michael Goulder
B Synoptic Problem
B wax tablets
B Robert Derrenbacker
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Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:The Farrer hypothesis, especially as defended by Michael Goulder, has often been faulted for its supposed reliance on an anachronistic and technically impracticable understanding of Luke’s compositional practices. A closer look at the arguments against Farrer and Goulder, however, reveals a number of problems with this charge, including (but not limited to) its dependence on an inadequate understanding of how works were actually composed in antiquity. Goulder’s suggestion that Luke worked backwards through Matthew, in particular, has received a certain amount of criticism, but that scenario is shown here to be both technically feasible and perfectly in keeping with the way the ancients sometimes worked. Perhaps the greatest problem with the arguments made against the Farrer hypothesis is that they ignore Luke’s likely use of the wax tablet as a compositional aid—a medium that would have allowed Luke to rearrange Matthew’s material as freely as Farrerians suppose.
ISSN:1745-5294
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0142064X12453657