The Gospel of the Ebionites and the Synoptic Problem
David B. Sloan and James R. Edwards have revived the antique hypothesis that there was a single Gospel according to the Hebrews underlying the diverse patristic testimonies about it and that it was a significant source behind the Synoptic tradition. Specifically, Sloan and Edwards equate this recons...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
2024
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2024, Volume: 86, Issue: 2, Pages: 300-325 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Streeter, Burnett Hillman 1874-1937
/ Evangelium secundum Hebraeos
/ Q
/ Synoptic problem
/ Epiphanius, Constantiensis 315-403
/ Ebionite Gospel
/ Luke
/ Special material
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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Redaction Criticism
B Synoptic Problem B Gospel of the Ebionites |
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| Summary: | David B. Sloan and James R. Edwards have revived the antique hypothesis that there was a single Gospel according to the Hebrews underlying the diverse patristic testimonies about it and that it was a significant source behind the Synoptic tradition. Specifically, Sloan and Edwards equate this reconstructed text with either Q or L, respectively, two hypothetical sources in B. H. Streeter’s classic solution to the Synoptic Problem. In this article, I defend the common scholarly view that the text known to Epiphanius, which modern scholars entitle as the Gospel of the Ebionites to distinguish it from the Gospel according to the Hebrews, was a Greek text that, at points, harmonizes passages from the Synoptics. I will focus on this Gospel’s baptism narrative to demonstrate that it replicates Matthean and Lucan redactional elements, thus making it unlikely to be the source of the Synoptic double tradition or the Lucan Sondergut. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924367 |