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THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM 1. The Literary Interrelationship of the SYNOPTIC Gospels That Matthew, Mark and Luke are similar to one another in content, the order of pericopes and in expression (style and vocabulary) is obvious to even the casual observer. (A pericope is technical term for a unit of gospel tradition.) This raises the question of why they are similar to one another in these respects. This is known as the SYNOPTIC PROBLEM . In the late nineteenth century, Westcott proposed that the independent use of oral tra-dition by the three SYNOPTIC writers would account for any similarity (An Introduction to the Study of the Gospels). But the similarity seems too great not to postulate some sort of literary depend-ence among the SYNOPTIC gospels. This is especially true of the similarity in the order of the peric-opes and, in particular, the order of the triple tradition. It seems unlikely that the individual units of oral tradition would have been passed on in a set order, since the order of pericopes in the syn-optic gospels is generally non-chronological.

The Synoptic Problem 3 Augustine’s explanation of the literary relationships among the synoptic gospels prevailed universally until the rise of modern, Protestant scholarship in the 18 th …

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