Abstract
Two recently published books by James Dunn and Delbert Burkett, Jesus Remembered and Rethinking the Gospel Sources , pose critical challenges to the two-document hypothesis. Dunn's advocacy of oral tradition(s) to account for a significant proportion of the synoptic tradition militates against the two-document hypothesis, despite his continuing adherence to it. Burkett's arguments against direct literary relations between any of the synoptic gospels and his hypothetical reconstruction of a number of pre-canonical gospel sources, including three separate written versions of Proto-Mark, constitute a direct assault on the two-document hypothesis. Despite significant differences between Dunn and Burkett, the combined effect of their respective challenges to re-conceive the interrelations between the synoptic gospels is the inadequacy of the two document hypothesis as traditionally understood and taught.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 78-92 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Pacifica: Australasian theological studies |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |