Category: Luke
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In Honour of Jesus: Objectivity Is Overrated (Eyewitnesses and the Gospel)
In January of last year, I did an issue on the authorship of John’s gospel, based on a book by Richard Bauckham (the answer, it turned out, is not as simple as that phrase, the author of John, might suggest). I finished with this statement, a mental note to myself: “On my reading list: Richard…
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The Synoptic Problem
Matthew, Mark, and Luke have much in common, especially when compared with John. These three are therefore called the synoptic gospels (from Greek syn = together and opsis = view or seeing), since they provide a similar view of Jesus. The synoptic problem asks how this similarity can be explained. Biblical scholars have formulated numerous…