Mark Goodacre’s The Case Against Q: A Retrospect Twenty-Two Years On | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 78, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2542-6583
  • E-ISSN: 2590-3268

Abstract

Abstract

As part of ’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses Mark Goodacre’s influential work, . The book challenges the standard solution to the synoptic problem, the two-document hypothesis, arguing against the existence of Q and for Luke’s use of Matthew. This article takes a critical look back at the book’s main arguments and examines the impact it has had on subsequent scholarship.

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