Other parallel gospels exist, including some that give John a (mostly blank) column. I have probably purchased at least three as gifts in the last year. Since it's been decades now that this handy reference and study aid has been out, copies should be readily available in used book stores. When you buy this book be sure to get the edition corresponding to your edition of the RSV, either the older RSV one we used or the New Revised Standard Version. If you haven't done this for yourself already, then don't get Throckmorton-or at least don't open it.Īfter you have dealt with "the synoptic problem" on your own, Throckmorton is a godsend as it portrays the results of your work in neat columns with helpful footnotes and reference to the other, very different, gospel, that of John. A salutory exercise, it will convince you that the mainstream of biblical criticism is correct, that Mark, or something close to Mark, and some sort of lost collection of the sayings of Jesus were at hand when the authors of Luke and Matthew composed their gospels. A salutory exercise, it will convince you that the mainstream of biblical criticism is correct, that Mark, or something close to Mark, and some sort of lost collection of the sayings of In Walter Wink's "Introduction to the Christian Scriptures" class at Union Theological Seminary in New York we were assigned the task of going through the four canonical gospels, magic markers in hand, noting the parallels that existed between two or more of the texts in the Revised Standard Version of the bible. In Walter Wink's "Introduction to the Christian Scriptures" class at Union Theological Seminary in New York we were assigned the task of going through the four canonical gospels, magic markers in hand, noting the parallels that existed between two or more of the texts in the Revised Standard Version of the bible.
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