Information on the "synoptic problem"

Mickey Farlow

I am doing a research paper and wondered if there is any resource material in logos on the synoptic problem.

Thanks

Mickey Farlow

Mark Smith

Quite a bit. Depends on what you have, but a starting point are the many Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias available in Logos. In addition New Testament Introductions all have sections on this issue. The major Bible Commentaries on any of the synoptic gospels will have information in their introductions about how they have handled the issue. There are also specialized works addressing this issue. So, yes.

If we know what resources you have we might be able to give more specific help.

Graham Owen

Hi Mickey

The answer will depend on what you have available in your library, the attached lists the hits for a search for "synoptic problem" in my library which is built on Platinum.

2330.Basic_Search_for_synoptic_problem.pdf

Pam Larson

I found this resource to be very helpful:

http://www.logos.com/ebooks/details/SYNOPPROB

Logos also has this one, which I haven't read:

http://www.logos.com/ebooks/details/RETHKSYNPROB

It's also helpful to refer to a synopsis of the gospels. An English version by Jeffrey Jackson comes with all the base packages. The Greek version by Kurt Aland comes with Scholars and above.

Todd Phillips

Mickey Farlow said:

I am doing a research paper and wondered if there is any resource material in logos on the synoptic problem.

Thanks

Mickey Farlow

A search in Logos.com has several results for specific resources: http://www.logos.com/search?q=synoptic+problem

Here are a few:

Rethinking the Synoptic Problem

The Synoptic Problem: A Way through the Maze

Rethinking the Gospel Sources: From Proto-Mark to Mark

 

Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/187292#Comment_187292

If you have not done so already, "Synoptic problem" is specific enough as a search term (in quotation marks) to produce specific and relevant results out the resources you may have already. Just search your entire library for it. I tried it before writing this and liked the results.

I am not sure whether it is referred to specifically as the synoptic problem in NT Wright's Jesus and the Victory of God but I found more down-to-earth and realistic (as opposed to completely abstract models), his reflections on the real life setting of Jesus' teaching and works. Among these was the more than reasonable view that in a day in which there was no mass communication for broadcast, would Jesus have only preached once an important topic? And if not, would He have necessarily used the same wording? Would not some of the wording have been identical (as when we preach the same sermon several times but without sticking to a manuscript)? I am not writing this to open it for debate but just to let you know -- if you don't know already -- that Wright interacts with these questions which are connected to the questions of the synoptic problem.