RT Article
T1 The Gospel of the Ebionites and the Synoptic Problem
JF The catholic biblical quarterly
VO 86
IS 2
SP 300
OP 325
A1 Kok, Michael
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1894411277
AB David B. Sloan and James R. Edwards have revived the antique hypothesis that there was a single Gospel according to the Hebrews underlying the diverse patristic testimonies about it and that it was a significant source behind the Synoptic tradition. Specifically, Sloan and Edwards equate this reconstructed text with either Q or L, respectively, two hypothetical sources in B. H. Streeter’s classic solution to the Synoptic Problem. In this article, I defend the common scholarly view that the text known to Epiphanius, which modern scholars entitle as the Gospel of the Ebionites to distinguish it from the Gospel according to the Hebrews, was a Greek text that, at points, harmonizes passages from the Synoptics. I will focus on this Gospel’s baptism narrative to demonstrate that it replicates Matthean and Lucan redactional elements, thus making it unlikely to be the source of the Synoptic double tradition or the Lucan Sondergut.
K1 Gospel of the Ebionites
K1 Synoptic Problem
K1 Redaction Criticism
DO 10.1353/cbq.2024.a924367