Critical And Exegetical Handbook To The Gospels Of Mark And Luke Vol 2 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Critical and Exegetical Hand-Book to the Gospels of Mark and Luke In other words, when these giants in exegesis leave the solid facts belonging to their own department, and venture into "higher criticism," they simply conjecture, as all must do in a region where there are too few data to warrant a scientific conclusion. Hence the judgment of the one usually offsets the judgment of the other; the earlier "Apostolic source," which Weiss has invented, seems to disprove the existence of the Logia-collection, to which Meyer constantly refers. Both are far too ready to admit "manipulation" and "later tradition," especially in the Gospel of Luke. It is but fair that the reader should have this divergence of views constantly presented to his attention. Certainly the appending of the dissenting opinions of Weiss is far more justifiable than the conduct of the German editor, who in so many cases strikes out Meyer's opinions and substitutes his own. This difference between Weiss and Meyer serves to show that the interdependence of the Synoptic Gospels cannot be proved. The reader is referred to the preface of Prof. Crooks in the volume containing Matthew, for a fuller discussion of the general subject. A lengthened treatise on the Synoptic problem would be out of place here, but in editing this volume I found the question meeting me at every turn. Believing that the Synoptists wrote independently of each other, and that every theory which denies this not only tends to discredit their accuracy, but is contrary to the phenomena presented by the Gospels themselves, I felt warranted in frequently expressing my dissent from both Meyer and Weiss, and in calling attention to the peculiarities of the Greek text, which seem to controvert their opinions. The recovery, as it, may be called, of the correct text has shown us greater verbal variations in the parallel accounts. The Gospels of Mark and Luke (especially the former) have suffered greatly from the "conforming" tendencies of the transcribers. Hence the importance of showing the bearing of the final differences upon the solution of the Synoptic problem. My duty as editor did not allow me to do this in detail, but reference is frequently made to the class of facts named above. No judgment adverse to that of Meyer, I may add, has been expressed, which is not based upon a minute and repeated comparison of the passages in question, as they appear in the best-attested text. Any emphasis of dissent is due to the conviction that the "sources" of a truly "historical" criticism of the Gospels must be found in the canonical Gospels themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.