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Alan Garrow has also posted the PDF of his recent piece, 'Frame and Fill and Matthew's Use of Luke' from The Synoptic Problem 22 volume edited by Olegs Andrejevs on his blog here: https://www.alangarrow.com/blog/what-would-plutarch-josephus-and-tatian-do I think the argument of the piece is really w...

Alan Garrow has posted a PDF of his contribution "'Frame and Fill' and Matthew's use of Luke', from the book Synoptic Problem 2022, edited by Olegs Andrejevs et al. (i.e., the volume to which I linked above) to Facebook's Synoptic Problem Study Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/21299220639...

Is the claim the Luke keeps to the Markan order and does not change the order of events in Mark true? Let’s look at five cases. 1) Luke omits Mark 6.17-29 about the death of John the Baptist, but he brings forward the first part (Mark 6.17) about John’s arrest to Luke 3.19-20 so that John is arreste...

One of the complexities of Lukan composition is the so-called Mark-Q overlaps. These are triple tradition passages in which there are extensive agreements (not just a word or three) between Matthew and Luke against Mark. These would include the Baptism, the Temptation, the Beelzebul Pericope, The Pa...

I would recommend James Barker's chapter 'The Use of Sources in Ancient Composition" in the recently published Oxford Handbook of the Synoptic Gospels (2023) edited by Stephen P. Ahearn-Kroll. Barker is not directly trying to answer the question of the distinctive characteristics of scroll user...

First of all, thank you for this discussion. I am actually learning a lot. I appreciate it. Equally. The Matthean posteriority hypothesis needs a lot fewer things to be true to predict the relevant data of Matthew and Luke: (1) Markan priority (2) Luke is a scroll user (not predicted by 1) (3) Matt...

Alan Garrow considers that there are different limitations in the use of scrolls that don't apply with the use of codexes. Garrow considers that scroll users "paraphrase rather than copy verbatim," "rarely change source order," and "switch between sources infrequently"...

I was again intending to write a longer post, but I'll see if I can get the point across in a brief one. Garrow borrows one the traditional arguments for the 2DH that posits that it is more likely that Matthew rearranged Luke's order than that Luke rearranged Matthew's order. We can deduce this beca...

Re: "Garrow generalizes about ‘scroll users’ and ‘codex users’ giving remarkably few examples (Josephus and Tatian, and then Luke and Matthew). According to Garrow, Luke trends to paraphrase like Josephus (the 'scroll user’), while Matthew is more likely to copy verbatim (as a 'codex user').&q...

I started a long post responding to Garrow’s third video, ‘Scrolls Are So Last Century’, but I realize that will take a long time to write and I may never finish, so I will post shorter individual criticisms and may convert them into a blog post later. So, first criticism: Garrow oversimplifies the ...