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Book SynopsisFrom the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark focuses on the remarkable overlaps between Jesus’s teachings in the lost Gospel Q and Mark. Dennis R. MacDonald argues Synoptic intertextuality is best explained not as the redaction of sources but more flexibly as the imitation of literary models. Part One applies the criteria of mimesis criticism in a running commentary on Q+ to demonstrate that it polemically imitated Deuteronomy. Part Two argues that Mark in turn tendentiously imitated Logoi. The Conclusion proposes that Matthew and Luke in turn brilliantly and freely imitated both Logoi and Mark and by doing so created scores of duplicate sayings and episodes (doublets).
Table of ContentsPart One: The Logoi of Jesus (Q+) and Deuteronomy Introduction to Part One A Mimetic Commentary on the Logoi of Jesus Conclusion to Part One Part Two: The Gospel of Mark and the Logoi of Jesus (Q+) Introduction to Part Two A Mimetic Commentary on the Gospel of Mark Conclusion to Part Two Conclusion: Solving the Synoptic Wars with Mimesis Criticism Appendix 1: Criteria for Recovering the Lost Gospel Appendix 2: The Logoi of Jesus and its Synoptic Transformations Appendix 3: The Logoi of Jesus in Greek Appendix 4: The Logoi of Jesus in English Appendix 5: Scholars Who Argued that Mark Used Q (with James R. Van Dore)
