Now available: Published by Broadman & Holman in
December 2010
The
Progressive Publication of Matthew’s Gospel
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The
Progressive Publication of Matthew’s
Gospel presents an explanation of
the relationship between Matthew,
Mark and Luke that shows how the
Gospels have originated from
documents first written by the
apostle Matthew.
- For a detailed
summary of some of the relationships see
this conference paper:
presented
paper,
diagrammatic
summary.
- The full scale
explanation was published by Broadman and
Holman in 2010.
- For a preview of
this explanation, read now the first
chapter of this book:
Chapter 1
(PDF).
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Endorsements
"The Progressive
Publication of Matthew is a tour de force both
in its scope and depth. No serious student of
the synoptic Gospels can afford to ignore it."
Dr David
Alan Black
Professor of New
Testament and Greek, Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary
Author of Why Four Gospels?
"For a very
long time, Markan priority was taught in Bible
colleges and seminaries as the standard and
universally accepted position. The
possiblity of another view was simply not
considered or at best dismissed as weak and
unconvincing. In this book, Ward Powers
has presented some very strong arguments that
Matthew and not Mark was the first Gospel book
to be written. The voice of Matthean
priority is loud and clear in his The
Progressive Publication of Matthew. This
book should be required reading for all Bible
teachers and students on Synoptic scholarship."
Dr Samuel
Waje Kunhiyop
Professor and Head
of the Postgraduate School, South African
Theological Seminary
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Fresh research, advancing further the work of
numerous scholars over a great many decades,
points convincingly to a new basis for
explaining the Synoptic Problem: the Gospel of
Matthew was published in stages.
Scholars have long
debated the Synoptic Problem--questions about
why and how the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and
Luke share so much common material, and yet
differ in so many ways.
Assessing
all the primary evidence, and the widely
differing scholarly views about the
Synoptic Problem, B. Ward Powers draws
attention to the evidence pointing to Matthew's
Gospel having been published progressively, with
identifiable sections of his material then being
seen and utilized by Luke. After both of these
Gospels had been published in their current
form, they together with the preaching of the
Apostle Peter were the three sources used by
Mark in producing a special-purpose Gospel for
preachers and evangelists.
The
Progressive Publication of Matthew fleshes out this
proposal, measuring it in detail against other
hypotheses. This book also sets out a
clarification of the reason and purpose of
Mark's Gospel, and a comprehensive explanation
of pericope order in all three Synoptics.
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