Abstract:In 1965, F. Gerald Downing first outlined the phenomenon that subsequently became known as Luke’s “unpicking” of his Matthean source—a frequent procedure whereby Luke, under the Farrer Hypothesis, appears to excise some of Matthew’s Markan material when copying Matthew’s non-Markan text. In the ensuing decades, Downing’s observations were seconded by a number of scholars supporting the Two-Document Hypothesis. Recently, Ken Olson (2004) and Eric Eve (2021) have responded to Downing from the position of the Far… Show more
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