Evangelists' Calendar

"Evangelists' Calendar" by M.D. Goulder, published by SPCK Publishing. from the PREFACE This book is a revised and expanded form of the first six Speaker's Lectures in Biblical Studies, delivered in Trinity College, Oxford, in the summer of 1972. I was elected Speaker's Lecturer originally for three years, 1968-71, to present the thesis that Matthew had no other considerable source but Mark, which he elaborated mid- rashically. During the first of these years, a second idea occurred to me, that it was possible to give a more convincing account of the arrangement of Matthew than was available, on the assumption that the Gospel was a lectionary book—that is, a series of liturgical Gospels for the Saturdays and feasts of a Jewish-Christian Year, taken in order. I was able to incorporate this suggestion into the 1970 and 1971 Lectures, and the whole Matthaean thesis was published in 1974 under the title Midrash and Lection in Matthew. At every step, the claims I had been making for Matthew involved the consideration of Luke. This had been so from the beginning, for if Matthew had only Mark and no Q, the Q material in Luke could be explained only on the hypothesis that Luke derived it from Matthew. The problem here was not to show the Lucan versions of Q-sayings to be secondary—for which I was able to produce arguments—but to account for the changes that Luke would then have made in the Matthaean order. Here again, it was a lectionary thesis which pro.vided a neat solution to the difficulty: only whereas Matthew had been concerned principally to provide Discourses to fit the themes of the Jewish-Christian Feasts, Luke was attempting something more elaborate in a weekly story 'ful- filling* the Saturday Old Testament lesson. I provided a sketch of such a theory in the last chapter of my Matthaean book, and asked the Electors for an extension of two years (the maximum) to discuss the topic more fully. This they granted, and in 1972 I attempted to establish the background of O.T. readings in the first century. In 1973 I applied the resulting pattern to the exegesis of Luke as a whole. ... Book details: 348 pages, published 1978. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.