Word: mcmaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most open-ended solution to the whole question is E.P. Sanders' work, The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition, which concludes that none of the three Synoptic Gospels can be proved to have come first. Sanders, of Ontario's McMaster University, makes a systematic test of the usual criteria for what is early or late in Christian documents. Material is generally considered to be later, for instance, as it increases in length, detail, and direct discourse, and decreases in Jewish influence. Sanders contends that none of these tests is conclusive. As each Gospel developed, he found, descriptions of individual...