NT Blog Mark Goodacre’s academic blog. Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University, in the Religious Studies Department. Visit his homepage or contact him by email.
We took his Mysteries of the Synoptic Gospels course at Biblical Studies Academy. See Notes and Slides in his directory in DropBox.
The Mysteries of the Synoptic Gospels – In addition to the links below, the transcripts with embedded slides are in his directory in DropBox.
- Lesson 1: What is a “Gospel”? What are the “Synoptic” Gospels?
- Lesson 2: Was there a “gospel” before the Gospels?
- Lesson 3: Why are the Synoptic Gospels so similar?
- Lesson 4: Why are the Synoptic Gospels so different?
- Quiz 1: Lessons 1 to 4
- Lesson 5: Was Mark the First Gospel?
- Lesson 6: Did Q Exist?
- Lesson 7: Why are Matthew’s and Luke’s Birth Narratives so different?
- Lesson 8: Why are the Synoptic Arrest and Trial Narratives so different?
- Lesson 9: Why are the Synoptic Crucifixion Narratives so different?
- Lesson 10: Why are the Synoptic Ressurrection Stories so different?
- Lesson 11: Who wrote the Synoptic Gospels?
- Lesson 12: When were the Synoptic Gospels written?
- Lesson 13: Why is Jesus so secretive in Mark?
- Lesson 14: Did Matthew try to “re-Judaize” Jesus?
- Lesson 15: Was Luke a historian or a theologian?
- Lesson 16: Why were the Synoptic Gospels written?
Mark Goodacre’s articles called The Dating Game at NTPod are linked below.
- The Dating Game I: Preliminaries – Monday, October 06, 2008
- The Dating Game II: Getting Paul’s letters in order
- The Dating Game III: Getting the Synoptic Gospels in Order
- The Dating Game IV: What about John?
- The Dating Game V: Document and Tradition
- The Dating Game VI: Was Mark written after 70?
- The Dating Game VII: Dating of Matthew and Luke
- The Dating Game VIII: John, Thomas and Authorial Self-Representation
