F.F. Bruce, "Some Aspects of Gospel Introduction (Part 1)," The Evangelical Quarterly 14 (1942): 174-197.
Look out for part 2 next week.
Quotable quote:
In the fascination of tracking down the original oral and documentary sources of our Gospels, the student at times forgets that each Gospel ought primarily to be studied for its own sake, and in the light of the distinctive purpose of each of the four Evangelists. Whereas the sources are largely hypothetical, the Gospels themselves in their present Greek dress are there before our eyes, each an individual literary work with its own characteristic viewpoint, which has in great measure controlled the choice and presentation of the subject-matter. In attempting to discover how they were composed, we must by all means beware of regarding them as mere scissors-and-paste compilations. [p.174]
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