New Testament Gospels
Oral Traditions and the Dates of Our Gospels
As many of you know, this past year I published the 8th edition of my textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament (Oxford University Press, 2024), but this time, rather than doing it myself, I asked my colleague Hugo Mendez to join me in editing / updating it, and truth be told, since hey, I believe in telling the truth, he did the vast bulk of the work on this one. Most of the changes came in his rewriting sections that needed to be brought up to snuff with current scholarship, including the one dealing with the sources of Synoptics, since a lot of scholars (though not the majority, so far as I can tell) are inclined to think the Q source never existed (including Hugo!) and the entire chapter on the Gospel of John, on which Hugo is a major expert and the paradigm of how to understand it has changed significantly over the past five years or so. In ANY event, one of the features I've always liked [...]