None of the 2SH, 2GH models reduced to the canonical texts of the Gospel explain complicated content dependencies. They all have their own intractable problems. Klinghardt and Vinzent brought another evangelist into being and proposed *Ev as the first gospel. For Klinghardt it was some unknown ghost writer, for Vinzent – Marcion himself. They have not convinced their colleagues who claim that Luke is the author of *Ev. *Ev itself is a compilation of texts by various authors.
Grzegorz Wingert directed my attention to models of many sources by Boismard, Rolland and Burkett.
They assume the existence of many hypothetical sources and hypothetical variants of intermediate compilation with a large number of interactions to arrive at the Gospel texts of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John.
Everything can be solved in this way and that is why I rejected these hypotheses earlier. You draw more boxes and arrows between them without any evidence.
Well, I made an obvious mistake.
I looked again at the Venn diagrams for the synoptic gospels, content statistics, and Boismard’s comprehensive diagram and Burkett’s partial diagrams, and a revelation came.
The Synoptic Gospels are not the work of any independent authors, working in different places and in different times.
This is teamwork, and it’s one team at that.
In this team, the M, L, Mt content was written by ghost writers who had access to the same sources and to their colleagues’ current productions. There is no order -. they worked in parallel.
The content was mixed and assembled by editors and released to the market. * Ev was the first product known to us because it was used on a larger scale
Marcion was the first to use *Ev, succeeded, and created a boom that allowed next rapid gospel development by the same team working together.