Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / David E. Orton -- Preface / DEO -- Places of Original Publication / David E. Orton -- ‘Q’ is Only What You Make It / Stewart Petrie -- A Modified Two-Document Theory of the Synoptic Dependence and Interdependence / R. L. Lindsey -- Form Criticism and the Synoptic Problem / Štefan Porúbčan S. J. -- A Statistical Study of the Synoptic Problem / A. M. Honoré -- Anmerkungen Eines Aussenseiters zum Synoptikerproblem / Alfred Jepsen -- Some Observations on the Synoptic Problem and the use of Statistical Procedures / John J. O’rourke -- The Nature and Extent of the Q-Document / Petros Vassiliadis -- A Text-Critical Look at the Synoptic Problem / Gordon D. Fee -- The Beatitudes: A Source-Critical Study. / C. M. Tuckett and M. D. Goulder -- Matthean Posteriority: A Preliminary Proposal / Ronald V. Huggins -- A Problem Still Clouded: Yet Again—Statistics and “Q” / Sharon L. Mattila -- Criteria For Identifying Q-Passages / Adelbert Denaux -- Index of Authors / David E. Orton -- Index of Biblical References / David E. Orton.

When Stewart Petrie wrote in 1959 that 'the whole Synoptic question should be thrown back into the melting-pot', he was responding to what he saw as the fanciful and mutually contradictory attempts to solve a problem that had occupied New Testament scholars from the earliest days of biblical criticism. The 'Q' solution obscured more than it clarified, since there was no scholarly agreement on its extent, even on the assumption of its erstwhile existence. By means of its 'snap-shot' articles from the generation following Petrie’s whimsical comments, this collection makes it possible to follow the course of the discussion in the subsequent forty years. Now, after a generation of study by many of the best scholarly minds, a consensus of sorts is beginning to emerge. Nonetheless, as Sharon Mattila’s recent article shows, the question is 'A Problem Still Cloude', and the debate very much alive.

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