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What Is the Synoptic Problem?
The synoptic problem is this idea of setting the synoptic gospels, matthew, mark and luke, side by side. Why are there two versions of the lord's prayer when there's only one lord? That gets us off the ground in thinking about ok ah, is it a mistake? Is one of them wrong? Did one of them mis copy off at the other? I decide to break it down to kind of a really cutting edge conversation between a more literary view of the relation between the gospels and a more oral tradition view. And so this really helps to use scholarship that's been around for a very long timeo answer some basic questions that people have about