Harmonization of Gospels

Nichael Cramer nichael at sover.net
Fri Jun 26 16:20:58 EDT 1998


Theodore H. Mann wrote:

> Greetings B-Greekers.
> 
> Can anyone direct me to an harmonization of the gospels that integrates
> all four documents into one single narrative (as opposed to four columns
> laid side-by-side)?  I think this should be handled off-list.  Many
> thanks.

Ted

It's a little difficult to know what you are asking for here.  No such
genuine harminization could be written because --given the well known
contradictions and inconsitencies in the four Gospels-- there is no "one
single narrative".

There are certainly many popular "stories of Jesus, that attempt to do 
this (one thinks, for example, of "The Greatest Story ever Told" --the
tradition reaches back to Tatian). But such books only work because they
explicitly gloss over or --more often-- simply omit such difficulties. 

One could _image_ a single text that was filled with passages like "At
this point Jesus did X according to Mark, but he said Y according to
John".  But such complexities are surely more easily handled in a
"side-by-side" (more properly "Synoptic") lay-out.

Nichael

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