Luke's Semitic Style

Mark Goodacre M.S.GOODACRE at bham.ac.uk
Mon May 17 11:19:03 EDT 1999


On 17 May 99 at 10:06, Jim West wrote:

> The rest of Luke seems a bit more semitic than Mark- but certainly not more so
> than Matthew.  Why?  I think Luke is dependent on sources here- and close
> attention being paid one will notice that the most semitic elements occur
> where Lk has not made use of Mark.  I take this as an indication that Q was a
> semitic source.  And that Luke's special material (called by us old guys "L")
> was also semitic in origin.

Subject, of course, to correction from Carl and Edward, this sounds to me more 
like a Synoptic-L topic than a b-greek one.  If Jim or anyone wants to raise it 
there, I would (for one) be interested in discussing it.

With good wishes

Mark
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