Marcan priority (or Markan priority) is the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written, and was used...

was drawn from the early Church's oral gospel traditions. Along with Marcan priority, Q was hypothesized by 1900, and is one of the foundations of most...

attempts to solve the synoptic problem by advancing two propositions, Marcan priority to explain the triple tradition, and the existence of a lost Q document...

solution has been found yet, the longstanding majority view favors Marcan priority, in which both Matthew and Luke have made direct use of the Gospel...

Matthew. Thus, it posits Marcan priority and Matthaean posteriority. Gottlob Christian Storr, in his 1786 argument for Marcan priority, asked, if Mark was...

hypothesis, in contrast, is based largely on the internal evidence for Marcan priority. Since the two-source hypothesis does not accept the conjecture of...

have accepted the concept of Marcan priority, although a number of scholars support different forms of Marcan priority or reject it altogether. It forms...

Matthew and Luke. In a 1992 paper, Farmer suggested the movement for Marcan priority originated as an effect of the German Kulturkampf in the 1870s, a political...

Matthew and Luke. It is widely accepted that this was the first gospel (Marcan Priority) and was used as a source by both Matthew and Luke, who agree with...

reply, why he should: "Is it surprising that he should lay his plan on Marcan foundations, and quarry St. Matthew for materials to build up his house...