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The Case Against Q
Introductory Bibliography

The most important thing is to spend some time studying the Synoptic texts, preferably in Greek. Links to on-line Synopses and Synoptic texts are available from this link to The Gospels and Acts page on The New Testament Gateway. It is also important to read the secondary literature as widely as possible. Some of this material is available on-line; follow the links below. I have also included links to on-line information on other titles wherever possible. See also other useful Synoptic Problem and Q links on The New Testament Gateway. For those requiring some introductory material on the synoptic problem, and for those wanting further and fuller bibliography on other aspects of the synoptic problem, see Stephen Carlson's Synoptic Problem Bibliography.

These are the most important books and articles that expound the Farrer Hypothesis (priority of Mark; no Q):

• John Drury, Luke (The J. B. Phillips' Commentaries, London & Glasgow: Collins, 1973) (quotation available here)
• John Drury, Tradition and Design in Luke's Gospel (London: Darton, Longman and Todd,1976)
• John Drury, The Parables in the Gospels: History and Allegory (London: SPCK, 1985)
• Morton Scott Enslin, Christian Beginnings (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938; reprinted, Harper Torchbooks; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956) (quotations from this work are available here)
• A. M. Farrer, 'On Dispensing with Q' in D. E. Nineham (ed.), Studies in the Gospels: Essays in Memory of R. H. Lightfoot (Oxford: Blackwell, 1955), pp. 55-88 (available here).
• Eric Franklin, Luke: Interpreter of Paul, Critic of Matthew (JSNTSup, 92; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994)
• Mark Goodacre, Goulder and the Gospels: An Examination of a New Paradigm (JSNTSup, 133; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996)
• Mark Goodacre, The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze (The Biblical Seminar, 80; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press / Continuum, 2001)
• Mark Goodacre, The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002)
• Mark Goodacre, 'Fatigue in the Synoptics', NTS 44 (1998), pp. 45-58 (available here)
• Mark Goodacre, "A Monopoly on Marcan Priority? Fallacies at the Heart of Q", Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 2000 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), pp. 583-622 (reproduced here)
• Michael Goulder, Midrash and Lection in Matthew (London: SPCK, 1974)
• Michael Goulder, Luke: A New Paradigm (JSNTSup, 20; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989)
• Michael Goulder, 'On Putting Q to the Test', NTS 24 (1978), pp. 218-24
• Michael Goulder, 'Farrer on Q', Theology 83 (1980), pp. 190-5
• Michael Goulder, 'The Order of a Crank' in C. M. Tuckett (ed.), Synoptic Studies: The Ampleforth Conferences of 1982 and 1983 (JSNTSup, 7; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984), pp. 111- 30
• Michael Goulder, 'Luke's Knowledge of Matthew', in G. Strecker (ed.), Minor Agreements: Symposium Göttingen, 1991 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993), pp. 143-60
• Michael Goulder, 'Is Q a Juggernaut?', JBL 115 (1996), pp. 667-81 (Available to read here)
• Michael Goulder, 'Self Contradiction in the IQP, JBL 118 (1999), pp. 506-17
• H. B. Green, The Gospel According to Matthew (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975)
• H. B. Green, Matthew: Poet of the Beatitudes (JSNTSup, 203; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001)
• H. B. Green, 'The Credibility of Luke's Transformation of Matthew' in C. M. Tuckett (ed.), Synoptic Studies: The Ampleforth Conferences of 1982 and 1983 (JSNTSup, 7; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1984), pp. 131-56
• Edward C. Hobbs, 'A Quarter-Century Without "Q"', Perkins School of Theology Journal 33/4 (1980), pp. 10-19 (available to read here)
• Jonathan Knight, Luke's Gospel (New Testament Readings; London & New York: Routledge, 1998)
• James Hardy Ropes, The Synoptic Gospels (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934; Second Impression with New Preface, London: Oxford University Press, 1960) (key quotations from this work available here)
• E. P. Sanders and M. Davies, Studying the Synoptic Gospels (London: SCM, 1989) (quotations from this work are available here)

This is a selection of some of the most important attempts to defend the Q hypothesis against its critics

• David Catchpole, The Quest for Q (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1993)
• F. Gerald Downing, 'Towards the Rehabilitation of Q', NTS 11 (1964), pp. 169-81
• F. Gerald Downing, 'A Paradigm Perplex: Luke, Matthew and Mark', NTS 38 (1992), pp. 15-36
• J. Fitzmyer, The Gospel According to Luke I-IX (Anchor Bible 28, New York: Doubleday, 1981)
• F. Neirynck, L'Evangile de Luc - The Gospel of Luke (BETL, 32; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1989)
• F. Neirynck, Evangelica: Gospel Studies - Etudes d'évangile: Collected Essays (ed. F. Van Segbroeck; BETL 60, Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1982)
• F. Neirynck, Evangelica II. 1982-91: Collected Essays (ed. F. Van Segbroeck; BETL 99; Louvain: Leuven University Press, 1991)
• Frans Neirynck, 'Goulder and the Minor Agreements', ETL 73 (1997), pp. 84-93
• Mahlon H. Smith, The Canonical Status of Q (on-line article)
• Graham Stanton, A Gospel for a New People: Studies in Matthew (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1992)
• Christopher M. Tuckett, Q and the History of Early Christianity: Studies on Q (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996)
• Christopher M. Tuckett, 'On the Relationship Between Matthew and Luke', NTS 30 (1984), pp. 130-42
• Christopher M. Tuckett (with a response by Michael D. Goulder), 'The Beatitudes: A Source-Critical Study', NovT 25 (1983), pp. 193-216