This volume contains the acts of the international conference on the
Synoptic Problem that was organised at Lincoln College, Oxford, in April
2008. The conference focused on offering a comprehensive assessment of
the state of research into the Synoptic Problem over the last hundred
years, indicating potential ways in which the discussion might be
advanced. In more than thirty essays contributors have dealt with
various aspects of the question, including the current state of synoptic
studies in general, a comparative assessment of the major synoptic
hypotheses, the synoptic gospels and ancient scribal practices, the role
and function of hypothetical sources, the synoptic gospels and other
gospels, and the reception history of the research. This volume marks
the centenary of the publication of the Studies in the Synoptic Problem
by Members of the University of Oxford, the results of William Sanday's
Seminar that had ran for some fifteen years. But primarily it honours a
distinguished contributor to current scholarship on the Synoptic
Problem, Christopher M. Tuckett, Professor of New Testament studies at
the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College.