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France, RT. Matthew: Evangelist and Teacher, Grand Rapids, MI: USA, 1989. I still do not understand about the order of the Synoptic. Why modern scholars disagree that Matthew was written to be the first even though the church fathers and early church Christian believers regarded that Matthew was written to be the first and most important. Why they do not follow the tradition of the early church about it? According to R.T. France, Apostolic Fathers, when they referred to the teaching of Jesus, it was almost exclusively derived from Matthew. There are many evidences of earlier time of the church treat the Matthew importantly. Why modern understanding makes differently? And it is more difficult to accept that the possibility of the Q document, and giving authority to it. It does not include in the Bible, and there is no evidence about the existence of Q.             I agree with that to approach “Matthew without a firm ...

Allen, O. Wesley, Jr. Reading the SynopticGospels: Basic Methods for Interpreting Matthew, Mark, and Luke . St. Louis, MO, Chalice Press, 2013. This book has a good explanation about the term of biblical theology. So I could easily understand, because the author’s general writing is simple and easy. I like the author who write an easy sentence even though he has great knowledge. This book is really helpful to me, I think not only to me also to the word lover who desire to dig well the meaning of the word of God.   First of all, it was very helpful to know how to establish the pericope, because it was very difficult to build the text for me especially the books of the Gospel. And I can sense that the author really wants to help his readers to be prepared well for the exegesis of God’s word. He suggests that we need to understand all the vocabulary, references in the periscope, and also the historical, social background of course. For this, he gives us g...