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I chuckled when I read this in a student assignment today:<\/p>\n

A common argument,\u00a0 analyzes the lengths of each of the synoptic writers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure that I\u2019ve never come across an attempt to compare the lengths of the writers<\/em> of the Synoptic Gospels. I don\u2019t know how one would go about undertaking such a study, or how it would help resolve the Synoptic problem\u2026 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I chuckled when I read this in a student assignment today: A common argument,\u00a0 analyzes the lengths of each of the synoptic writers. I\u2019m pretty sure that I\u2019ve never come across an attempt to compare the lengths of the writers of the Synoptic Gospels. I don\u2019t know how one would go about undertaking such a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,34,42],"tags":[905,3686,4089,4110,8064,9552,11988,12185,13916],"class_list":["post-14006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel-of-luke","category-gospel-of-mark","category-gospel-of-matthew","category-humor","tag-authors","tag-funny","tag-gospel","tag-gospels","tag-new-testament","tag-problem","tag-students","tag-synoptic","tag-writers"],"yoast_head":"\nSynoptic Length Comparison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I chuckled when I read this in a student assignment today: A common argument,\u00a0 analyzes the lengths of each of the synoptic writers. 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