This article proposes that parallel traditions among the Dead Sea Scrolls offer a comparative data-set by which to reassess “the Synoptic problem” in the New Testament gospels. The Dead Sea materials, not only shared traditions but also differences between them, whether in the manuscripts of the same work or overlapping portions of different works, show similarities to the ways in which the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and the putative “Q” overlap and depart from one another. The multiple degrees in which some Dead Sea texts evolved underscore the plausibility that, with or without the influence of oral tradition, texts could change and develop rapidly through literary activity in a relatively short period of time.

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死海古卷：洞察传统过程和福音传统的发展

本文提出，死海古卷中的平行传统提供了一个比较数据集，可以用来重新评估新约福音书中的“对观问题”。死海材料，不仅共享传统，而且它们之间的差异，无论是在同一作品的手稿还是不同作品的重叠部分，都表现出与马可福音、马太福音、路加福音和推定的“ Q”相互重叠和分离。一些死海文本演变的多层次强调了这样一种可能性，即无论有没有口头传统的影响，文本都可以在相对较短的时间内通过文学活动迅速改变和发展。