... Acts to give a fuller view of the author Luke and his thoughts. The main biblical criticism I will be employing to identify the unique material in Luke will be redaction criticism or redaktionsgeschichte. Redaction criticism aims to reveal the changes the author has made to their sources for example the additions, omissions, modifications, and material that the author includes can all be used to highlight the theological perspective of the author. Redaction criticism is inextricably linked to both form and source criticism as they help to identify the sources, both in the written and oral tradition, which the author used. Source criticism aims to study the written source used by the authors of the gospel. What was noticed was that there was a literary connection between the Gospel of Mark, Matthew and Luke as both Luke and Matthew had a great amount of Mark passages included. The exact nature of this ...

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