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It should be noted that all four gospels refer to "the day of preparation." However, they are not all referring to the same day. The synoptic gospels are referring to Friday, the day of preparation for the Sabbath. The Sabbath is always on a Saturday with Friday being its day of preparation. However, the first day of Passover, Nissan 15, could fall on any day of the week, but in this case it just happened to fall on Friday, the day of preparation for the Sabbath.
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The files involved in this presentation of the gospels are very large, roughly 150kb per gospel. This means that they take a while to load. If you have a slow connection, they may take a very long time to load. Graphics are not the problem. To run all five Gospels takes only 25k of graphics (less than 5% of the total data). For this reason you cannot significantly speed up operations by turning off automatic image loading.
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[One] genre that has been suppressed is that of gospel harmonies, in which the apparent discrepancies in the canonical four gospels were selectively recast to present a harmoniously consistent narrative text. Very few fragments of harmonies survived. The Diatessaron was such a harmonization, compiled by Tatian around 175. It was popular for at least two centuries in Syria, but eventually it fell into disuse.
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A painting of the gospel’s Evangelist is followed by a ‘carpet’ page, so-called because the whole page is covered with intricate pattern. Next is the ‘incipit’ page, that is, an opening page in which the first letters of the gospels are greatly elaborated with interlacing and spiral patterns strongly influenced by Anglo-Saxon jewellery and enamel work.
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Dr. James Arlandson continues his series on the Gospels, this time focusing on the oral traditions behind the writing of the Gospels. As usual, this is a substantive post with lots of information and lots of links. Thanks, Jim, for this excellent post!
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After having been incorporated into at least three actively used gospels, Q appears to have become an obsolete document, and was discarded. No surviving copies exist. Theologians have had to reconstruct it by analyzing Matthew and Luke. More details on this Gospel are available.
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