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So I'm not going to teach that
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this author was an eyewitness of any of the stuff that he writes about,
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but certainly he's not an eyewitness of the stuff that
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happens in the Gospels, as he also says.
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That's one thing that it tells us.
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This also tells us that this is a compilation of sources.
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Now already, when you've been working on the synoptic problem
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and how to write an exegesis paper,
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you have figured out that the Gospel writers used other sources.
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Some of them are written sources, some of them are oral sources.
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This guy actually admits it up front, so it sounds like he's
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using both written sources and oral sources.