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1). Poster/Leaflet is available on the www.churchinhistory.org web site. 2) Why Four Gospels? By David Allan Black, ISBN 0825420709 (2001). The author of this book is a leading Baptist professor of Greek at South Eastern Baptist University. Black agrees with Orchard’s theories and, while the book presents Black’s own convictions, it provides a good popular digest of Orchard’s ideas. 3). Authors of the Gospels (According to the Clementine Tradition)(html & pdf ) by Dennis Barton, (2004). As well as providing a detailed explanation of Orchard’s ideas, the author includes quotations from the early Christian historians. He also provides recent research regarding the early history of the Gospels from other reliable sources. The author suggests that by accepting Orchard’s ideas, the way is opened to solving other Scriptural problems. The effect Markan Priority has had on Catholic Catechetics and in dividing Protestants into Fundamentalists and Liberals is also discussed. This 120-page booklet is available free in html and pdf at: www.churchinhistory.org It has two associated leaflets and another showing why it is important to use a reliable translation of Dei Verbum, such as that available on the Vatican web site. In the early Church, Clement of Alexandria declared that Matthew and Luke were the first to write Gospels. The author has used: ‘The Clementine Tradition’ as an umbrella description to cover all theories which support the Matthew-Luke-Mark sequence. 4). The International Institute for Gospel Study (The 2gh Research Group). As mentioned above, 2gh was founded in 1982 to promote the theory that Mark’s Gospel was based on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. But within a few years Dom Bernard found his approach differed from the other members. Orchard placed great value on the evidence provided by early Christian historians and the teaching of the Church. But most 2gh members were American Protestants who knew that most fellow Protestants would accept internal evidence only. The 2gh researchers have continued to make the case for the Matthew-Luke-Mark sequence based on the interior evidence within the Gospels alone. They are making steady progress, as shown in their publications. Their web site is: www.Colby.edu/rel/2gh/ 5). Archbishop [Later Cardinal] Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, opened the 2005-6 academic year at the Athenaeum of St.Anselm. He took the opportunity to call for a more accurate translation of Dei Verbum. Comment: When published, this may provide an opportune moment for Rome to bring the teaching of Scripture, back to the traditional acceptance of the historicity of the Gospels. For those Catholics who have been taught to see Fundamentalism as the only alternative to the ‘Scientific’ Markan Priority theory, this could be difficult to accept. 6). Scripture– A book by Ronald D. Witherup (2006) –is part of the ‘Rediscovering Vatican II’ series of books. Comment: A critique of this Markan priority view of Dei Verbum, is available. 7). A Book: Trustworthy and True- The Gospels beyond 2000 by Adrian Graffy (2001). A review of this book is available.
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