Mark S. Goodacre (born 1967 in

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, England) is a

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scholar and Professor at

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's Department of Religion. He has written extensively on the Synoptic Problem; that is, the origins of the

gospel Gospel originally meant the Christianity, Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the second century Anno domino, AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message w ...

s of Matthew,

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, and Luke. He has defended the

Farrer hypothesis The Farrer hypothesis (also called the L/M hypothesis, the Farrer–Goulder hypothesis and the Farrer–Goulder–Goodacre hypothesis) is a possible solution to the synoptic problem. The theory is that the Gospel of Mark was written first, follo ...

, and thus accepts

Markan priority Marcan priority (or Markan priority) is the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written, and was used as a source by the other two ( Matthew and Luke). It is a central element in discussion of the ...

but rejects Q. Goodacre earned his M.A., M.Phil. and D.Phil. at the

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and was Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theology and Religion at the

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until 2005. He has also been a consultant for numerous television and radio shows related to the New Testament, such as the 2001 BBC series ''

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'' and the 2013 mini-series ''

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''.

Works

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References

External links

Goodacre's portal on the New Testament
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Goodacre's homepage
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Weblog relating to his field of study

Personal weblog
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