How did the gospel-writer Matthew (not the apostle Matthew) form his gospel from the Greek Logia?
On the LTH, basically the gospel-writer Matthew formed his gospel by omitting about one third of the material of the Greek Logia. The gospel-writer Matthew must have retained especially material which seemed to relate to Jewish customs and beliefs, and to omit some material which seemed to relate to non-Jews. The gospel-writer Matthew must have edited the order of the material he used, particularly the order of the discourse material, so that his gospel partly consists of a series of alternate blocks of discourse and narrative provided with introductory formulas. He also edited, more drastically than Mark, the wording of the material he took from the Greek Logia. The gospel-writer Matthew to some extent impressed his own style and understanding onto the material he selected from the Greek Logia. In his editing, the gospel-writer Matthew supplied some “proof texts” from the Old Testament, though others were taken from the Greek Logia. (13) Is there a feasible life-setting in which the G
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