Review of David Allan Black’s Why Four Gospels? The Historical Origins of the Gospels

Summary David Allan Black’s Why Four Gospels? The Historical Origins of the Gospels is “essentially a popularization” of Bernard Orchard’s “Fourfold Gospel Hypothesis” and a critique of the Markan priority hypothesis.[1]This brief volume is meant primarily for the use of theological students in an academic climate that is uncritically acquiescent to the assumptions of Markan…