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Chapter I the selected four -- Part I-the manuscript tradition -- Chapter II local and standard texts -- Chapter III the texts of the great sees -- Chapter IV the Koridethi ms. And the text of Caesarea -- Chapter V the revised versions of antiquity -- Chapter VI interpolation and assimilation -- The four gospels Part II. -the synoptic problem diagram -- Chapter VII the fundamental solution -- Chapter VIII proto-luke -- Chapter IX a four document hypothesis -- Chapter X the reconstruction of Q (passages assigned to q) -- Chapter XI the minor agreements of Matthew and Luke list of parables -- Chapter XII the lost end of mark -- Part III- the fourth gospel -- Chapter XIII John, mystic and prophet -- Chapter XIV John and the synoptic (parallels of Mark and John) -- Chapter XV the problem of authorship -- Chapter XVI An old man's farewell -- Part IV. Synoptic origins -- Chapter XVII date and local origin of mark and Matthew. Additional note-the date of 1 clement -- Chapter XVIII Luke and Acts -- Appendices I. The origin of various readings -- II. The text of the family -- III. the text of origin on Matthew -- IV. Jerome and the codex sinaiticus -- V. W and the Caesarean text.