Lord's Prayer Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Relationship between the Matthaean and Lucan texts=== In [[biblical criticism]], the absence of the Lord's Prayer in the [[Gospel of Mark]], together with its occurrence in Matthew and Luke, has caused scholars who accept the [[two-source hypothesis]] (against other [[Synoptic problem|document hypotheses]]) to conclude that it is probably a ''[[Logia|logion]]'' original to the [[Q source]].{{Sfn|Farmer|1994|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=KkO4qzxHrsEC&pg=PA49 49]}} The common source of the two existing versions, whether Q or an oral or another written tradition, was elaborated differently in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Marianus Pale Hera considers it unlikely that either of the two used the other as its source and that it is possible that they "preserve two versions of the Lord's Prayer used in two different communities: the Matthean in a Jewish Christian community and the Lucan in the Gentile Christian community".{{Sfn|Hera|2019|pp=80β81}} If either evangelist built on the other, [[Joachim Jeremias]] attributes priority to Matthew on the grounds that "in the early period, before wordings were fixed, liturgical texts were elaborated, expanded and enriched".{{Sfn|Jeremias|1964|p=11}} On the other hand, Michael Goulder, Thomas J. Mosbo and Ken Olson see the shorter Lucan version as a reworking of the Matthaean text, removing unnecessary verbiage and repetition.{{Sfn|Olson|2015|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=WQ90BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 101β118]}} The Matthaean version has completely ousted the Lucan in general Christian usage.{{Sfn|Leaney|1956|p=104}} The following considerations are based on the Matthaean version. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page