The document "L" and its corollaries.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was three-fold: to analyze the sources of St. Luke's Gospel; to study the likelihood of a written source called L; and to study Luke's method of compiling the gospel. This work had its origin in the studies of P. Feine, E. Weiss and others and has reached a new interest in the work of B. H. Streeter. Streeter has produced a "four-document theory" of which one document is L. This study has concentrated on L. L is defined as that part of the canonical gospel of Luke that is not found in Mk., Q, or the birth-stories.