The Case Against Q: Studies in Marcan Priority and the Synoptic Problem

Mark Goodacre's The Case Against Q, published by Trinity Press International in 2002, is a peer-reviewed scholarly monograph arguing for the Farrer hypothesis, that Luke used Matthew directly, against the majority view that Matthew and Luke both drew on a lost sayings source called Q. Its strength is that it is a rigorous, closely argued academic study by a recognized New Testament scholar. Its limit is that it represents the minority position in an ongoing and genuinely unresolved scholarly debate over the Synoptic Problem, so a claim treating Q's existence, or its absence, as settled needs to be corrected against that live disagreement.