"Eric Eve walks students through the complex thickets of Synoptic Puzzle scholarship with clarity and grace, plausibly arguing that Matthew used Mark's Gospel and that Luke used both Mark and Matthew. Solving the Synoptic Puzzle is persuasive and compelling, a rare gem that leaves the reader wanting more."
--Mark Goodacre, Duke University

"Eric Eve covers every important aspect of the Synoptic Problem fairly and expertly, and with minimal jargon. He presents a powerful case for dispensing with the hypothetical Q source, in favor of taking Luke to be dependent on both Mark and Matthew. Although Eve discusses Luke's motivations with due openness to a range of views, he delivers a convincing explanation of the whys and hows of Luke's task as a gospel writer."
--John C. Poirier, coeditor of Marcan Priority without Q

"Eric Eve's Solving the Synoptic Puzzle offers a clear and balanced discussion of the Synoptic Problem. The appeal of the book, both for the teacher and the student, is that it presents the Synoptic Problem with its complexity in a remarkably clear, accessible, and balanced fashion. Competing synoptic hypotheses are given their due while Eve makes a credible case for the Farrer hypothesis."
--John S. Kloppenborg, University of Toronto

"All too easily the Q hypothesis becomes the Q document, a genuine early Christian text that modern scholars claim to have recovered from the texts of Matthew and Luke. In this clear and compelling book, Eric Eve demonstrates both the weakness of standard arguments for Q and the plausibility of an alternative scenario: that Luke shares specific material and broader emphases with Matthew because he found them in Matthew."
--Francis Watson, Durham University, and author of Gospel Writing