You can read the entire interview: Interview with David Alan Black. A good deal of the interview relates to Dr. Black’s view of gospel authorship.
Posted here. Takeaway? “… a short book with a big punch.”
10:12 AM On the original motivation for Matthew: As soon as the first wave of converts had been baptized and their instruction organized by the Twelve, the apostles’ thoughts turned to the practical question of how to unify and consolidate their teaching about Jesus. The apostles realized that they somehow needed to promulgate those passages…
https://youtu.be/vW4mYR-h95g (must be watched on YouTube).
10:41 AM On dispensing with “Q”: One problem that arises is that of the existence of Q. We cannot confront this issue here, for the complexity of such a task would be significant enough to warrant a book of its own. However, as we have seen, the Fourfold-Gospel Hypothesis permits us to dispose with Q…
Mark Stevens at the Near Emmaus blog has begun a review series on Why Four Gospels?. Be sure to go check it out. He’s going to do these in a series of posts called “Black Tuesdays.” Here’s an idea, Mark. What if we send you two other books by Dave Black, also published by Energion,…
Tim Henderson may be changing his mind, though not to the fourfold gospel hypothesis. It does appear, however, that he may abandon Q. It’s possible that the “Farrer-Goulder-Goodacre-Watson hypothesis” now has two many names in its title. 🙂