It has just come to my attention that Kent Brower via the Journal for the Study of the New Testament offered a review of my book Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem last year, in JSNT 45.5, and it is pleasantly positive.
I have no contact information by which to thank him, or to respond to the very mild critique in the last sentence, so I’ll do it here:
Much of his detailed work is illuminating to this conversation; would
it have been enhanced by engagement with Bauckham, Bond, Breytenbach or Burridge, to name but four?
Most likely, but it would have required Chapter 1 to be twice as long, or I would have had to add a separate chapter solely on gospel “genre.” My dissertation covered more ground on the dangerously broad genre question to which the B-surnames are all drawn. For the book, I chose to keep the survey of the SP nasty, brutish, and short.