...since I would like to talk more diffusely in this thread about the recent book by MacDonald.
He writes:
Interpreters who grant Synoptic imitations of Homer, must also accept the compositional chronology: Mark --> Luke-Acts --> Marcion's Evangelion.
(Must the Synoptics Remain a Problem?, p. 12)
There is only an argument covering only a page.
Basically, MacDonald sees an enormous contradiction in both Mark and canonical Luke expanding sistematically the Homeric mimesis found already in *Ev (but only occasionally).
I don't understand the argument in the exact sense of the verb "understand". I would be grateful to someone who can explain me the point. I can show the screenshot of the pages of interest (half of p.10, the entire p. 11 and half of p. 12).