id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8945 Justin Martyr - Wikipedia .html text/html 15377 1581 72 Aune has argued that the gospels were modeled after classical Greco-Roman biographies, and Justin's use of the term apomnemoneumata to mean all the Synoptic Gospels should be understood as referring to a written biography such as the Memorabilia of Xenophon because they preserve the authentic teachings of Jesus.[45] However, scholar Helmut Koester has pointed out the Latin title "Memorabilia" was not applied to Xenophon's work until the Middle Ages, and it is more likely apomnemoneumata was used to describe the oral transmission of the sayings of Jesus in early Christianity. Justin occasionally uses the Gospel of Matthew directly as a source for Old Testament prophecies to supplement his testimony sources.[50][56] However, the fulfillment quotations from these sources most often appear to be harmonizations of the gospels of Matthew and Luke.[57] Koester suggests that Justin had composed an early harmony along the lines of his pupil Tatian's Diatesseron.[51] However, the existence of a harmony independent of a collection of sayings for exposition purposes has been disputed by scholar Arthur Bellinzoni.[58][59] The question of whether the harmonized gospel materials found in Justin's writings came from a preexisting gospel harmony or were assembled as part of an integral process of creating scriptural prooftexts is an ongoing subject of scholarly investigation.[60] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8945.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8945.txt