Scholars who rely on the literary interdependency of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as naturally as they depend on the law of gravity will find Eta Linnemann's premises astonishing: what is called the Synoptic problem has never been impartially investigated. It cannot be proven. In fact the Synoptic problem does nor exist. Linnemann a student of Rudolf Bultman and Ernst Fuchs broke with higher-critical scholarship and wrote Historical Criticism of the Bible to rebuke its abuse of Scripture. Is There a Synoptic Problem? offers a specific example.