[OBW]

Yes. I think that this is something that the heavy theologians haggle over for the purpose of getting at the minutia when what we, the little people, need has nothing to do with the synoptic problem.

I'm not sure that figuring out the order of things is really that meaningful. And no matter how smart we think we are, we are further removed from it than anyone who held a different opinion in the past, who may have still not known, but instead just concluded for some reason.

I would not say that Nigel's essay is useless, but its usefulness is not really related to me.

And since he is more concerned with whether Lee got it right than whether it really matters, he might be worse than me at creating reasons to despise Lee (although I disagree with that charge).