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Mark Goodacre is a British academic and a specialist in the history and literature of the New Testament.

Goodacre is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Department of Religion at Duke University.

Born in Leicestershire, England, he earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford and was Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham until 2005.

He is best known for his work on the Synoptic Problem, and for his website The New Testament Gateway. Goodacre is editor of the Library of New Testament Studies book series (formally JSNTS) and the author of several books including The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze (London & New York: T & T Clark, 2001), The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas 's Familiarity with the Synoptics  (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012).