04-09-2007, 08:48 PM | #28 | |
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The crux of the analysis is that "Mark," "Luke" and "Matthew" were writing some 40+ years--at least--after Jesus' death, they weren't the "apostles" described in the Gospels, and they were relying on secondary sources. Whether you call those sources Q or L/M strikes me as largely speculation and somewhat beside the point. But now Pelagius has enlightened me that Q is a device developed by Christian scholars to try to take the accounts of Jesus' life and works back closer to first hand accounts of Jesus' life and death. By the way, if you give Q any credence you need to qualify that Mark it the first canonized Gospel. In any event, knowing human nature and the way things work, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there were prior versions of the Gospels that are no longer extant, whether you want to call them Q or A or B or C or XYZ or whatever.
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