Bonus 25: The Mysterious Q Source

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The three synoptic gospels are markedly different from John. It is clear that both Matthew and Luke used Mark. But Matthew and Luke have much material in common. Most scholars think they have a common source, the mysterious "Q". Others think one evangelist copied the other. Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast and I tackle the issue.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:19.7	Giday.
0:24.2	I'm Gary Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast.
0:27.4	Around the time of the American Revolution,
0:32.7	theology professors first noted that the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke were radically different to the Gospel of John.
0:36.5	These three came to be known as
0:38.4	synoptic gospels, having the same view.
0:42.4	They share the same stories,
0:44.8	often in exactly the same words.
0:48.2	The Gospels of Matthew and Luke
0:49.7	also share sayings and parables not found in Mark.
0:57.3	Again, often, in exactly the same words.
1:04.8	How are the synoptic gospels related? The only way to explore that question is with the Moriarty of biblical scholarship, my old mate Stephen Guerra of the History of the Papersie podcast.
1:10.9	Hey, you know and Steve.
1:11.9	I'm great.
1:13.9	This is a great topic.
1:16.7	We're going to try and make it as simple as possible, but it's probably not going to work
1:23.4	out.
1:24.4	So we'll just do our best.
1:26.4	We're sort of confused about it ourselves, really.
1:29.3	As is the biblical scholarship community, so I think we're in good stead again.
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