S8 Ep246: THE Q SOURCE AND MARY'S TEACHINGS Colleague James Tabor. Tabor identifies the "Q" source as a collection of ethical teachings shared by Matthew and Luke. He attributes these core values—such as charity and humility—to a family tradition taught by Mary to

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THE Q SOURCE AND MARY'S TEACHINGS Colleague James Tabor. Tabor identifies the "Q" source as a collection of ethical teachings shared by Matthew and Luke. He attributes these core values—such as charity and humility—to a family tradition taught by Mary to Jesus, James, and John the Baptizer, aiming to restore Mary'shistorical influence as a teacher. NUMBER 8
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0:00.0	I'm John Batchel with Professor James Tabor, who is doing us the favor of organizing the best research that's been done for 2,000 years, but now come to a point where you ask, what about the New Testament? All these stories. What do we need to know
0:24.0	about what Jesus said, what John the baptizer said, what James said when he took over control of
0:29.4	the church, what Mary taught her son, and Mary's friend Elizabeth, what she taught her son.
0:36.3	Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
0:37.9	Mark is the oldest at around 70 AD when the temple was destroyed.
0:43.2	Matthew and Luke are important here.
0:45.8	What are, how did the reasoning come for the Q, what you call the Q, the source of Jesus'
0:52.3	teaching, Professor.
0:54.4	How do you reason it?
0:56.7	This was discovered, not in a cave.
0:59.5	It's not like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
1:01.3	It's in your own Bible.
1:03.3	And it's very simple.
1:05.5	Matthew uses Mark as his narrative.
1:08.4	Luke uses Mark as his narrative.
1:10.3	You can get a gospel parallel and just
1:12.2	see story after story. They rewrite them, but it's the same story. So healing the paralyzed
1:17.8	man and so forth. In Mark 2, that's told by Matthew and Luke. But Matthew and Luke have material
1:25.4	in common that's not from Mark.
1:34.3	So in the 1830s, 40s, 50s, German scholars extracted that.
1:36.2	Nobody had ever thought of doing this.
1:37.8	It's another source.
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