(October 27, 2020 at 8:29 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The source of the Q Hypothesis is, essentially, a venn diagram of when and how the synoptic gospels agree and disagree.
One of two things must be true. Some order of the synoptic gospels resolves the synoptic problem, the double tradition problem, and the triple tradition problem..... or some order -plus- the addition of an (or many) unknown sources account for the synoptic problem, the double tradition problem, and the triple tradition problem.
IDK if it fits to call it apocryphal, though. It's status as apocrypha, in this context, is an accident of history and not a comment on it's state as fundamental to christian belief.
I don't doubt the existence of Q, only the claim that Mark used Q as a source.
