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In February 2026 at BSA, Mark Goodacre and John Kloppenberg presented opposing lectures about whether or not Q existed. A member of BSA offered a summary of their positions and Goodacre said the summary was better than he could have done. The summary is pasted below. Other members thought the summary was prepared with an […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s 1000-word summary of John S. Kloppenborg’s paper, “On Dispensing with Q? Goodacre on the Relation of Luke to Matthew”. See the PDF copy of the paper in his directory in Dropbox that is embedded below. Also see the PDF file in his directory in Dropbox of his 178-page book Q, the Earliest […]
Continue ReadingOn Dispensing with Q?: Goodacre on the Relation of Luke to Matthew by JOHN S. KLOPPENBORG. See PDF in his directory in Dropbox.
Continue ReadingIn the Patreon Zoom Meeting on 11/30/2024, James Tabor pointed out numerous synoptic scriptures where Matthew’s rendition of Mark is summarized, expanded, or simplified when compared to Luke and Luke is often verbatim of Mark. That is, Luke uses Mark with minimal edits but Matthew rewrites his sources. Two examples are in the following two […]
Continue ReadingMy Comment in a BSA post titled Team Q Vs. Team Farrer was: In my opinion, to make the case Luke used Matthew and there was no single Q MS, Matthew would have had to had Mark and Matthew as he must have liked Mark’s order but not Matthew’s. So, he wove Matthew into Mark […]
Continue ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman’s Blog – Among the materials that we can say were found in Q are some of the most memorable passages of our Gospels, including the following (for the sake of simplicity, I’ll [Bart] give only the verse references in Luke; the list is not exhaustive): — The Preaching of John the Baptist […]
Continue ReadingAnd Then There Was Q, November 29, 2017 by Bart Ehrman From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com. 10/30/2024. Prompt – What are the pros and cons of the alleged Gospel of Q citing the scholars that support each position and the reasons why? The “Gospel of Q” (from “Quelle,” the German word for […]
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