How do you explain the fact that sometimes it is Matthew and sometimes it is Luke who preserves the more original form of Q sayings? Q: The Gospel of Thomas proves the existence of Q, doesn it?
Q: Doesn’t dispensing with Q mean dispensing also with all other sources? Not necessarily. Michael Goulder is famous for coupling his elimination of Q with the attempted elimination of any other sources behind Matthew and Luke. However, my research suggests that this was unwise, and that we will make the best sense of Luke on the assumption that he has creatively interacted not only with Matthew and Mark but also with oral traditions (Goulder and the Gospels, Part Two, pp. 132-291). Q: Doesn’t dispensing with Q mean dispensing also with Markan Priority? No. The Griesbach Hypothesis, the most popular alternative to the Two Source Theory in North America, dispenses with both Q and Markan Priority. The Griesbachians are right in perceiving that something is wrong with the standard solution to the synoptic problem, but it is unlikely, in the long run, that they will convince people that Matthew was the first Gospel. In order to go ‘beyond the Q impasse’, one needs to walk hand-in-hand with
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