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- From: biow@cs.umd.edu (Christopher Biow)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.messianic
- Subject: Matthew vs. Mark vs. Luke vs. Q
- Message-ID: <63024@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 01:56:11 GMT
- Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu
- Followup-To: alt.messianic
- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- We've strayed far off the original topic, which
- was none too relevant to sci.skeptic, anyway. Thus,
- followups are redirected--we don't want to drown
- out _JOHN_-_-_-_WINSTON____, after _all_.
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- Part of the argument that got us into posting
- long passages of Greek was over whether the synoptic
- gospels were copied from each other, or from a common
- (Q) source. These two are not necessarily exclusive.
- Here is what the intro's to the New American Bible
- (Roman Cath. translation) have to say:
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- Mark--shortest gospel, with additional chapters
- appended by a different writer
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- Matthew--has access to Mark; copies some. Adds
- 240 new verses, deduced to have come
- from the "Q" source.
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- Luke--regards himself as collector of both prev.
- writings and eyewitness accounts. Most scholars think
- that he used Mark as principal source, including
- an independent passion narrative; others believe
- Mark was only a supplementary source.
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