An idea for a Halloween costume: Dressing up in a tunic, carrying around six or seven wax tablets, a worn out copy of The Gospel of Mark, a brand new copy of The Gospel of Matthew, accompanied by a scribe with the Septuagint, and a desk (the last detail courtesy of Dr. Goulder, history buff… — read more

Alan Kirk appeared recently on History Valley–another real Q scholar on Youtube!–and at minute 26 Jacob asks about the Farrer theory. At first I thought it wasn’t fair when Kirk said Farrer theorists can’t agree on why Luke follows Mark for narrative material and Matthew for sayings material, rearranging it (a generalization, of course). “Is… — read more

Q has explanatory power. In Q, the Earliest Gospel, after bringing attention to inadequacies in the Griesbach and Farrer hypotheses, Kloppy writes of the 2 document hypothesis: “It works. It produces an account of the Gospels that makes sense. To assume that Matthew and Luke used a second document to supplement what they had from… — read more