Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Tracing documents is more scientific than guesswork, but much less certain
than some of the physical sciences.  There are serious scholarly debates
about whether Mark or Matthew came first; for a while the Mark side
seemed to be established, but then John Robinson and others revived the
Matthew side. On the number of sources, note that most (not all) scholars
believe that Matthew and Luke incorporate material from both Mark and a
source they call Q, which some believe was similar to the Gnostic Gospel
of Thomas. Even this is a simplification of the state of the debate, but
it gives some idea of its complexity.
John Leland

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