The partisanship comes into view when the Synoptics are dismissed as 'corruptions' of that ur-text. Who said anything about "corruptions"? Merely reframing of earlier source material. There was probably a Q, a compilation of Jesus' sayings that were used by the people who wrote the Gospels, whoever they were... ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html