EY writes: : 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 mat : erial. There was probably a Q, a compilation of Jesus' sayings that were used : by the people who wrote the Gospels, whoever they were... Maybe there is more than one Q[uelle]. Maybe I've missed something, but why has there, as far as I know, been no mention of the Gnostic Gospels in this thread? Maybe the present-day Christian Gospels are the corruption of some G[nostic] text[s]. Which raises the question of whether Q = G. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html