[lit-ideas] Re: Reframing Christianity [was hijacking]

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.

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