What is Q? When was it composed? How does the material attributed to Q differ from that attributed to the author of Mark’s gospel? If we had only Q to work with and no other information about Jesus, what kind of picture of Jesus would we have? What do the documents of Q, the Gospel of Thomas, and the authentic letters of Paul have in common?
2007-07-16 13:39:08 · 8 answers · asked by Jenny A 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would like to see that myself! I have the Gospel of Thomas, and Paul's letters, but so far I have not run across the 'Q'...
'Quelle' ('source') in my searches. As far as I can ascertain, the Synoptics were developed from 'Q', and they have a great deal in common with the Gospel of Thomas; the quotes of Jesus are almost identical. I do, however, sense a certain digression in doctrine in (Luke, Paul, and Acts), with a direct conflict of interest to those three in (James, Jude, and The Gospel of Thomas). Note also the business relationship between Luke and Paul, and the discord between Paul and everyone else, (not including the two-faced Peter, who tended to avoid conflicts with Paul, and everyone else, by any means possible.)
Hypothetically lacking all but the 'Q' would present an ambiguous picture of Jesus, at best. Even as things stand now, we really have little to indicate what Jesus' personality was really like. And from the Gospel texts, He didn't seem to have much time to have a personality anyway. He was simply too busy running and hiding from the bounty hunters as a fugitive, and setting a 'proper' example for his underlings.
2007-07-16 14:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Q is a hypothetical unknown source of some of the material in the New Testament that textual critics have come up with. It's just like in the OT they have made up authors like P (priest) and E (Elohim) and J (Jehovah). The thing about all of their speculation is that it doesn't have any historical proof for it. These guys have spent hours and days and weeks and months and years going through the Bible and trying to attribute different verses to different authors.
One person got fed up with all of their nonsense and he took the papers of like 15 of these critics and put them all together and then challenged them to figure out who wrote which parts of it. Needless to say, they all failed miserably.
2007-07-16 20:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a letter in the alphabet.
2) It's the name of a character on Star Trek: Next Generation.
2007-07-16 20:42:04 · answer #3 · answered by independant_009 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You already asked that.
It's a letter of the alphabet, comes right after P and just before R.
Other than that, I've no idea what you're referring to.
Is this to do with Star Drek-I mean Trek?
2007-07-16 20:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a collection of jesus' teachings...i think its different because it combines all of the quotes...im not exactly sure, its been a while since i was in religion class
2007-07-16 20:44:09 · answer #5 · answered by advice?yeah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of Q except the star trek dude.
2007-07-16 20:45:29 · answer #6 · answered by Sean 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the Case for Christ. it expalins that Q is only something conceived in the minds of men. No factual basis for Q's existence.
2007-07-16 20:46:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sorry, "do unto others" does not apply to homework.
2007-07-16 20:43:10 · answer #8 · answered by hot.turkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋