31. What does Q stand for?
In the text Frediksen mentions the source Q, a lost document. This document contained some of "Jesus' Sayings", which were gathered together and written down in Greek. The letter Q was derived from the German word Quelle meaning "source".
what is Q's importance?
ReplyDeleteQ is important because, although its existence is hypothesized, it is believed to the source document that the author of Mark used when writing the gospel. Additonally the writers of the other gospels, Matthew and Luke also used Q as a source document in conjunction with the gospel of Mark to write their books.
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