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THE GOSPELS, THE "TWO-SOURCE THEORY," HOLDS THAT MARK'S ACCOUNT WAS WRITTEN FIRST SOMETIME AFTER 70 AD/CE, THUS ABOUT 4 DECADES AFTER Y's murderous death?
Mark had at his disposal a collection of oral and perhaps even a handful of written and edited traditions & translations that could have been passed on & handed around by Y's earliest followers for years? By adding chrono-logical narratives to this jumble of edited translated traditions, Mark created a wholly new literary genre called 'gospel', or 'euangelion' in Greek for "GOOD NEWS!" Yet Mark's gospel is a rather short & somewhat ùnsatisfying one for many Christians?!
There is no infancy record or narrative yet: the Jews & also Yesh arrive simply one day on the banks of the Yardén, Jordan River, to be baptized by Yocha-nan the Baptist; there are also no resurrection appearances; Yesh is crucified & his body placed in a tomb: a few days later this tomb is empty! Even these earliest Christians were left wanting, yearning & longing by Mark's brusque account of Y's life & ministry, & so it was left to Mark's successors, Matthew & Lucky Luke, to improve upon these original texts?!
About two decades after Mark, or between 90 & 100 CE/AD, authors of Matthew & Luke, working independently of each other & with Mark's manuscript as a template, updated the first gospel stories by adding their own unique traditions, including two different and conflicting infancy narratives as well as series of more or less elaborate resurrection stories to satisfy their Christian Readers here, there & now already almost 'everywhere'!
Matthew & Luke also relied on what must have been an early & fairly well distributed collection of Yesh's sayings that scholars have termed Q (QUELLE, or 'source'
! Although we no longer have any physical copies of this document, we can infer its contents by compiling those verses that Matthew & Luke share in common but that do not appear in Mark?
Together, these three gospels - Mark, Matthew, and Luke - became known as the SYNOPTICS (Greek for 'viewed together' because they more or less present a common narrative & chronology about the life & ministry of Yesh, one that is greatly at odds with the fourth gospel, Yochanan, which was likely written soon after the close of the first century, between 100 & 120 CE/AD?!
Then, these were the canonized gospels, but not the only ones: we now do have also access to quite a entire library of noncanonical scriptures written mostly in the second and third centuries that provides a vastly different perspective on the life and death of Yehoshua of Natsereth, including Thomas, Philip, Secret Book of John, Mary Magdalene and a host of other socalled GNOSTIC writings discovered @ Upper~Egypt, near Nag Hammadi, in 1945!
Though they were left out of what would ultimately become the New Testament (NOT or Not Old Testament), these books are significant in that they demonstrate the dramatic dìvergences of opinions that already existed over who Yesh wàs ànd whàt he meant, even among those who claimed to walk with him or shared his bread, water & wine and ate and drank with him, who heard his words themselves and had prayed, walked & talked with him ...
Mark had at his disposal a collection of oral and perhaps even a handful of written and edited traditions & translations that could have been passed on & handed around by Y's earliest followers for years? By adding chrono-logical narratives to this jumble of edited translated traditions, Mark created a wholly new literary genre called 'gospel', or 'euangelion' in Greek for "GOOD NEWS!" Yet Mark's gospel is a rather short & somewhat ùnsatisfying one for many Christians?!
There is no infancy record or narrative yet: the Jews & also Yesh arrive simply one day on the banks of the Yardén, Jordan River, to be baptized by Yocha-nan the Baptist; there are also no resurrection appearances; Yesh is crucified & his body placed in a tomb: a few days later this tomb is empty! Even these earliest Christians were left wanting, yearning & longing by Mark's brusque account of Y's life & ministry, & so it was left to Mark's successors, Matthew & Lucky Luke, to improve upon these original texts?!
About two decades after Mark, or between 90 & 100 CE/AD, authors of Matthew & Luke, working independently of each other & with Mark's manuscript as a template, updated the first gospel stories by adding their own unique traditions, including two different and conflicting infancy narratives as well as series of more or less elaborate resurrection stories to satisfy their Christian Readers here, there & now already almost 'everywhere'!
Matthew & Luke also relied on what must have been an early & fairly well distributed collection of Yesh's sayings that scholars have termed Q (QUELLE, or 'source'
! Although we no longer have any physical copies of this document, we can infer its contents by compiling those verses that Matthew & Luke share in common but that do not appear in Mark? Together, these three gospels - Mark, Matthew, and Luke - became known as the SYNOPTICS (Greek for 'viewed together'
because they more or less present a common narrative & chronology about the life & ministry of Yesh, one that is greatly at odds with the fourth gospel, Yochanan, which was likely written soon after the close of the first century, between 100 & 120 CE/AD?! Then, these were the canonized gospels, but not the only ones: we now do have also access to quite a entire library of noncanonical scriptures written mostly in the second and third centuries that provides a vastly different perspective on the life and death of Yehoshua of Natsereth, including Thomas, Philip, Secret Book of John, Mary Magdalene and a host of other socalled GNOSTIC writings discovered @ Upper~Egypt, near Nag Hammadi, in 1945!
Though they were left out of what would ultimately become the New Testament (NOT or Not Old Testament), these books are significant in that they demonstrate the dramatic dìvergences of opinions that already existed over who Yesh wàs ànd whàt he meant, even among those who claimed to walk with him or shared his bread, water & wine and ate and drank with him, who heard his words themselves and had prayed, walked & talked with him ...
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