Whose sayings are collected in the hypothetical Q document or Q source?
Q source Farrer hypothesis. Their arguments include: Other scholars have brought other arguments against Q: Some of the more notable portions of the New Testament are believed to have been first recorded in Q: Bibliographies Studies Q source The Q source (also Q document, Q Gospel, or Q from , meaning "source") is a hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus' sayings ("logia"). Q is part of the common material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark. According to this hypothesis, this material was drawn from the early Church's Oral Tradition. Along with Marcan priority,
Common Sayings Source the two later documents known as "Q" and The Gospel of Thomas. The common material believed to be the Common Sayings Source can be found in the “special” material of the Synoptic Gospels. These statistics provide evidence that the "Q" source and Gospel of Thomas material play a minor role in the Synoptic Gospels. The Common Sayings source does not provide an alternative solution to the Synoptic Problem but provides a deeper understanding of the two-document theory. As a hypothetical document, the "Q" source is still only a hypothesis. Prior to the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas in 1945