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Thanks, Peter, For copying over here my posts at Christian Forums that presented my thesis plus some additional justification for holding that seven written eyewitness records are sources underlying the four gospels. That’s out on a limb farther than Richard Bauckham, but it’s not so far out. Contin...

Has anyone noticed that Dennis MacDonald is working on Mark’s Redaction of the Lost Gospel. (p. 69 in http://books.google.com/books?id=SbpVqpT6GikC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true Two Shipwrecked Gospels ), of which over 100 pages is previewed in this link at Google. As he uses “L...

The most meaningful aspect to MacDonald’s thesis is that deriving his Q+/Papias Hypothesis for the initial Logoi leaves the subsequent Gospel of Mark and all further gospels springing up from only one independent source. Thus allowing a pre-70 date for Logoi is not helpful for Christian apologetics....

Resuming from my Post #18 over on FRDB: This QLM Hypothesis extends the Two-Source Hypothesis so far that it almost turns into the Griesbach Hypothesis (inside out, but making more sense). Instead of a pair of complete gospels being abridged, the underlying text they shared was abridged. If Mark had...