Talk:The Q Document

Motivation
This Wikibook was motivated by two different things. For one, I started trying to create an article on the Q document at English Wikipedia, but found that teaching about Q isn't particularly suited to the format of an encyclopedia article. Rather, there's a distinct series of steps a student has to go through in order to understand Q--  first learning about the synoptic gospels, then the synoptic problem, then markan priority, then the double tradition, then Q, then the purported contents of Q, and then the hypothetical Q community, etc, and finally, alternatives to Q.  No one article really could cover it, but at the same time, just telling a student "read this article, this article, then this article" didn't seem appropriate either, since each article wouldn't have been written with an eye to being part of a unified whole designed to teach about Q.

A second motivation was the desire to find a home for a free-licensed copy of those portions of Luke believed to be copied from Q. Numerous such collections exist in print, and students should be able to have access to such a text in order to get a "general feel" for what scholars believe Q looked like. Such a text wouldn't fit in a Wikipedia, nor at Wikisource-- instead such a text seemed to belong in a Wikibook. --Alecmconroy (talk) 09:59, 13 December 2007 (UTC)