A Return to Origins (Again)
The early Christian martyrs were not reading the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas or the hypothetical sayings source that scholars refer to as "Q." They were reading Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
By
N. T. Wright
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Endnotes
Some, but certainly not all, of this composite and simplified view is held by my friends and colleagues Marcus J. Borg and J. Dominic Crossan. But I am not here trying to describe their positions, which deserve, and to which I am giving, more detailed attention elsewhere. The phenomenon of which I speak is what I meet at the more popular level.
See the interesting work of Richard A. Horsley and Neil Asher Silberman, The Message and the Kingdom (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1997).