Clip (<5 mins)
New Testament
Unknown
How Q Got Its Name
Theologian
Mark Goodacre
Duration
1.23
Uploaded to YouTube
21 September 2015
Added to Database
30 October 2025
YouTube description
No other letter is a sexy as Q, so it is a fitting title for the provocative hypothetical source text of the Gospels. Leading Q skeptic Mark Goodacre (Duke University) tells two divergent versions of how Q got its name. It's a controversial document even when it comes to being named.
For the case against Q, watch Mark Goodacre’s full lecture “Did Q Exist? Does it Matter?” in the new BAS DVD Scholars Speak: Gospel Questions. Shop here: http://store.bib-arch.org/GOSPEL-QUESTIONS/productinfo/9H576/