HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The Latin writings of the Roman Historians
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Egyptian scrolls found near the Dead Sea
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Gospels written in Greek by his followers
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Scribes who recorded his deeds in Hebrew
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Detailed explanation-1: -Given that the Pauline epistles are generally dated 50–60 CE, they are the earliest surviving Christian texts that include information about Jesus.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mark is generally agreed to be the first gospel; it uses a variety of sources, including conflict stories (Mark 2:1–3:6), apocalyptic discourse (4:1–35), and collections of sayings, although not the sayings gospel known as the Gospel of Thomas and probably not the Q source used by Matthew and Luke.
Detailed explanation-3: -To reach the largest audience in the region where Christianity was born, Greek was the obvious language to use.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of these, according to a well authenticated tradition, was an oral source. Papias, an early church father writing about 140 A.D., tells us that Mark obtained much of the material for his gospel from stories related to him by Peter, one of Jesus’ disciples.
Detailed explanation-5: -The answer appears to be that Matthew and Luke each had two sources in common: the Gospel of Mark and another gospel, now lost, a collection of sayings known only as Q. Q stands for “Quelle, ‘’ the German word for source.