Early Bible

A text that may be the oldest copy of a gospel known to exist — a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that was written during the first century, before the year 90 — is set to be published. Some scholars believe Mark’s to be the first gospel.  The fragment  was recovered with other documents used to make a mask of an Egyptian mummy.  Many scholars believe that the gospels of Luke, Matthew, and probably Mark were compiled from a common older source, a collections of Jesus sayings, called the ‘Q source or Q document. ‘ That source, as yet undiscovered, may have been an oral tradition that originated closer to the time of Jesus, or a document written in Greek, or both.