Gospels as non-canonic writings
Mythicists contend that Luke is a rewriting of Matthew and Matthew a rewriting of Mark, Mark a rewriting of Paul. Historicists and apologists have a hard time with that notion because they want the new material to have different sources rather than the authors making it up. I was trying to find an approach to make pure invention more palatable to historicists and I came up with this. The Mark that we have is already a rewriting of Mark since it has two interpolations at the end (shorter ending and longer ending). Are those endings earlier than Matthew and Luke or later? Why are the Q proponents not assigning them a letter as sources in the synoptic problem? My point is : if we can make someone agree that material was added to Mark out of nowhere, then it's harder for them to claim the added material in Matthew and Luke must have had an independent source. If there were people adding stuff to Mark then you cannot deny that stuff was added in Matthew and Luke. Am I being too simp