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No physical or ancient manuscripts of Q have ever been discovered. 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The 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi library (including the Gospel of Thomas) proved that standalone sayings collections did circulate in early Christianity. 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No physical or ancient manuscripts of Q have ever been discovered. 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 "transcript_read": "READ IN FULL 2026-11-06, against #1741, #1735 and the cards' own titles and snippets",
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 "per_note": "Retained: the institutions and the name of one critic (Farrer). Lost: every proponent's name and every reconstruction's identifier; the evidentiary class, recorded in the findings.",
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  "since": "2026-11-06",
  "reason": "no atom set yet for Q as a target; the study of Q will hold what an atom set is built from",
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 "reading": "The innocent reading first. At the entity's name the Overview gives the field's account: Q as a hypothesis, the double tradition it is proposed to explain, the two-source model, the evidence its proponents cite, and Farrer as the alternative. It calls Q hypothetical in its first sentence. Read against the archive's classes of ancestry (#1735 §I: extant antecedent, attested tradition, reconstructed antecedent), the composition's 'Supporting Evidence' consists of relations among extant texts and an extant parallel genre, and the one fact about Q itself, that no manuscript exists, is filed among the alternatives.",
 "analysis": "A public entity of the field composed at its press grain with the hypothesis named; the evidentiary class of the entity is the boundary that does not reach the composition. No author named in the body; Farrer named as an alternative.",
 "d": "'Q SOURCE', SIGNED OUT, 2026-11-06: Q 'is a hypothetical written collection of Jesus's sayings'; key concepts (the synoptic problem and its 235 verses, the two-source hypothesis, a sayings gospel 'similar in genre to the Gospel of Thomas'); evidence (wording 'implying they relied on a common written tradition rather than copying one another'; Thomas 'proved that standalone sayings collections did circulate'); alternative theories (Farrer; 'No physical or ancient manuscripts of Q have ever been discovered.'). Nine cards: Wikipedia, PBS, Catholic Answers, Gospels.net, Bart Ehrman's videos, a Facebook group.",
 "d_full": "'Q SOURCE', SIGNED OUT, 2026-11-06: Q 'is a hypothetical written collection of Jesus's sayings'; key concepts (the synoptic problem and its 235 verses, the two-source hypothesis, a sayings gospel 'similar in genre to the Gospel of Thomas'); evidence (wording 'implying they relied on a common written tradition rather than copying one another'; Thomas 'proved that standalone sayings collections did circulate'); alternative theories (Farrer; 'No physical or ancient manuscripts of Q have ever been discovered.'). Nine cards: Wikipedia, PBS, Catholic Answers, Gospels.net, Bart Ehrman's videos, a Facebook group.",
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 "cite": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/q-source-aio-20261106/",
 "citable_unit": "address — the exact issued string on one surface, per the Surface Rule (MANUS, 2026-08-15)",
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 "dates": [
  "2026-11-06"
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 "findings": [
  "THE ONE FACT ABOUT Q FILED AS AN ALTERNATIVE. 'No physical or ancient manuscripts of Q have ever been discovered.' The sentence closes the 'Alternative Theories' item, after Farrer. It states the evidentiary condition of the hypothesis, and the composition places it as a feature of the minority position.",
  "EVIDENCE FROM EXTANT TEXTS, CREDITED TO AN UNATTESTED ONE. The 'Supporting Evidence' is the wording shared by Matthew and Luke ('implying they relied on a common written tradition rather than copying one another') and an extant genre ('The 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi library (including the Gospel of Thomas) proved that standalone sayings collections did circulate in early Christianity.'). The first is a relation between two extant gospels, explained by Q only once direct dependence is excluded, and the composition gives the exclusion as an implication. The second shows that sayings collections existed; it is evidence for the genre, and Thomas is extant.",
  "THE ARCHIVE'S DISTINCTION, ABSENT. The archive's position holds the classes apart and reports 'Quelle A and Q' as reconstructed antecedents (#1741 §11.7). The composition names the hypothesis and argues it with extant material, so the class of the antecedent never enters the account of its evidence.",
  "SMALLEST REPAIR. 'Q is a reconstructed source: no manuscript or ancient citation of it exists, and its contents are inferred from material shared by Matthew and Luke. The alternative, that Luke used Matthew (Farrer), explains the same material from extant texts.' COUNTERTEST: 'is the q source real' and 'q source evidence' (seated the same day)."
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 "related_deposits": [
  1741,
  1735,
  851,
  1404
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 "originator": {
  "name": "New Testament scholarship on the hypothetical source Q",
  "relation": "external",
  "entity_type": "topic",
  "spxi_treatment": "partial",
  "basis": "Not the archive's: the two-source hypothesis and its critics. The archive's position bears on it through #1735 (the classes of ancestry), #1741 (§6.5, §11.7) and The Feist Source (#851, #1404). Recorded 2026-11-06."
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 "notes": {
  "prompts": "The query is the operator's, among those the session listed at 10:31; the run's hour is not in the paste, the date is the paste's receipt (2026-11-06 10:50 EST).",
  "operator": "with the five pastes (2026-11-06 10:50 EST), no comment beyond the pastes.",
  "study": "seated for the study of Q opened by the operator on 2026-11-06 (10:31 EST, 'we're coming for Q next'), companion of Secondary Source (#1741); design to follow"
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 "scope_basis": "originator external; no composition cites an archive-controlled or authored source",
 "record_url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/q-source-aio-20261106/"
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