Did John know Mark?

[StephenGoranson]

Did John know Mark?

Morton Smith, for what it's worth, in his unpublished 1960 text, claimed that "Secret Mark" was "shaped by deliberate imitation of canonical Mk."
[[hm., by whom? and not Secret Mark first, then censored]]
"but based in part on an earlier Aramaic gospel of which different Greek translations had been used independently by canonical Mk. and Jn."

JTS archive, box 10, folder 1.

[JarekS]

In Boismard's multiple-source hypothesis, Mark and John share a common source.

[RandyHelzerman]

In Boismard's multiple-source hypothesis,

His diagram perfectly illustrates the fundamental theorem of NT studies: any problem in NT studies can be solved by postulating another lost gospel.

IMHO, the synoptic problem can be solved by just the gospels we know about: Mk --> Ev --> Lk --> Mt plus the inevitable harmonization which is going happen upon recopying manuscripts.

[JarekS]

None of the 2SH or 2GH hypotheses reduced to canonical texts works correctly. Klinghardt doesn't work properly either. Of course, multisource makes no sense, but it works. That is why I claim that the gospels were written at one table at the same time

[StephenGoranson]

CORRECTION
The "summary of my report" to SBL
is from JTS box 13 folder 10.
The later unpublished "Evidence and Arguments" text
is from JTS box 10 folder1.