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The Gospel of Thomas consists mostly of sayings, and it explicitly claims to be a Gospel in its first sentence. So that's pretty good evidence that something like Q would have been thought of as a gospel around the time when Thomas was written (which is sometime between the mid 1st and mid 2nd century, we don't know). On the other hand, we don't know when ...

Abstract Q is an entirely theoretical document that nevertheless seems likely to have existed if Mark was the the first written Gospel. It's long been known that Matthew, Mark, and Luke share significant material and we know from internal evidence that Luke incorporated a variety of sources: Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of ...

The Synoptics are very similar to each other, and it's almost universally agreed that this similarity is such that there had to be a literary relationship between them. That is, in many places the authors had access to one of the other Gospels, or that the authors of two gospels had a common written source. There are two basic patterns which any solution ...

To me, in order for any book to be considered a Gospel the first thing it would have to have is the teaching of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ since that's what the word means in the underlying NT Greek in the canonical Gospels. That is the good news after all; that Christ died, was buried, and rose again! εὐαγγέλιον (euaggelion) ...