Excavating Q : the history and setting of the sayings gospel / John S. Kloppenborg Verbin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kloppenborg, John S., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism).

Physical Description:

xii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2000.

Summary:

In this tour de force, the author offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of Q, Part I (chapters 1-5) deals with the methods for studying Q, their presuppositions, and a survey of current research. Part II (chapters 6-9) addresses more theological and theoretical issues relevant to the Synoptic Problem, Q as a document, its redaction, and its social setting.

Scholarship on Q has occupied a central position in the renewed quest of the historical Jesus and in attempts to describe the social practices of the Jesus movement. Perhaps owing to an explosion of social, historical, and archaeological studies on first-century Galilee (the probable provenance of the Sayings Gospel), Q has become the focal point of efforts to coordinate early Christian discourse about the kingdom, poverty, debt, violence, the Son of Man, judgment, the temple, etc., with a variety of social, economic, and political features of Jewish Palestine. Q provides a space where social history can meet and interact with documents of the Jesus movement. The re-conceptualizing of the function of early Christian language which this meeting has occasioned has ramifications not only for our thinking about the Jesus movement in the 50s or 60s of the first century, but has aided in a re-imaging of the quest of the historical Jesus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

080062601X

OCLC:

42296107