The Quest for the Community of Q: Mapping Q Within the Social, Scribal, and Textual Landscape(s) of Second Temple Judaism
Was there a Q community? There are many who think that any quest for a Q community is a fool's errand. In this paper, I revisit this vexing question by focusing on several distinctive textual coordinates with which we can map Q's author within the social, textual, and theological lands...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2018, Volume: 111, Issue: 1, Pages: 90-114 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Q
/ Early Judaism
/ Galilee
/ Qumran Community
/ Essenes
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament HD Early Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa |
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| Summary: | Was there a Q community? There are many who think that any quest for a Q community is a fool's errand. In this paper, I revisit this vexing question by focusing on several distinctive textual coordinates with which we can map Q's author within the social, textual, and theological landscape(s) of Second Temple Judaism. Since the author of Q was capable of crafting innovative scriptural allusions and adapting inherited Jesus traditions, I suggest that Q is not an isolated Galilean phenomenon but a textual production that combines Galilean Jesus traditions in conversation with contemporary Jewish apocalyptic traditions and can be located alongside the wider Essenic networks that pre-dated and co-existed with the Palestinian Jewish Jesus movement. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816017000402 |