In this groundbreaking study, Kloppenborg uses genre criticism and redaction criticism to examine the composition and development of the sayings source Q. He argues that Q is composed of three compositional layers, or strata, each of which reflects certain stages of development in the Q community. The first, and formative, layer reflects the influence of collections of ancient sapiential sayings and contains six wisdom speeches. The second layer reflects the influence of the prophetic literature of judgment and contains prophetic oracles and many Son-of-Man sayings. A third layer adds a temptation story, which moves the document from a chriae collection in the direction of a biography. James Robinson at Claremont University notes: “John Kloppenborg’s impressively wide-ranging survey of the various genres of collection sayings in antiquity and his placing of Q within that context have elevated this dimension of the study of Q to a new niveau of sophistication. With its publication, all previous studies of the genre of Q are rendered inadequate.” “This fine, well-written book is an outstanding contribution to synoptic studies….It is undoubtedly the best book on Q available in English.”—Arland D. Jacobsen, Journal of Biblical Literature John S. Kloppenborg teaches at the University of St. Michael’s College and the University of Toronto (both in Toronto). His previous books include Conflict and Invention: Literary, Rhetorical, and Social Studies on the Sayings Gospel Q (Trinity) and The Shape of Q: Signal Essays on the Sayings Gospel. For: New Testament scholars interested in the Synoptic Gospels; seminarians and graduate students.
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"An extremely important and influential study." -- Fred W. Burnett, reviewing for Religious Studies Review (Fred W. Burnett Religious Studies Review )
"An extremely important and influential study." -- Fred W. Burnett, reviewing for Religious Studies Review (, Religious Studies Review )
"An extremely important and influential study." -- Fred W. Burnett, reviewing for Religious Studies Review (, Religious Studies Review )
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John S. Kloppenborg is Professor of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is well-known for his ground-breaking work on the Sayings Gospel Q. His most recent publication is Excavating Q: The History and Setting of the Sayings Gospel. He is currently writing a commentary on James for the Hermeneia series.
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This book has, sadly, set the modern course for Q studies,
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Former member of the Jesus Seminar, John Kloppenborg was apparently the first to try setting up objective and critical criteria for isolating redactional material within Q. He has almost singlehandedly set the direction of Q studies for the last twenty years or so, at least in North America. He has also attempted to establish the earlier thesis of Robinson and Koester that Q originated as a collection of wisdom sayings
I think Kloppenborg's attempts at uncovering redactional strata has some things to commend it but it is far more shakey than he admits. It certainly does not provide the groundwork for books like Burton Mack's "Q: The Lost Gospel" or the far-reaching conclusions of the Jesus Seminar about the historical Jesus. Nor does Kloppenborg's claim that Q was at some point a merely collection of wisdom sayings commend itself to most scholars. Certainly there are sapiential elements within Q but there are other elements as well and one will be hard-pressed at labelling these "sapiential." The Beattitudes, for example, have a largely eschatological tone. Christopher Tuckett therefore rightly concludes that it is not very meaningful to categorize Q as a "sapiential" work. He also severely critiques the so-called "Cynic Jesus" hypothesis which is largely associated with Kloppenborg. I'd really recommend Tucket's "Q and the History of Early Christianity" by the way. He offers some very compelling critiques of Kloppenborg, as well as Theissen, Downing, Hoffman, Koester, Robinson, Goulder and many others. Of all the books out on Q Tuckett's is really the one to read. Kloppenborg's book is good if you want to keep up with the history of Q studies, especially in North America for the last thirty years or so. But if you're looking for an amazing and more up-to-date work of scholarship, read Tuckett.
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syntactical evidence, rabbinic chain, hidden kingdom, chriae collections, sapiential idiom, catchword composition, sapiential admonitions, sapiential speeches, redactional stratum, discipleship sayings, authorial fiction, originally independent saying, double saying, mission speech, sapiential instructions, translation hypothesis, wisdom sentences, motive clauses, instruction genre, named sage, temptation story, temptation account, late redaction, translation variants, narrative prologue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Son of Man, The Announcement of Judgment, Diogenes Laertius, Sayings of Jesus, The Document, Sapiental Speeches, Saplental Speeches, Josef Schmid, Sign of Jonah, Rudolf Pesch, New York, Aramaic Approach, Coming One, Near Eastern, Four Gospels, Wisdom Literature, Scholars Press, Dicta Catonis, Vincent Taylor, Late Egyptian Wisdom, Fortress Press, Wisdom Christology, Rhetores Graeci, Counsels of Wisdom, Paul Siebeck Browse Sample Pages:
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Son of Man, The Announcement of Judgment, Diogenes Laertius, Sayings of Jesus, The Document, Sapiental Speeches, Saplental Speeches, Josef Schmid, Sign of Jonah, Rudolf Pesch, New York, Aramaic Approach, Coming One, Near Eastern, Four Gospels, Wisdom Literature, Scholars Press, Dicta Catonis, Vincent Taylor, Late Egyptian Wisdom, Fortress Press, Wisdom Christology, Rhetores Graeci, Counsels of Wisdom, Paul Siebeck Browse Sample Pages:
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