Gospel Interpretation and the Q-Hypothesis

by Mogens Müller (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor), Heike Omerzu (Editor), Michael Labahn (Editor)

Overview

The Q-Hypothesis has functioned as a mainstay of study of the synoptic gospels for many years. Increasingly it comes under fire. In this volume leading proponents of Q, as well as of the case against Q, offer the latest arguments based on the latest research into this literary conundrum.

The contributors to the volume include John Kloppenborg, Christopher Tuckett, Clare Rothschild, Mark Goodacre, and Francis Watson. The Q-Hypothesis is examined in depth and the discussion moves back and forth over Q's strengths and weaknesses. As such the volume sheds light on how the gospels were composed, and how we can view them in their final literary forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567692481
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/31/2019
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Mogens Müller is Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Heike Omerzu is Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: What is at Stake by Advocating or Disputing the Two Source Theory? (Heike Omerzu, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)


I History and Theory
1. Conceptual Stakes in the Synoptic Problem - John S. Kloppenborg,University of Toronto, Canada
2. Sad Sources; Observations from the History of Theology on the Origins and Contours of the Synaptic Problem - Stefan Alkier, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
3. Were the Gospel Authors Really 'Simple Christians Without Literacy Gift (Albert Schweitzer)? Arguments for the Quest for Sources behind the Gospels - Mogens Muller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
4. Q and the Logia: On the Discovery of and Marginalizing of P. Oxy.1 - Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK
5. Francis Watson, Q and "L/M" - Christopher M. Tuckett, University of Oxford, UK
6. Seven Theses on the Synoptic Problem, in Disagreement with Christopher Tuckett - Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK


II Textual Studies
7. Mark With and Against Q: The Earliest Gospel Narrative as a Counter Model - Eve Marie Becker, Aarhus University, Denmark
8. Refusing to Acknowledge the Immerser (Q 7.31-35) - Clare K. Rothschild
9. Coherence and Distinctness – Exploring the Social Matrix of the Double Tradition - Hildegard Scherer, University of Bonn, Germany.
10. Taking Our Leave of Mark - Q Overlaps: Major Agreements and the Farrer Theory - Mark Goodacre
Duke's University, USA
11. The Gospel of Luke as Narratological Improvement of Synoptic Pretexts: The Narrative Introduction to the Jesus Story (Mark 1.1- parr) - Werner Kahl, Academy of Mission at the University of Hamburg
12. Does Dating Luke- Acts into the Second Century Affect the Q Hypothesis? - Shelley Matthews, Furman University, USA
13. Marcion's Gospel and the Synoptic Problem in Recent Scholarship - Dieter T. Roth, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany

Editorial Reviews

"The volume is highly recommended to anyone involved with synoptic studies, offering a good range of methodological positions and arguments advanced in this important area by New Testament specialists today." - Biblical Theology Bulletin

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