Framing Social Criticism in the Jesus Movement: The Ideological Project in the Sayings Gospel Q
In: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe v.374
Although it has become increasingly popular to understand the earliest rural Jesus movement as emerging from a peasant milieu, proponents of this model have not yet taken the time to explore the ramifications for a highly stylized written document being the earliest evidence for this movement. On the contrary, the Sayings Gospel Q, a sophisticated literary text having affinities with other ancient literature and even documentary papyri, does not seem to be a product of a peasant milieu. Even so, Q does not appear to be the product of elites either, for the text is rife with tropes of social an