Contents
Acknowledgements
Short Titles
Introduction
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT 1
Entering the Debate
Ethics of Interpretation
Practices of Critical Reflexivity
Practices of Textual Re-Reading
Practices of Public Debate
Interpreting the Sayings Source Q
Format of This Study
Part I
The Children of Sophia: De-Centering Q's Jesus
Chapter One
ESCHATOLOGY AND IDENTITY: Q'S JESUS AND CHRISTIAN DIVERSITY
Christian Origins and Christian Identity in a Diverse World
Equating Jesus' Identity with Christian Identity
Fixing Jesus' Identity with Scholarly Taxonomy
Theological Taxonomies and Christian Identity
Conclusion
Chapter Two
ESCHATOLOGY AND COMMUNITY: TRADITIONS OF SOLIDARITY IN Q 7:18-35
Wisdom is Vindicated by All Her Children: Q 7:31-35
Should We Expect Another?: Q 7:18-23
The Least in the Basileia are Greater: Q 7:24-28
Rethinking "This Generation"
Chapter Three
ESCHATOLOGY AND THEOLOGY: THE JUDGMENTAL JESUS AND JOHN'S OPENING SPEECH IN Q 3:7-9, 16-17
John at the Beginning of Q
The Judgment and the Interpretation of Q 3:7-9, 16-17
A Judgmental Jesus and the Redaction of Q
John's Doctrine of the Future
Invoking Q's Symbolic World: Q 3:7-9, 16-17
Bear Fruit Worthy of Repentance: Q 3:7-9
Bearing Good Fruit Throughout Q
Redacting the Judgment
Judging the Children of Abraham
Introducing Jesus as the Coming One: Q 3:16-17
Conclusion
Part II
Jesus among the Children of Sophia: Re-Focusing Q's Jesus
Chapter Four
ESCHATOLOGY AND CHRISTOLOGY: THE PROBLEM OF THE UNIQUENESS OF JESUS
Apologetics and Christian Origins
Eschatology Renders Jesus and Q Incomparably Unique
Christology and the Uniqueness of Jesus
Dispensing with Apologetics?
Conclusion
Chapter Five
ESCHATOLOGY AND THE BASILEIA: THE UNIQUENESS OF JESUS IN Q 11:14-26
Establishing the Text
Q 11:20 and the Interpretation of Q 11:14-26
Claiming the Common Ground
Against the Disasters of Divisiveness: Q 11:15-18
The Sons of the Accusers and the Basileia of God: Q 11:19-20
1. The Redactional Solution to the Incompatibility
2. The Hermeneutical Solution to the Incompatibility
3. Dissolving the Incompatibility
Conclusions
Chapter Six
ESCHATOLOGY AND APOCALYPTIC: THE SON OF HUMANITY IN Q 11:16, 29-32
Establishing the Text
Q 11:30 and the Interpretation of Q 11:16, 29-32
Others Request a Sign
This Evil or Sorry Generation
Seeking a Verifiable Sign
There's Something about the "Son of Humanity"
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS