Books by John S Kloppenborg
Leiden and Paderborn: Brill Schöningh, 2024
Everyday life in Graeco-Roman times has fascinated generations of scholars,
students and people i... more Everyday life in Graeco-Roman times has fascinated generations of scholars,
students and people interested in the New Testament alike. One of the most
unique sources to access ancient everyday affairs are documentary papyri
because they provide access to the ancient world both before and while it
was shaped into one in which Christianity began to predominate. These textual sources allow the modern reader to meet everyday people from the past through their own writings and in texts about their daily affairs, joys, and sorrows. Documentary papyri provide an abundance of information to contextualize the New Testament and its authors, and to better understand its stories and messages.
More Light from the Ancient East: Understanding the New Testament Through Papyri. Papyri and the New Testament 1. Padderborn: Brill Schöningh., 2023
Verheyden, Joseph, John S. Kloppenborg, Geert Roskam, and Stefan Schorn, eds. . BETL, vol. 327. Leuven: Peeters , 2022
The Gospels and Gospel Traditions: Festschrift for Joseph Verheyden. BETL, vol. 330. Leuven: Peeters, 2022
With this volume twenty-seven friends and colleagues of Joseph Verheyden, Professor of New Testam... more With this volume twenty-seven friends and colleagues of Joseph Verheyden, Professor of New Testament at KU Leuven, celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday and honour him for his outstanding achievements in the study of the New Testament and early Christian literature. The contributions, written by authors from many countries in Europe, Canada, the United States, and South Africa, discuss the origin of the earliest gospels, the Sayings Source Q, various solutions to the Synoptic Problem, and the textual transmission of the canonical gospels. Other essays examine pre-Markan traditions, the traces the canonical gospels have left in the Apostolic Fathers, and the reception of the gospels in non-canonical writings such as the Gospel of Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter, and the Acts of Thecla, and in patristic and gnostic literature. Several papers are detailed commentaries on specific passages in the New Testament gospels, or concentrate on such figures as Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Nathanael. The volume also includes Verheyden's full bibliography 1979-2022.
London: T&T Clark, 2022
James offers a concise and accessible introduction to a New Testament text, in this case aimed ... more James offers a concise and accessible introduction to a New Testament text, in this case aimed specifically at undergraduate-level students. John S. Kloppenborg introduces the reader to a series of critical issues bearing on the reading of James and provides a balanced presentation and assessment of the range of scholarly views, with guidance for further reading and research.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Approaching James
Chapter Two: Attestation, Authorship, and Date
Chapter Three: Genre and Structure
Chapter Four: The Fabric of James: The Jewish Bible and the Jesus Tradition
Chapter Five: Addressees and Purpose
Epilogue: The Legacy of James
Index of References
Index of Special Vocabulary
Index of Modern Authors
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020
Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or... more Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among the principal means of organizing social and economic life in the ancient Mediterranean. They offered opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and contexts in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects 140 inscriptions and papyri from Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, along with translations, notes, commentary, and analytic indices. The dossier of association-related documents substantially enhances our knowledge of the extent, activities, and importance of private associations in the ancient Mediterranean, since papyri, unavailable from most other locations in the Mediterranean, preserve a much wider range of data than epigraphical monuments. The dossier from Egypt includes not only honorific decrees, membership lists, bylaws, dedications, and funerary monuments, but monthly accounts of expenditures and income, correspondence between guild secretaries and local officials, price and tax declarations, records of legal actions concerning associations, loan documents, petitions to local authorities about associations, letters of resignation, and many other papyrological genres. These documents provide a highly variegated picture of the governance structures and practices of associations, membership sizes and profiles, and forms of interaction with the State.
Library of New Testament Studies, vol. 618. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
About Theological and Theoretical Issues in the Synoptic Problem
This volume addresses the S... more About Theological and Theoretical Issues in the Synoptic Problem
This volume addresses the Synoptic Problem and how it emerged in a historical context closely connected with challenges to the historical reliability of the gospels; questions the ability of scholarship arriving at a compelling reconstruction of the historical Jesus; the limits of the canon; and an examination of the relationship between the historical reliability of gospel material and ecclesial dogma that was presumed to flow from the gospels.
The contributors, all experts in the Synoptic Problem, probe various sites and issues in the 19th and 20th century to elaborate how the Synoptic Problem and scholarship on the synoptic gospels was seen to complement, undergird, or complicate theological views. By exploring topics ranging from the Q hypothesis to the Markan priority and the Two Document hypothesis, this volume supplies extensive theological context to the beginnings of synoptic scholarship from an entirely new perspective.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Theological Issues at Stake in Early 20th Century Research on the Synoptic Problem -- C. M. Tuckett, University of Oxford, UK
2. The Decline of the Gospel Harmony: Loss or Gain? -- Marijke de Lang, United Bible Societies
3. The Archaeology of the Q Hypothesis: The Case of H. J. Holtzmann -- Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK
4. Memory, Tradition, and Synoptic Sources: The Quest of Holtzmann and Wernle for a Pre-Dogma Jesus – Alan Kirk, James Madison University, USA
5. The Search for “Urevangelium” as a Question of the Authority of the Jesus Tradition -- Markus Tiwald, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
6. The Rise of the Markan Priority Hypothesis and Early Responses and Challenges to It – Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, UK
7. "No Weapon but That of Analysis”: Issues at Stake in the Rise and Reception of the Two-Document Hypothesis – Daniel Smith, Huron University, Canada
8. The Synoptic Problem, the Apocryphal Gospels, and the Quest of the Historical Jesus: Towards a Reformulation of the Synoptic Problem -- Jens Schröter, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
9. French Catholic Scholars on the Synoptic Problem in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- Benedict Viviano, Fribourg University, Switzerland
10. Camouflaging Q: The Catholic 2DH from Lagrange to Sickenberger and Beyond -- John Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Canada
Bibliography
Index
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300217049, 2019
A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean that reshapes ... more A groundbreaking investigation of early Christ groups in the ancient Mediterranean that reshapes the perception of Christian associations in the first three centuries
As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ-followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small face-to-face meetings and provided the principal context for cultic and social interactions for their members. Unlike most other groups, however, about which we have data on their rules of membership, financial management, and organizational hierarchy, we have very little information about Christ groups..
Drawing on data about associative practices throughout the ancient world, this innovative study offers new insight into the structure and mission of the early Christian groups. John S. Kloppenborg situates the Christian associations within the broader historical context of the ancient Mediterranean and reveals that they were likely smaller than previously believed, did not have a uniform system of governance, and that the attraction of Christian groups was based more on practice than theological belief.
“This exceptionally important book offers a clearer understanding of who the early Christ followers really were, where they came from, and how their way of life eventually evolved into the preferred ‘religion’ of the Roman Empire.”— Anders Runesson, author of The Origins of the Synagogue
Mohr Siebeck, 2018
F o r a u t h o r ' s u s e o n l y / N u r f ü r d e n A u t o r b e s t i m m t .
The present volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Leuven C... more The present volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Leuven Centre for the Study of the Gospels which was dedicated to various aspects of Luke’s writings that all have to do with his knowledge of the world he is describing in his work. The symposium studied a number of topics relating to the social world of earliest Christianity. Contributors had been asked to address, if relevant, (1) the history of research for the theme that had been assigned to them, (2) recent developments in assessing the relationship between Gospel and Acts and the dating of both works, and (3) the implications that can be drawn from studying the evidence of Luke-Acts for reconstructing the life-world of the first Christian communities. Contributors include Giovanni Bazzana, Mark Bilby, Michelle Christian, Jens Herzer, John Kloppenborg, Manfred Lang, Markus Oehler, Thomas Phillips, Dieter Roth, Dan Smith, and Arjan Zuiderhoek.
A collection of 21 previously published essays and article organized under four headings: The Syn... more A collection of 21 previously published essays and article organized under four headings: The Synoptic Problem; The Sayings gospel Q; Mark; and Parables
Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present, 2012
Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood o... more Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations in Attica, Central Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, published with English translations, brief explanatory notes, commentaries and full indices. This volume is essential for several areas of study: ancient patterns of social organization; the organization of diasporic communities in the ancient Mediterranean; models for the structure of early Christian groups; and forms of sociability, status-displays, and the vocabularies of virtue.
This volume contains the acts of the international conference on the Synoptic Problem that was or... more This volume contains the acts of the international conference on the Synoptic Problem that was organised at Lincoln College, Oxford, in April 2008. The conference focused on offering a comprehensive assessment of the state of research into the Synoptic Problem over the last hundred years, indicating potential ways in which the discussion might be advanced. In more than thirty essays contributors have dealt with various aspects of the question, including the current state of synoptic studies in general, a comparative assessment of the major synoptic hypotheses, the synoptic gospels and ancient scribal practices, the role and function of hypothetical sources, the synoptic gospels and other gospels, and the reception history of the research.
This volume marks the centenary of the publication of the Studies in the Synoptic Problem by Members of the University of Oxford, the results of William Sanday’s “Seminar” that had ran for some fifteen years. But primarily it honours a distinguished contributor to current scholarship on the Synoptic Problem, Christopher M. Tuckett, Professor of New Testament studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College.
CONTENTS
The current state of the synoptic problem / Christopher M. Tuckett
Synopses and the synoptic problem / John S. Kloppenborg
What is literary dependence? / Andrew Gregory
Textual criticism and the synoptic problem / Peter M. Head
Reading Mark from the perspectives of different synoptic source hypotheses : historical, redactional and theological implications / D.B. Peabody
Matthew and the synoptic problem / D.C. Sim
The composition of Luke in source-critical perspective / John C. Poirier
The "minor agreements" and their bearing on the synoptic problem / M. Eugene Boring
Duality in Mark / Robert H. Stein
The Evangelists' use of the Old Testament and the synoptic problem / Mark Goodacre
Miracle stories and the synoptic problem / Duncan Reid
The parables and the synoptic problem / Charles W. Hedrick
Attitudes to Judaism and the law and synoptic relations / William R.G. Loader
The synoptic problem and the historical Jesus / William E. Arnal
The "external and psychological conditions under which the synoptic gospels were written" : ancient compositional practices and the synoptic problem / Robert A. Derrenbacker, Jr.
Memory, scribal media, and the synoptic problem / Alan Kirk
Ancient rhetoric and the synoptic problem / Alex Damm
The synoptic problem and literary mimesis : the case of the frothing demoniac / Dennis R. MacDonald
Writers' use or abuse of written sources / F. Gerald Downing
The synoptic problem without Q? / Eric C.S. Eve
Looking at Q through the eyes of Matthew / Ulrich Luz
The M-source : its history and demise in biblical scholarship / Paul Foster
Proto-Luke, and what can possibly be made of it / J. Verheyden
The Gospel of John and the synoptic problem / Richard Bauckham
The apostolic fathers and the synoptic problem / Andreas Lindemann
Übrige "apokryph gewordene" Evangelien und das synoptische Problem / Dieter Lührmann
Marcion and the synoptic problem / Judith Lieu
The longer Gospel of Mark and the synoptic problem / Scott G. Brown
The Gospel of (Judas) Thomas and the synoptic problem / Stephen J. Patterson
Die synoptische Frage in der Geschichte der neueren protestantischen Theologie / Udo Schnelle
White male dominance of synoptic gospel research and the creative process / Kathleen E. Corley
Another perspective on the "synoptic problem" / Christopher Rowland.
Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a dist... more Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a distinct and remarkable picture of Jesus and his significance--and one that differs markedly from that offered by its contemporary, the apostle Paul.
Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q, the true meaning of the "kingdom of God" is the fulfillment of a just society through the transformation of the human relationships within it.
Though this document has never been found, John Kloppenborg offers a succinct account of why scholars maintain it existed in the first place and demonstrates how they have been able to reconstruct its contents and wording from the two later Gospels that used it as a source: Matthew and Luke. Presented here in its entirety, as developed by the International Q Project, this Gospel reveals a very different portrait of Jesus than in much of the later canonical writings, challenging the way we think of Christian origins and the very nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
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students and people interested in the New Testament alike. One of the most
unique sources to access ancient everyday affairs are documentary papyri
because they provide access to the ancient world both before and while it
was shaped into one in which Christianity began to predominate. These textual sources allow the modern reader to meet everyday people from the past through their own writings and in texts about their daily affairs, joys, and sorrows. Documentary papyri provide an abundance of information to contextualize the New Testament and its authors, and to better understand its stories and messages.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Approaching James
Chapter Two: Attestation, Authorship, and Date
Chapter Three: Genre and Structure
Chapter Four: The Fabric of James: The Jewish Bible and the Jesus Tradition
Chapter Five: Addressees and Purpose
Epilogue: The Legacy of James
Index of References
Index of Special Vocabulary
Index of Modern Authors
This volume addresses the Synoptic Problem and how it emerged in a historical context closely connected with challenges to the historical reliability of the gospels; questions the ability of scholarship arriving at a compelling reconstruction of the historical Jesus; the limits of the canon; and an examination of the relationship between the historical reliability of gospel material and ecclesial dogma that was presumed to flow from the gospels.
The contributors, all experts in the Synoptic Problem, probe various sites and issues in the 19th and 20th century to elaborate how the Synoptic Problem and scholarship on the synoptic gospels was seen to complement, undergird, or complicate theological views. By exploring topics ranging from the Q hypothesis to the Markan priority and the Two Document hypothesis, this volume supplies extensive theological context to the beginnings of synoptic scholarship from an entirely new perspective.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Theological Issues at Stake in Early 20th Century Research on the Synoptic Problem -- C. M. Tuckett, University of Oxford, UK
2. The Decline of the Gospel Harmony: Loss or Gain? -- Marijke de Lang, United Bible Societies
3. The Archaeology of the Q Hypothesis: The Case of H. J. Holtzmann -- Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK
4. Memory, Tradition, and Synoptic Sources: The Quest of Holtzmann and Wernle for a Pre-Dogma Jesus – Alan Kirk, James Madison University, USA
5. The Search for “Urevangelium” as a Question of the Authority of the Jesus Tradition -- Markus Tiwald, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
6. The Rise of the Markan Priority Hypothesis and Early Responses and Challenges to It – Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, UK
7. "No Weapon but That of Analysis”: Issues at Stake in the Rise and Reception of the Two-Document Hypothesis – Daniel Smith, Huron University, Canada
8. The Synoptic Problem, the Apocryphal Gospels, and the Quest of the Historical Jesus: Towards a Reformulation of the Synoptic Problem -- Jens Schröter, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
9. French Catholic Scholars on the Synoptic Problem in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- Benedict Viviano, Fribourg University, Switzerland
10. Camouflaging Q: The Catholic 2DH from Lagrange to Sickenberger and Beyond -- John Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Canada
Bibliography
Index
As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ-followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small face-to-face meetings and provided the principal context for cultic and social interactions for their members. Unlike most other groups, however, about which we have data on their rules of membership, financial management, and organizational hierarchy, we have very little information about Christ groups..
Drawing on data about associative practices throughout the ancient world, this innovative study offers new insight into the structure and mission of the early Christian groups. John S. Kloppenborg situates the Christian associations within the broader historical context of the ancient Mediterranean and reveals that they were likely smaller than previously believed, did not have a uniform system of governance, and that the attraction of Christian groups was based more on practice than theological belief.
“This exceptionally important book offers a clearer understanding of who the early Christ followers really were, where they came from, and how their way of life eventually evolved into the preferred ‘religion’ of the Roman Empire.”— Anders Runesson, author of The Origins of the Synagogue
This volume marks the centenary of the publication of the Studies in the Synoptic Problem by Members of the University of Oxford, the results of William Sanday’s “Seminar” that had ran for some fifteen years. But primarily it honours a distinguished contributor to current scholarship on the Synoptic Problem, Christopher M. Tuckett, Professor of New Testament studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College.
CONTENTS
The current state of the synoptic problem / Christopher M. Tuckett
Synopses and the synoptic problem / John S. Kloppenborg
What is literary dependence? / Andrew Gregory
Textual criticism and the synoptic problem / Peter M. Head
Reading Mark from the perspectives of different synoptic source hypotheses : historical, redactional and theological implications / D.B. Peabody
Matthew and the synoptic problem / D.C. Sim
The composition of Luke in source-critical perspective / John C. Poirier
The "minor agreements" and their bearing on the synoptic problem / M. Eugene Boring
Duality in Mark / Robert H. Stein
The Evangelists' use of the Old Testament and the synoptic problem / Mark Goodacre
Miracle stories and the synoptic problem / Duncan Reid
The parables and the synoptic problem / Charles W. Hedrick
Attitudes to Judaism and the law and synoptic relations / William R.G. Loader
The synoptic problem and the historical Jesus / William E. Arnal
The "external and psychological conditions under which the synoptic gospels were written" : ancient compositional practices and the synoptic problem / Robert A. Derrenbacker, Jr.
Memory, scribal media, and the synoptic problem / Alan Kirk
Ancient rhetoric and the synoptic problem / Alex Damm
The synoptic problem and literary mimesis : the case of the frothing demoniac / Dennis R. MacDonald
Writers' use or abuse of written sources / F. Gerald Downing
The synoptic problem without Q? / Eric C.S. Eve
Looking at Q through the eyes of Matthew / Ulrich Luz
The M-source : its history and demise in biblical scholarship / Paul Foster
Proto-Luke, and what can possibly be made of it / J. Verheyden
The Gospel of John and the synoptic problem / Richard Bauckham
The apostolic fathers and the synoptic problem / Andreas Lindemann
Übrige "apokryph gewordene" Evangelien und das synoptische Problem / Dieter Lührmann
Marcion and the synoptic problem / Judith Lieu
The longer Gospel of Mark and the synoptic problem / Scott G. Brown
The Gospel of (Judas) Thomas and the synoptic problem / Stephen J. Patterson
Die synoptische Frage in der Geschichte der neueren protestantischen Theologie / Udo Schnelle
White male dominance of synoptic gospel research and the creative process / Kathleen E. Corley
Another perspective on the "synoptic problem" / Christopher Rowland.
Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q, the true meaning of the "kingdom of God" is the fulfillment of a just society through the transformation of the human relationships within it.
Though this document has never been found, John Kloppenborg offers a succinct account of why scholars maintain it existed in the first place and demonstrates how they have been able to reconstruct its contents and wording from the two later Gospels that used it as a source: Matthew and Luke. Presented here in its entirety, as developed by the International Q Project, this Gospel reveals a very different portrait of Jesus than in much of the later canonical writings, challenging the way we think of Christian origins and the very nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
(Publisher's blurb)
students and people interested in the New Testament alike. One of the most
unique sources to access ancient everyday affairs are documentary papyri
because they provide access to the ancient world both before and while it
was shaped into one in which Christianity began to predominate. These textual sources allow the modern reader to meet everyday people from the past through their own writings and in texts about their daily affairs, joys, and sorrows. Documentary papyri provide an abundance of information to contextualize the New Testament and its authors, and to better understand its stories and messages.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Approaching James
Chapter Two: Attestation, Authorship, and Date
Chapter Three: Genre and Structure
Chapter Four: The Fabric of James: The Jewish Bible and the Jesus Tradition
Chapter Five: Addressees and Purpose
Epilogue: The Legacy of James
Index of References
Index of Special Vocabulary
Index of Modern Authors
This volume addresses the Synoptic Problem and how it emerged in a historical context closely connected with challenges to the historical reliability of the gospels; questions the ability of scholarship arriving at a compelling reconstruction of the historical Jesus; the limits of the canon; and an examination of the relationship between the historical reliability of gospel material and ecclesial dogma that was presumed to flow from the gospels.
The contributors, all experts in the Synoptic Problem, probe various sites and issues in the 19th and 20th century to elaborate how the Synoptic Problem and scholarship on the synoptic gospels was seen to complement, undergird, or complicate theological views. By exploring topics ranging from the Q hypothesis to the Markan priority and the Two Document hypothesis, this volume supplies extensive theological context to the beginnings of synoptic scholarship from an entirely new perspective.
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Theological Issues at Stake in Early 20th Century Research on the Synoptic Problem -- C. M. Tuckett, University of Oxford, UK
2. The Decline of the Gospel Harmony: Loss or Gain? -- Marijke de Lang, United Bible Societies
3. The Archaeology of the Q Hypothesis: The Case of H. J. Holtzmann -- Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK
4. Memory, Tradition, and Synoptic Sources: The Quest of Holtzmann and Wernle for a Pre-Dogma Jesus – Alan Kirk, James Madison University, USA
5. The Search for “Urevangelium” as a Question of the Authority of the Jesus Tradition -- Markus Tiwald, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
6. The Rise of the Markan Priority Hypothesis and Early Responses and Challenges to It – Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, UK
7. "No Weapon but That of Analysis”: Issues at Stake in the Rise and Reception of the Two-Document Hypothesis – Daniel Smith, Huron University, Canada
8. The Synoptic Problem, the Apocryphal Gospels, and the Quest of the Historical Jesus: Towards a Reformulation of the Synoptic Problem -- Jens Schröter, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
9. French Catholic Scholars on the Synoptic Problem in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- Benedict Viviano, Fribourg University, Switzerland
10. Camouflaging Q: The Catholic 2DH from Lagrange to Sickenberger and Beyond -- John Kloppenborg, University of Toronto, Canada
Bibliography
Index
As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ-followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in small face-to-face meetings and provided the principal context for cultic and social interactions for their members. Unlike most other groups, however, about which we have data on their rules of membership, financial management, and organizational hierarchy, we have very little information about Christ groups..
Drawing on data about associative practices throughout the ancient world, this innovative study offers new insight into the structure and mission of the early Christian groups. John S. Kloppenborg situates the Christian associations within the broader historical context of the ancient Mediterranean and reveals that they were likely smaller than previously believed, did not have a uniform system of governance, and that the attraction of Christian groups was based more on practice than theological belief.
“This exceptionally important book offers a clearer understanding of who the early Christ followers really were, where they came from, and how their way of life eventually evolved into the preferred ‘religion’ of the Roman Empire.”— Anders Runesson, author of The Origins of the Synagogue
This volume marks the centenary of the publication of the Studies in the Synoptic Problem by Members of the University of Oxford, the results of William Sanday’s “Seminar” that had ran for some fifteen years. But primarily it honours a distinguished contributor to current scholarship on the Synoptic Problem, Christopher M. Tuckett, Professor of New Testament studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College.
CONTENTS
The current state of the synoptic problem / Christopher M. Tuckett
Synopses and the synoptic problem / John S. Kloppenborg
What is literary dependence? / Andrew Gregory
Textual criticism and the synoptic problem / Peter M. Head
Reading Mark from the perspectives of different synoptic source hypotheses : historical, redactional and theological implications / D.B. Peabody
Matthew and the synoptic problem / D.C. Sim
The composition of Luke in source-critical perspective / John C. Poirier
The "minor agreements" and their bearing on the synoptic problem / M. Eugene Boring
Duality in Mark / Robert H. Stein
The Evangelists' use of the Old Testament and the synoptic problem / Mark Goodacre
Miracle stories and the synoptic problem / Duncan Reid
The parables and the synoptic problem / Charles W. Hedrick
Attitudes to Judaism and the law and synoptic relations / William R.G. Loader
The synoptic problem and the historical Jesus / William E. Arnal
The "external and psychological conditions under which the synoptic gospels were written" : ancient compositional practices and the synoptic problem / Robert A. Derrenbacker, Jr.
Memory, scribal media, and the synoptic problem / Alan Kirk
Ancient rhetoric and the synoptic problem / Alex Damm
The synoptic problem and literary mimesis : the case of the frothing demoniac / Dennis R. MacDonald
Writers' use or abuse of written sources / F. Gerald Downing
The synoptic problem without Q? / Eric C.S. Eve
Looking at Q through the eyes of Matthew / Ulrich Luz
The M-source : its history and demise in biblical scholarship / Paul Foster
Proto-Luke, and what can possibly be made of it / J. Verheyden
The Gospel of John and the synoptic problem / Richard Bauckham
The apostolic fathers and the synoptic problem / Andreas Lindemann
Übrige "apokryph gewordene" Evangelien und das synoptische Problem / Dieter Lührmann
Marcion and the synoptic problem / Judith Lieu
The longer Gospel of Mark and the synoptic problem / Scott G. Brown
The Gospel of (Judas) Thomas and the synoptic problem / Stephen J. Patterson
Die synoptische Frage in der Geschichte der neueren protestantischen Theologie / Udo Schnelle
White male dominance of synoptic gospel research and the creative process / Kathleen E. Corley
Another perspective on the "synoptic problem" / Christopher Rowland.
Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q, the true meaning of the "kingdom of God" is the fulfillment of a just society through the transformation of the human relationships within it.
Though this document has never been found, John Kloppenborg offers a succinct account of why scholars maintain it existed in the first place and demonstrates how they have been able to reconstruct its contents and wording from the two later Gospels that used it as a source: Matthew and Luke. Presented here in its entirety, as developed by the International Q Project, this Gospel reveals a very different portrait of Jesus than in much of the later canonical writings, challenging the way we think of Christian origins and the very nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
(Publisher's blurb)
to imitate both civic structures and practices, and also the civic value
of democratic autonomy. These practices and values persisted even
with the decline of civic autonomy in the imperial period. Many
of the practices of Christ groups can be regarded as emulations of
these democratic values such that Christ groups might be treated as
‘mini-democracies’.
Mark locate the anointing of Jesus during the last week of his life (Mark 14:3–9 // Matt 26:6–13), Luke locates it in the midst of Jesus’s activities in the Galilee (Luke 7:36–50).
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Sept. 18–19, 2015