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The New Q - A Translation with Commentary (Paperback)
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The New Q - A Translation with Commentary (Paperback)
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The American and European public has a voracious appetite for more
information about Jesus and the formation of early Christianity.
The best-selling books on the subject by Marcus Borg, John Dominic
Crossan, John Meyer, and Luke Timothy Johnson, among many others,
attest to this hunger. But each of these scholars presents his own
reading of the historical information, usually beginning with the
earliest known Jesus-related material, Jesus' sayings, and leads
the public into a particular understanding of Jesus and the early
Jesus movements. The New Q will provide the general public with the
original source through a fresh translation of the early Sayings
Gospel known as Q. This book will guide people through their
reading of the texts themselves so that readers will be able to
judge the validity of other scholars' reconstructions. The New Q is
the companion volume necessary to understand the current writing on
the historical Jesus and the history of earliest Christianity.
Valantasis provides a new translation of the Synoptic Sayings
Source, Q. He translates each section from the Greek of the
critical edition of Robinson and Kloppenborg, and he gathers the
translation of the full text as a coherent collection of sayings at
the end of the book. Avoiding the scholarly arguments that make Q
inaccessible, as well as the constant comparison of Matthew and
Luke, this commentary will straightforwardly present the text based
on the work of those scholars who have provided a critical edition.
It provides an initial reading in a language appropriate to
religious seekers. The translation itself will be fresh and
provocative, since its meaning and interpretation are not linked to
its later use in the narrative gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke.
In fact, readers of this translation will be able to hear the
sayings of Jesus as Matthew and Luke heard them before the writing
of their gospels. The goal is to recreate the kind of challenging
and intellectually stimulating engagement with the sayings that
probably put Christianity on the Roman map. Readers will be able to
encounter Jesus' voice and the voices of early Christians directly,
without the intrusion of the later use of these sayings by the
gospel writers. Valantasis also provides a commentary on each of
the sayings. The commentary will focus on three facets: what the
saying says, what it could have meant at the time, and how is was
used by early Christians. The first two questions provide the basic
information by developing a literary analysis of the sayings (a
reading of Jesus' words) and by positing a significance for the
saying in the context of earliest Christianity (what the saying
could have meant). The final question directs the reading of the
saying toward its use by religious people then and now as a means
of forging an alternative subjectivity, defining new religious and
social relationships, and constructing an alternative understanding
of the nature of the spiritual and physical world. In other words,
this commentary will provide an ascetical reading of the sayings to
explore the manner in which the sayings source might have been read
by individuals and communities in antiquity, and it will provide an
alternative to the currently established reading of the sayings in
modern scholarship primarily as a window on the historical Jesus'
doctrines and teaching.
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