Whoever Hears You Hears Me Prophets, Performance, and Tradition in Q,9781563382727

Whoever Hears You Hears Me Prophets, Performance, and Tradition in Q

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ISBN13: 9781563382727
ISBN10: 1563382725
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary

Here is a challenge to New Testament scholars to engage in a fresh analysis of Q. The authors argue that recent American study of Q has been dominated by those trained in form-criticism and oriented to Hellenistic rather than Judean culture, resulting in

Table of Contents

Abbreviations x
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(310)
Richard A. Horsley
Questioning Inappropriate Assumptions and Concepts for a Clearer View of Q
2(3)
Toward an Understanding of Oral Communication and of Q as Oral-Derived Literature
5(6)
The Sequence of Chapters on Q Discourses
11(1)
A Note on the Presentation of Q Discourses
12(3)
The Teachings of Jesus and Liberal Individualism
15(14)
Richard A. Horsley
Aphorism and Individualism
15(3)
The Reductionist Hermenutics of Modern Liberalism
18(4)
Harnack's Different Reading of Q
22(7)
Wandering Charismatics and Scholarly Circularities
29(17)
Jonathan A. Draper
The Theory of Religious Role Adoption and Its Implications
30(4)
Weber's Charisma and Theissen's Wandering Charismatics
34(6)
Apostles and Prophets in the Didache
40(4)
Weber and the Didache vs. Theissen's Wandering Charismatics
44(2)
The Historical Context of Q
46(15)
Richard A. Horsley
A Brief History of Galilee
48(4)
Social Forms and Power Relations in Galilee and Roman Palestine
52(9)
The Contours of Q
61(33)
Richard A. Horsley
The Quest for Control of Q: Of Theology and Stratigraphy
61(22)
Q as a Sequence of Discourses
83(11)
Israelite Traditions in Q
94(29)
Richard A. Horsley
Survey of Q Discourses and Israelite Traditions
95(3)
Great/Official vs. Little/Popular Tradition
98(6)
Contested Israelite Traditions in Q
104(19)
The Oral Communication Environment of Q
123(27)
Richard A. Horsley
Limited Literacy in Western Antiquity
125(3)
Uses of Writing in Relation to Oral Communication
128(7)
Manuscripts and Oral Communication in Judea and Galilee
135(9)
Implications for Q
144(6)
Recent Studies of Oral-Derived Literature and Q
150(25)
Richard A. Horsley
Recognition of Orality in the Synoptic Tradition, Q, and Mark
151(9)
Immanent Art and Ethnopoetics
160(6)
The Theory of Verbal Art and Q
166(9)
Recovering Oral Performance from Written Text in Q
175(20)
Jonathan A. Draper
Toward a Model of Oral Communication
175(8)
Oral Communication Surviving in the Written Medium
183(3)
Toward Hearing Q Discourses in Measured Verse
186(3)
Application of the Model: Q 12:49-59 in Measured Verse
189(6)
The Covenant Renewal Discourse: Q 6:20-49
195(33)
Richard A. Horsley
The Coherence and Covenantal Character of the Discourse
195(6)
The Continuing Importance of Covenantal Patterns and Teaching
201(8)
The ``Text'' of Q 6:20-49
209(7)
Q 6:20-49 as a Covenant Renewal Discourse
216(9)
Convenant Renewal in the Popular Tradition vs. Sapiential Covenantal Teaching
225(3)
Prophetic Envoys for the Renewal of Israel: Q 9:57-10:16
228(22)
Richard A. Horsley
Toward Contextual Interpretation
228(6)
The Text of the Mission Discourse in Oral Performance
234(3)
Metonymic Referencing and Resonance in the Mission Discourse
237(11)
Function of the Mission Discourse in the Communities of the Q Movement
248(2)
The Announcement and Testing of the Prophet
250(10)
Jonathan A. Draper
The Announcement of the Prophet: Q 3:7-9, 16-17, 21-22
251(3)
The Testing of the Prophet: Q 4:1-13
254(4)
The Sequence of Discourses
258(2)
The Kingdom of God as the Renewal of Israel
260(17)
Richard A. Horsley
Other Q Discourses Addressed to the Life of the Renewal Movement
261(9)
Q Discourses Addressed to Communities of a Movement under Attack
270(5)
Q Discourses That Sanction Discipline and Solidarity in the Communities
275(2)
The Renewal of Israel Over Against Its Rulers
277(15)
Richard A. Horsley
Against the Jerusalem Rulers: Q 13:29-28, 34-35 + 14:16-24
279(6)
The Prophetic Woes against the Pharisees and Scribes: Q 11:39-52
285(7)
The Renewal Movement and the Prophet Performers of Q
292(19)
Richard A. Horsley
Shift in Assumption (Oral vs. Written) Requires Shift in Approach
292(3)
The Renewal Movement Evident in Q Discourses
295(5)
Prophetic Performers of the Q Discourses
300(11)
Index of References 311(11)
General Index 322

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