Metaphor, Narrative, and Parables in Q

by Dieter T. Roth, Ruben Zimmermann (Editor), Michael Labahn (Editor)

Research on Q has frequently been driven by questions addressing the legitimacy of the two-source hypothesis or by questions related to the reconstruction of this source. As such, Q scholarship has often viewed its tasks primarily through the lenses of source- and redaction-critical perspectives. The authors of this volume make a conscious effort to refocus, at least to a certain extent, discussions concerning Q from questions of reconstruction to narratival and metaphorical aspects of this text. Narrative elements such as space, time, characters, plot, etc. on the one hand, and metaphorical elements such as Bildfeldtradition, socio-historical aspects of the images employed, etc., on the other, can be recognized and examined even apart from a precise, verbal reconstruction of a text.

423 pages, Hardcover

First published January 11, 2013

Reviews

[Tsun Lu]

A fresh endeavor of the modern formal critics using innovative methods.