The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, and Wisdom Redaction in Q

by Alan Kirk

This volume analyzes the "Q materials" in the light of compositional conventions of ancient instructional genres. The author begins by assessing literary-critical approaches to Q which began with Harnack and have culminated in the work of Kloppenborg, Sato, and others. Next he articulates a theory of genre analysis drawn from text-linguistics, literary criticism, and rhetorical criticism. An array of ancient paraenetic texts is used to generate genre-critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004110852
• ISBN13: 9789004110854
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 462 Pages