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Author Smith, Daniel Alan, 1963-

Title The post-mortem vindication of Jesus in the sayings Gospel Q / Daniel A. Smith.

Publication Info. London ; New York : T & T Clark, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Library of New Testament studies ; 338
Library of New Testament studies ; 338.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and indexes.
Contents Death and resurrection of Jesus in Q? -- Q 13.34-35, the Jerusalem lament : survey of research -- Assumption in antiquity -- Death and Assumption of Jesus in Q 13.34-35 -- Significance of Assumption in Q 13.34-35 for other Q materials -- Assumption of Jesus in Q and early Christianity -- Conclusion: Resurrection and/or Assumption : how different is Q?
Summary The Sayings Gospel Q, which is conspicuously silent on the issues of Jesus' death and resurrection, nonetheless shows evidence of a knowledge of Jesus' death and of a strategy for accounting for Jesus' vindication. The dissertation argues that Q thinks of Jesus' end as an assumption, a bodily removal from earth to heaven, as happened to figures such as Enoch and Elijah in Jewish tradition. Q 13:34-35, the Jerusalem Lament (Matt 23:37-39 par. Luke 13:34-35), is the central text examined. In this saying, Jesus predicts that "You will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is the Coming One in the name of the Lord'" (Q 13:35b). The language of "not seeing" or disappearance was a consistent feature in Hellenistic assumption narratives, and in Jewish tradition a special eschatological function was typically accorded to those taken away by God in this way. The connection between assumption and eschatological function is seen in Q not only in the reference to the "Coming One" in Q 13:35 (a citation of Ps 118:26), but also in the redactional connections made by Q between materials dealing with an absent master and a suddenly returning Son of man (Q 12:39-40, 12:42b-46; Q 17 'passim' and Q 19). Since Q apparently knows about Jesus' death; yet contains no hint of resurrection theology, the possibility arises that assumption, not resurrection, was how the Q people understood Jesus' vindication by God after his death. The thesis evaluates scholarship on related issues, the death of Jesus in Q and the possibility of an "Easter faith" in Q (Chapter One), and discusses the most significant contributions to the understanding of the Jerusalem Lament as a piece of Q material (Chapter Two). Chapter Three surveys assumption theology in Greco-Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources. Chapter Four discusses in detail the presence of assumption theology in Q 13:34-35, and Chapter Five investigates the implications of the central thesis for Q as a whole. Finally, other early Christian texts which might betray a similar perspective on Jesus' post-mortem vindication are discussed (Chapter Six).
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Subject Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Gospels.
Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion.
Jesus Christ.
Crucifixion.
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ -- Resurrection.
Resurrection.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion.
Jesus Christ -- Resurrection.
Bible. Gospels.
Jesus Christus / Auferstehung.
Logienquelle.
Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism)
Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Daniel Alan, 1963- Post-mortem vindication of Jesus in the sayings Gospel Q. London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2006 0567044742 (DLC) 2007295230 (OCoLC)71808179
ISBN 9780567109873 (electronic book)
0567109879 (electronic book)
1283192535
9781283192538
0567044742
9780567044747