Jesus and the Village Scribes

This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of wandering radicals as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge: (1) the textual evidence for the wandering radicals hypothesis is not tenable and it must be replaced with one that more closely comports with the evidence: (2) the immediate context of the Jesus movement, and of Q in particular, is the socio-economic crisis in Galilee under the Romans; and (3) the formation of Q is the product of Galilean village scribes in the Jesus movement reacting to the negative developments in Galilee that affected their social standing.

Arnal moves decisively beyond earlier Q studies, which focused almost exclusively on literary history without dealing with the social realitites of the first century.

Author: William E. Arnal
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.03w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780800632601

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