The Lost Gospel Q - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Gospel Q write by Marcus Borg. This book was released on 1999-03-15. The Lost Gospel Q available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the original teachings of Jesus written by his contemporaries and early followers
Q, the Earliest Gospel
Q, the Earliest Gospel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Q, the Earliest Gospel write by John S. Kloppenborg. This book was released on 2008-10-03. Q, the Earliest Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a distinct and remarkable picture of Jesus and his significance--and one that differs markedly from that offered by its contemporary, the apostle Paul. Q presents Jesus as a prophetic critic of unbelief and a sage with the wisdom that can transform. In Q, the true meaning of the "kingdom of God" is the fulfillment of a just society through the transformation of the human relationships within it. Though this document has never been found, John Kloppenborg offers a succinct account of why scholars maintain it existed in the first place and demonstrates how they have been able to reconstruct its contents and wording from the two later Gospels that used it as a source: Matthew and Luke. Presented here in its entirety, as developed by the International Q Project, this Gospel reveals a very different portrait of Jesus than in much of the later canonical writings, challenging the way we think of Christian origins and the very nature and mission of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel of Q
The Gospel of Q - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel of Q write by Mark M. Mattison. This book was released on 2016-09-16. The Gospel of Q available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Decades before our earliest preserved Gospels were first penned, the things Jesus said and did were passed down by word of mouth among his followers. However, by carefully comparing Matthew, Mark, and Luke, biblical scholars have discerned a written source even earlier than these texts: The Gospel commonly known as "Q," from the German word for "source." Written in Greek sometime between 50 and 70 CE, this collection of Jesus' teachings was used by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Following the meticulous reconstruction of Q by an international team of experts, this new translation highlights the wisdom of Jesus' prophetic message - the Gospel behind the Gospels.
The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q
The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q write by Daniel A. Smith. This book was released on 2007-01-06. The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Q 13:34-35, the Jerusalem Logion, aligns the rejection of the speaker by Jerusalem both with the abandonment of Jerusalem's house and with the future invisibility and return of the speaker: 'You will not see me until you say, Blessed is the Coming One in the name of the Lord' (13:35b). The coincidence of not seeing language with a reference to a future coming is reminiscent of the connection, in Jewish literature especially, between the assumption and eschatological function. The book proposes that this reference to Jesus' assumption is a clue to how Q conceives of the post-mortem vindication of Jesus, since numerous Q sayings presuppose a knowledge of Jesus' death. In support of this, the book argues that in Hellenistic Jewish writings assumption was not always considered to be an escape from death (as in the biblical instances of Enoch and Elijah), but could happen at or after death, as was more clearly the case in Greek thought. Such a strategy of vindication is necessary for Q because it evidences a belief in Jesus' ongoing existence and future return as the Son of Man, and because resurrection though a feature of Q's eschatology is not individually applied to Jesus. A similar view is presupposed by the pre-Markan empty tomb tradition, which describes the disappearance of Jesus' body but narrates neither the resurrection itself nor an appearance of the risen Jesus. The book also draws out implications of the thesis for the place of the Sayings Gospel Q within the early Christian movements, particularly vis-vis the vindication of Jesus.
The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English
The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English write by James McConkey Robinson. This book was released on 2001. The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sayings Gospel Q in Greek and English with Parallels from the Gospels of Mark and Thomas is the outcome of a generation's work by the International Q Project, in reconstructing the collection of sayings ascribed to Jesus (and some to John) that lies behind the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. It thus makes available in a convenient form the most important source for reconstructing the message of Jesus' original Galilean followers, as they proclaimed anew after his death his message of God's reign. Q is, as a result, the most important single source for the study of the historical Jesus. It should be in the hands of every student of theology and of every layperson seriously interested in knowing more about Jesus. This small volume presents, on facing pages, the Greek and English reconstruction of the text of Q. It is in a simplified and more readable format than its original massive publication of 1990, The Critical Edition of Q: Synopsis including the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Mark and Thomas with English, German and French Translations of Q and Thomas, edited by James M. Robinson, Paul Hoffmann, and John S. Kloppenborg, Managing Editor Milton C. Moreland, at Peeters and Fortress Press.
