Jesus and the Village Scribes
William E ArnalPaperback 2001-10-02
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This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions are drawn: 1) the textual evidence for the "wandering radicals" hypothesis is not tenable and 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 changes going on in Galilee which affected their social standing.Arnal moves beyond earlier Q studies, which focused almost exclusively on literary history without dealing with the social realities of the first century.
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Publisher Description
This volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions are drawn: 1) the textual evidence for the "wandering radicals" hypothesis is not tenable and 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 changes going on in Galilee which affected their social standing.Arnal moves beyond earlier Q studies, which focused almost exclusively on literary history without dealing with the social realities of the first century.