Framing social criticism in the Jesus movement
Subtitle: the ideological project in the Sayings Gospel Q
By: Sarah E. Rollens
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 374; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 374.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9783161531200
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Origin; Sociological aspects; Soziales System; Kristendom; Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism); Urchristentum; Church history; Christianity; Primitive and early church; Källor; Sozialgeschichtliche Exegese; Sozialreform; Logienquelle; Ländlicher Raum; Q-källan
Description: Which milieu did the earliest rural Jesus movement emerge from? Sarah E. Rollens provides a sociological study of the earliest Christians in rural Palestine based on evidence in the Sayings Gospels Q. She compares this Jesus movement to other movements of social reform in similar socio-cultural contexts.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Peasantry in Christian origins : on the origins and utility of a scholarly category; title: The sociology of the middle in antiquity; title: The problem of Q; title: Recent perspectives on the "Q people"; title: The ideological project in Q; title: Conclusion : implications for the Galilean Jesus movement.