Columbus, Q and Rome
Subtitle: reframing interpretation of the Christian Bible
By: Leif E. Vaage
Series: Stuttgarter biblische Aufsatzbände -- 52; Stuttgarter biblische Aufsatzbände -- 52.
Publisher: Katholisches Bibelwerk
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9783460065215
Subjects: Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism); Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Historicity; Christianity
Description: Read together, these essays display the logic that would link a cultural history of the Christian Bible in Latin America, historical analysis of the Synoptic Sayings Source, and explanation of the eventual "success" of Christianity within the Roman empire, as being all efforts first, to displace, and then, to reframe scholarly interpretation of the Christian Bible. Written over the past 20 years in Lima, Perú, and in Toronto, Canada, these essays aim to expose the distinctly modern cultural assumptions often governing historical biblical scholarship as well as to develop alternative perspectives on these topics.
Notes: 10 out of 14 contributions were published elsewhere previously between 1991 and 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Text, context, conquest, quest : the Bible and social struggle in Latin America; title: Subversive Scriptures : revolutionary readings of the Christian Bible in Latin America : introduction; title: Compass, cannonball, counterweight, charter : toward a cultural history of the Christian Bible in Latin America; title: The excluded one : (un)popular christology and the quest for the historical Jesus in Europe, North America, and Latin America; title: Q(1) and the historical Jesus : some peculiar sayings; title: The contradictions of subversive wisdom : Diogenes of Sinope, Q, and the living Jesus; title: More than a prophet, and demon-possessed : Q and the historical John; title: Q and cynicism : on comparison and social identity; title: Qumran, Q, and the historical Jesus; title: Jewish Scripture, Q, and the historical Jesus : a cynic way with the word?; title: Q, itinerancy, and early Christian history; title: Beyond nationalism : Jesus, the 'holy anarchist'? : the cynic Jesus as eternal recurrence of the repressed; title: Ancient religious rivalries and the struggle for success : Christians, Jews, and others in the Roman Empire; title: Why Christianity succeeded (in) the Roman Empire.