Built on Rock or Sand?: Q Studies: Retrospects, Introspects and Prospects

This volume contains the proceedings of an international Q symposium

held at Graz University on July 20 - 23, 2011. The conference presented

the current state of Q studies and spelled out their future directions

through interpretations of particular texts and methodological

reflections. One important thrust of the discussions during the

conference concerned the literary character of Q: Is it possible or

indeed necessary to reconstruct the wording of Q? How coherent,

finished and scribalized was Q? Other central topics related to the

social and theological importance of Q: What were the contexts of the

composition of Q? How can the relationships between Q and ancient

Judaism(s) and nascent Christ groups be described?

Particular attention was given to the issues of (1) oral and scribal

factors, (2) narratological and intertextual approaches, (3)

reconstruction and redaction criticism, (4) ethos and Torah, (5) Q and

the Gospel of Matthew, (6) Q and the Gospel of John and (7) new

approaches to the Q hypothesis and the Synoptic Problem.

Contributors include G.B. Bazzana, R.A. Derrenbacker, Jr., D. Dormeyer,

H.T. Fleddermann, P. Foster, M. Frenschkowski, P.J. Judge, S.R. Johnson,

J.S. Kloppenborg, M. Labahn, D.R. MacDonald, D.T. Roth, C.K. Rothschild,

F. Siegert, D.A. Smith, M. Theobald, M. Tiwald, C. Tuckett, S.

Witetschek, V. Wittkowsky, and R. Zimmermann.