Jesus and the Gospel of Q: Christ's Pre-Christian Teachings As Recorded in the New Testament

Lochlainn Seabrook
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Jesus and the Gospel of Q: Christ's Pre-Christian Teachings As Recorded in the New Testament

Lochlainn Seabrook
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  • Date de publication : Apr 23, 2020
  • Langue : anglais
  • Nombre de pages : 122
  • Éditeur : Sea Raven Press
  • ISBN : 9781943737833
  • Dimensions : 5.5" W x 0.44" L x 8.5" H

BOOK DEVIL REVIEW: In Jesus and the Gospel of Q, scholar and prolific author Lochlainn Seabrook does his own breakdown of the Q document by presenting, culled from their respective gospels, the sequence of Q sayings as found in each of the three synoptic gospels. He identifies three Q layers, each increasingly removed from the less-tampered-with early stage of Q. The first and earliest layer, Seabrook asserts, is the closest to the seminal phase of the Q document's evolution, said earliest stage being truest to what a historical Jesus with a gnostic bent may actually have taught. This earliest layer of Q came before the advent of Christianity (which, as a breakoff, independent religion separate from Judaism, was preached and established by certain significant figures of Christianity in the wake of Christ's death) and proposed no new religion with Christ at its head but rather the spiritual reform of the current faith, a Judaism that had lapsed into spiritless surface veneer that was not only ineffectual but downright spiritually degrading. The proposed second and third Q layers were increasingly manipulated, molded and manufactured, culminating in the total suppression of Q, except as it can be, with some scholarly insight and a nice bit of educated guesswork, extracted from where its contents are embedded in the canonical gospels. The non-story sayings collection that Q was at the onset was ultimately buried under the story form that grew from the incrementally more fudged-with subsequent layers. Following a compact but comprehensive introduction that explains Q theory, the core chapters are Q verses, the three Q layers extant in each synoptic gospel, presented in a simple context that allows the reader to see the developing themes of each Q layer, and thus the shift from the original Q layer's themes and simple non-narrative structure, through Q2's shift in focus, to the final Q layer and the religious narratives that arose gospels from the ashes of Q1's simple profundity. Dealing in theory means that Seabrook's breakdown - which he admits differs from classical Q theory here and there - is one of those educated scholarly guesses (no derision intended) that can never be authoritatively established. Unless somebody messes around and finds an actual extant Q document languishing in a cave somewhere. Barring that unlikely event, these intelligent surmises will be the closest to a Q document we'll get. Seabrook's culling and organized presentation of Q as merged into the synoptics is a fine introduction to Q theory as well as a polished presentation of what Q may very well have been, in each of its evolving reiterations. - KRISTOFER UPJOHN

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