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John the Baptist and the Jesus Movement: What Does Q Tell Us?
Abstract
This chapter focuses on John the Baptist, and particularly his preaching as reported in Q 3. It demonstrates the importance of the Q research to crucial issues by making John's preaching the focal point. The contrast between Jesus and John in Q 7:33-34 has to do with the lifestyle of the two prophets. The author discusses as to why was a collection of Jesus' sayings introduced by a collection of John's sayings. He reaches the conclusion that the preaching of John is an integral part of the text-world and the symbolic world of Q. The author finds it difficult to decide the chiastic form of the saying in Q or the Markan construction is more original. He raises the question, whether the apocalyptic material in Q 3 can easily be imagined to derive from such a Baptist sect?. Keywords: Baptist sect; Jesus; Jesus Movement; John; John the Baptist; Markan construction
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- Authors
- Uro, R.
- Corresponding author
- Uro, Risto
- ORCID
- Uro, Risto
- Venue
- The Gospel behind the Gospels
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 1994-01-01
- Pages
- 231-257
- OpenAlex
- W922782782
- Cited by
- 1
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- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical and Linguistic Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity
- Keywords
- John the Baptist, Jesus movement, Q source, Baptist preaching, chiastic structure, sayings of Jesus
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