Synoptic problems : collected essays / John S. Kloppenborg.

Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The theological stakes in the Synoptic problem -- Is there a new paradigm? -- On dispensing with Q? Goodacre on the relation of Luke to Matthew -- Variation in the reproduction of the double tradition and an oral Q? -- Synopses and the synoptic problem -- Symbolic eschatology and the apocalypticism of Q -- "Easter faith" and the Sayings Gospel Q -- Nomos and ethos in Q -- City and wasteland: narrative world and the beginning of the Sayings Gospel (Q) -- Literary evidence, self-evidence, and the social history of the Q people -- The Sayings Gospel Q: literary and stratigraphic problems -- A dog among the pigeons: the 'cynic hypothesis' as a theological problem -- Discursive practices in the Sayings Gospel Q and the quest for the historical Jesus -- Egyptian viticultural practices and the citation of Isa 5:1-7 in Mark 12:1-9 -- Self-help or Deus ex machina in Mark 12:9? -- Evocatio deorum and the date of Mark -- Agrarian discourse in the sayings of Jesus -- Jesus and the parables of Jesus in Q -- The Parable of the Prodigal Son and deeds of gift -- Pastoralism, papyri and the Parable of the Shepherd -- The representation of violence in the Synoptic parables.

This volume contains a collection of twenty-one essays of John S. Kloppenborg, with four foci: conceptual and methodological issues in the Synoptic Problem; the Sayings Gospel Q; the Gospel of Mark; and the Parables of Jesus. Kloppenborg, a major contributor to the Synoptic Problem, is especially interested in how one constructs synoptic hypotheses, always aware of the many gaps in our knowledge, the presence of competing hypotheses, and the theological and historical entailments in any given hypothesis. Common to the essays in the remaining three sections is the insistence that the literature.

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