Jesus in Q - Paperback

by Ky-Chun So (Author), Dennis Ronald MacDonald (Foreword by)

JESUS IN Q is about the Sabbath and the theology of Jesus. There are several books about the Sabbath with regard to the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but nothing regarding Q. This book is designed to address the relation to the Sabbath in Q which makes it remarkable amongst other Sabbath related books with reference to the Synoptic Gospels. Considering the rabbinic writers and the early fathers, who have used, generally in a free way, the sayings of Jesus drawn from the Gospels and/or oral tradition, this book examines the apologists and the extracanonical writers, whose writings constitute a well-defined literary genre and witness a progressively more bookish use of the sayings of Jesus. This book understands the extracanonical documents in early Judaism as a prerequisite for understanding the appearances of Jesus.

Author Biography

Professor Ky-Chun So graduated from the Claremont School of Theology and the Claremont Graduate University, California, USA. Currently he is the Kwang Jang Chair Professor of the New Testament, Early Christianity, and the Nag Hammadi Library at Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary (www.puts.ac.kr), Seoul, Korea. He is also Director of the Jesus' Sayings Hub (www.jesussayings.net) and the President of the Society of Korean Q Studies. He is the Korean author of Trajectories through the Sayings of Jesus (2000) and An Introduction to the Sayings Gospel Q (2004).