Jesus and the Village Scribes: Galilean Conflicts and the Setting of Q

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By William E. Arnal. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001. xiv + 290 pp. $26.00 (paper).

In this book based on his 1997 dissertation under John S. Kloppenborg, Arnal's thesis is that the language of reversal or uprootedness in Q is best explained as the work of village scribes in Galilee who have lost social status as a result of economic/political changes in first century Galilee. The book, however, is mostly prolegomena to his reading of Q's reversal language, for Arnal is as much concerned to demonstrate the inadequacy of the itinerancy hypothesis for understanding Q. In the first two ...

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