The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus - Softcover

Borg, Marcus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569751897 ISBN 13: 9781569751893

Publisher: Ulysses Press, 2022

Synopsis

The image of the historical Jesus takes form in the words of the Gospel Q. The Lost Gospel Q represents the very first Gospel, older than the traditional Gospels and written by Jesus' contemporaries. It preserves Jesus' original words ― the Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, parables, and his counsel for a compassionate life. The original of the Gospel Q was lost for 2,000 years, but for the past 150 years historians and theologians have been digging through the many layers of the New Testament to uncover the original Gospel.

About this title

About the Author:

Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and Jesus: A New Vision, lives in Portland, OR. Thomas Moore is the author of Care of the Soul, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Wilton, NH.

From Booklist:

So many particularly pithy passages appear in both Matthew and Luke that scholars believe those Gospels are based on an earlier compilation of the sayings of Jesus, designated Q, after the German word Quelle, which means "source." Scoring modern-day scholars for not previously presenting the general public with an edition of this hypothetical first gospel, editor-translators Powelson and Riegert make up the lack. They base their work, as have the Bible's English-language translators since even before the King James Version, on the wordings of previous renditions. (Why? Because Q exists entirely within the texts of Matthew and Luke.) Their versions of these, to Christians and the Christian-bred, very familiar words are crystalline and contemporary and may inspire new insight for many a reader. Meanwhile, their introduction and those by best-selling inspirational writer Thomas Moore and Jesus Seminar scholar Marcus Borg, respectively, put Q in inspirational, historical, and critical context. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1569751897
• ISBN 13: 9781569751893
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128