Metaphor, Narrative, and Parables in Q

Research on Q has frequently been driven by questions addressing the legitimacy of the two-source hypothesis or by questions related to the reconstruction of this source. As such, Q scholarship has often viewed its tasks primarily through the lenses of source- and redaction-critical perspectives. The authors of this volume make a conscious effort to refocus, at least to a certain extent, discussions concerning Q from questions of reconstruction to narratival and metaphorical aspects of this text. Narrative elements such as space, time, characters, plot, etc. on the one hand, and metaphorical elements such as Bildfeldtradition, socio-historical aspects of the images employed, etc., on the other, can be recognized and examined even apart from a precise, verbal reconstruction of a text.

Geboren 1964; 1998 Dr. theol.; 2009 Habilitation; außerplanmäßiger Professor an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Research Fellow an der Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Geboren 1968; 1999 Promotion zum Dr. theol. an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; 1999 Ordination zum Pfarrer der Ev. Landeskirche in Baden; 2003 Habilitation an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Professor für Neues Testament an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Mitbegründer des Forschungszentrums "Ethik in Antike und Christentum" (e/αc) und der Zeitschrift "Journal for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity" (JEAC); Research Associate im Departement of Old and New Testament Studies an der University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Südafrika.

Geboren 1975; 2009 Promotion an der University of Edinburgh; 2016 Habilitation an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Associate Professor für Neues Testament am Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.