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Q, the earliest Gospel : an introduction to the original stories and sayings of Jesus / by Kloppenborg, John S., 1951- Westminster John Knox Press, c2008. Edition: 1st ed. Description: x, 170 p. : Illustration Details: ill. ; Dimensions: 22 cm. ISBN: 9780664232221 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0664232221 (pbk. : alk. paper) Contents: What is Q? -- Reconstructing a lost Gospel -- What a difference difference makes -- Q, Thomas, and James -- Appendix: The sayings Gospel Q in English.

This book discusses the use of a Q source for the New Testament. Although this is a debated source, it is widely known.

"Friedman carefully describes the history of textual criticism of the Bible" To understand the connections of the books of the Bible, including the links between historical source, this book explores "Who wrote the Bible?".

Discusses problems of redaction criticism in regard to the source known as Q

Whereas historical study tended to be concerned with the prehistory of the text (oral traditions and written source materials) and with its development through successive redactions, literary study focused on the final form of the text.

The German researchers who pioneered in this work called this lost document "Quelle" which means "source". This is usually abbreviated as "Q." The Gospel of Q remains a hypothetical document. No intact copy has ever been found. No reference to the document in early Christian writings has survived. Its existence is inferred from an analysis of the text of Matthew and Luke. Much of the content of Matthew and Luke were derived from the Gospel of Mark. But there were also many passages which appear to have come from Q. Many theologians and religious historians believe that Q's text can be reconstructed by analyzing passages that Matthew and Luke have in common. If the Gospel of Q exists, it might best be regarded as a reconstructed Gospel. Many believe that it was written much earlier than the four canonical gospels in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament): Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. It may have been the first of the 40 or so Gospels that were written and used by the early Christian movements. The Gospel of Q is different from the canonical gospels in that it does not extensively describe events in the life of Jesus. Rather, it is largely a collection of sayings -- similar to the Gospel of Thomas.

This is a Catholic work dated in 1908. One can see the negotiation of science and faith in the writing. While Kantian terms such as a priori and a sence of evaluating data, there is a space for accepting unquantified data as part of the author's definition of historical criticism.

I think that when we start to talk about what is authentic in the Bible versus what isn't authentic can lead us to call things "false" or untrue when in fact the stories may very well be true and authentic, just not in the modern way of what we deem as true. This is why I found Philip Davies commentary posted by Michael H. quite helpful because it talks about reading the Bible from the perspective of what the writer or scribe was trying to convey to his audience instead of reading from the perspective of trying to figure out for example, if hundreds of thousands of Hebrew people actually lived and survived in the desert for more than forty years.

This is a basic analysis of historical criticism. There is also a basic approach to understanding the process by which historical criticism might be utilized.

This book discusses many of the topics that we are looking at, including source Criticism

Series of essays with a focus on the New Testament, edited by two prominent scholars in postcolonial criticism. In the chapter by Sze-kar Wan, The Letter to the Galatians, he explores the ethnic tension in the letter and the dangers of over-simplification when examining ethnic categories such as Jewish and Gentile. He further discusses how "Roman imperial discourse was ... revised and appropriated for the use of the Jerusalem Jesus-movement." A focus on how empire shapes a minority community and the power dynamics within the community itself. Bibliography could be expanded by examining the work of the individual authors.

Looks promising

This is a very complete source on Canonical Criticism. It is informative for my description and looks like a book worth buying.

section on narrative criticsm. Good discussion on narrative world not being identical to the real world; implied author shaping story world by selecting (and excluding) events.

A GREAT Power Point presentation of Feminist Biblical Criticism

here it is: http://www.gettysburgseminary.org/mhoffman/markexp/hdouts/Feminist%20Criticism.pdf

This is a very nice summary of several SBL papers addressing the issue of historical criticism. Several different views are expressed in a very well framed and concise manner.

Very specific and informative overview of historical-criticism

Very nice struggle with the debate as to whether historical-criticism may or may not be appropriate in Christian scholasticism.