Q: the Lost Gospel
Q THE LOST GOSPEL BURTON L MACK ELEMENT 1993 229.8
B. Mack is Professor of New testament at the Claremont School of Theology, California. James Robinson Claremont will complete final Q work.
257 Christian Gospel is a martyrology Myth.
245 Jesus was much more like a Cynic-teacher than either a Christ-saviour or a messiah with a program for the reformation of second-temple Jewish society and religion.
The early followers of Jesus did not think of him as the Messiah or Christ. Neither did they believe that he was the Son of God, nor that his death was a divine, tragic, or saving event. They were simply 'Jesus people' and the narrative gospels as we know them are the result of early Christian myth making.
4 They were not Christians. They did not think of Jesus as a Messiah or the Christ. they did not take his teachings as an indictment of Judaism. They did not imagine that he had been raised from the dead to rule over a transformed world.
They did not gather to worship in his name, honour him as a god, or cultivate his memory through hymns, prayers and rituals.
They did not form a cult of the Christ as emerged among the Christian communities familiar to the readers of the letters of Paul.
5 He was not a Jewish Messiah reforming the religion of Judaism. There was no mission to the Jews or Gentiles.
Preoccupation with Jesus' historicity is a cop out or an evasion of the radical challenges of the social teachings of Jesus.
185 Jesus' teaching gets to the heart of what the law of Moses intended.
The Q Document J H Roberts J Cape 1965
33 invented by German biblical historians in 1800s. A reconstruction of a hypothetical source.
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