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‘To refer, not to characterise’: A synchronic look at the Son-of-Man logia in the Sayings Gospel Q
Llewellyn Howes
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Llewellyn Howes, Department of New Testament Studies,
University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Abstract
The article intends to address the Son-of-Man problem by applying Delbert Burkett’s ‘question of reference’ to those Son-of-Man logia that appear in the Sayings Gospel Q. A position is taken that recent philological approaches to the Son-of-Man problem have not been overly convincing, successful or helpful. Similarly, attempting to determine the authenticity of individual Son-of-Man sayings has not led to any form of scholarly consensus. In place of these approaches, a synchronic approach is defended and applied to the Son-of-Man sayings in Q, with interesting results.
Keywords
Sayings Gospel Q; historical Jesus; Son of Man; authenticity; apocalytipcism
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Verbum et Ecclesia vol: 35 issue: 1 year: 2014
doi: 10.4102/ve.v35i1.872