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SOCIO-MYTHIC INVENTION, GRAECO-ROMAN SCHOOLS, AND THE SAYINGS GOSPEL Q WILLI BRAUN 1. In production The recent record of scholarship on the early Christian Sayings Gos- pel Q has brought us to the point where the view of Q as both product of as well as reflective and productive of deliberate, thought- ful socio-mythic invention' by a particular group no longer needs to be argued. What E. P. Thompson said of the making of the English working class applies to Q-and any other early Christian group-as well: it "did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making" (Thompson 1963: 9). Burton Mack rightly speaks of Q (both as text and social entity) as a "precious" exemplar of "an entire history of an early 'Christian' community-in-the-making" (1995: 49). This view, amply warranted by recent literary and social studies of Q stands as a reasonable presupposition that not only permits but also requires a move toward a new set of questions that would enable us to qualify and differentiate socio-mythic inventions and processes in antiquity at "local" (Thomas, Q, etc.) sites by a nec- essarily complex toggling procedure: (a) "fitting" specific socio-mythic formations
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1999
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