The ‘Galilean Q Community’ and the Orientalist Legacy in 2DH Scholarship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21447211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Kirk (0009-0002-8307-6635, James Madison University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-232 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of the New Testament (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-064X • E-ISSN: 1745-5294 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0142064x231209006 |
| OpenAlex | W4388225013 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Contemporary Q scholarship imagines the existence of a ‘Galilean Q Community’ furnished with a simple religious piety standing over against Judean/Jerusalem-centered Judaism with its narrow ethnic particularism, its cult ritualism, and its scribal legalism. The ‘Galilean Q community’ plays the same role vis-à-vis Judean Judaism in the imaginary of contemporary Q scholarship that Sufi Islam does in past and present western Orientalist discourses on Islam: in G. A. Lipton’s words, as embodying ‘a type of philosophical Protestantism freed from all outward prescriptions of religious law’, as an ‘Oriental version of a Kantian universal faith’ over against Islamic orthodoxy, which is Semitic, legalistic, obsessed with Sharia, dogmatic, ritualistic, intolerant, coercive, and politicized. This essay explores the roots of this Orientalist paradigm in nineteenth-century Synoptic source criticism and its continued influence in circles of 2DH scholarship
Faith · Islam · Judaism · Orientalism · Piety · Political science · Protestantism · Scholarship · Secularity · Sociology · Theology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Highly cited | No |
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