03_Biblica_Foster_Layout 1 08/07/13 12:56 Pagina 372 03_B 372 PAUL FOSTER ing with a Greek-speaking Jewish Christian community based in Palestine. Further, he noted connections with prophetic forms of speech drawn from Jewish circles 18. Alongside this, another strand of Q scholarship was emerging almost simultaneously, which saw the mission of followers of Jesus as being focused on Israel. Thus Hoffmann saw a relationship be- tween the theological orientation of Q and the type of Israel-centric prophetism related to the call for renewal in the preaching of John the Baptist. The necessity of a double geographic origin for the ori- gin of Q became a less popular theory, even though certain scholars maintained that there were discrete stages in the literary formation of the document. Consequently a growing consensus emerged that located Q somewhere in Palestine (but not usually Jerusalem) 19, or Galilee, or southern Syria 20. However, Kloppenborg has pre- sented the most comprehensive exposition of the case for a Galilean location of the Q community 21. Kloppenborg argues that although there is a shift in the formal characteristics of the collection with the addition and redaction of the Q2 layer this does not necessitate a change in audience 22. Thus the emphasis in describing “social location” falls more upon the ideolog- ical and religious beliefs and values of both author and audience than on the questions of geographical locale. It is noted that the genre and rhetoric of the two initial layers of Q are not reflective of the highest level of professional scribalism. Consequently, the “framers of Q are scribes, to be sure, but their interests and inclinations do not coincide with the scribes and literati of Jerusalem” 23. Moreover, Kloppenborg disputes the significance that some have attributed to the notion of itinerancy that has at times been ascribed to Q 24. Also direct links SCHULZ, Q, die Spruchquelle der Evangelisten, 57, 177. 18 P. HOFFMANN, Studien zur Theologie der Logienquelle (Münster 1972) 19 332, 333. C.M. TUCKETT, Q and the History of Early Christianity (Edinburgh 20 1996) 102-103. KLOPPENBORG, Excavating Q, esp. 171-175, 255-261. 21 J.S. KLOPPENBORG, The Formation of Q. Trajectories in Ancient Wis- 22 dom Collections (Philadelphia, PA 1987). KLOPPENBORG, Excavating Q, 210. 23 In particular see G. THEISSEN, Sociology of Early Palestinian Christi- 24 anity (trans. J. Bowden) (Philadelphia, PA 1978). © Gregorian Biblical Press 2013 - Tutti i diritti riservati