By Daniel A. Smith

Q 13:34-35, the Jerusalem Logion, aligns the rejection of the speaker through Jerusalem either with the abandonment of Jerusalem's residence and with the longer term invisibility and go back of the speaker: 'You won't see me till you are saying, Blessed is the arrival One within the identify of the Lord' (13:35b). The twist of fate of now not seeing language with a connection with a destiny coming is such as the relationship, in Jewish literature particularly, among the belief and eschatological functionality. The e-book proposes that this connection with Jesus' assumption is a clue to how Q conceives of the autopsy vindication of Jesus, on the grounds that a number of Q sayings presuppose a data of Jesus' demise. In help of this, the ebook argues that during Hellenistic Jewish writings assumption used to be now not continually thought of to be an get away from loss of life (as within the biblical cases of Enoch and Elijah), yet may perhaps take place at or after demise, as used to be extra truly the case in Greek notion. the sort of technique of vindication is important for Q since it evidences a trust in Jesus' ongoing life and destiny go back because the Son of guy, and since resurrection even though a characteristic of Q's eschatology isn't separately utilized to Jesus. an identical view is presupposed by means of the pre-Markan empty tomb culture, which describes the disappearance of Jesus' physique yet narrates neither the resurrection itself nor an visual appeal of the risen Jesus. The booklet additionally attracts out implications of the thesis for where of the Sayings Gospel Q in the early Christian hobbies, really vis-vis the vindication of Jesus.