Recently reconstructed by scholars Q is one of the New Testament's earliest source documents.
Arguing that Q's participation in the apocalyptic worldview of late Second Temple Judaism has
greater consequences for its compositional history than previously recognized Olegs Andrejevs
performs a new literary-critical narrative and philological analysis of a number of Q
passages supplementing it with recent advances made in the study of Jewish apocalyptic
literature particularly the Enochic book of Parables and Qumran wisdom documents 4QInstruction
and 1Q 4QMysteries. The end result is an updated stratigraphic model which synthesizes the
insights of several scholars most notably John S. Kloppenborg and Dale C. Allison Jr. and
highlights the feasibility of Q's diachronic study.
