Steven R. Johnson

Jesus in Q

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“So's work provides a challenging read for Q scholars and anyone interested in the development of Sabbath traditions and early Jesus movements.”

Parabolic Figures or Narrative Fictions?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This important collection of essays shows Hedrick at his critical and analytical best. He relentlessly challenges the reader to probe within the story, reading parables on their own merits, as narratives that reflect and speak to the early first-century agrarian world of Palestine. Striving to recover the stories as Jesus himself may have told them, Hedrick strips away the theological and evangelistic frames and interpretations that go beyond the language of the stories themselves. The results are engaging stories of Jesus that are often left open-ended, with complications begging for resolution.”