Kingdom of Bureaucracy

The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q

By (author) G.B. Bazzana

Extent: 395 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium

Series volume number: 274

Language: English

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(April 2015)

ISBN: 9789042931787

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The Sayings Gospel Q was composed in the central decades of the first century CE by Galilean villagers who had acquired knowledge of Greek mostly through their involvement with the public administration. The present book analyzes the text of Q in order to rediscover the terminological and ideological traces of the activity of these sub-elite scribes in the Sayings Gospel. Given the bureaucratic positions occupied by the members of this group, the peculiar use of the phrase Basileia tou theou carries a specific significance for its theological political implications. On the basis of Giorgio Agamben’s recent revision of the category of political theology, the attitude of Q on divine kingship is understood as an instance of sub-elite negotiation of social and political positions vis-a-vis the expansion of Roman imperial hegemony in the eastern Mediterranean. In this context the author(s) of Q envisage apocalyptic scenarios in which divine kingship replaces human rulers and native sub-elite bureaucrats can share in the exercise of cosmic government.

By (author) G.B. Bazzana

"This exciting study shows that serious work with wide-ranging implications can be done on Q on the basis of its literary and sociocultural profile-despite its "hypothetical" nature. Q might only be a hypothesis, but Kingdom of Bureaucracy only further attests to what a compelling hypothesis it is." --Sarah E. Rollens, Rhodes College, Review of Biblical Literature 12.16.2016
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