Finding the Shards #24
Of critical importance for the study of Q was a reconstruction of the minimal text and some consensus about its composition as a recognizable form of literary activity. Text-critical studies have been produced by Siegfried Schulz (1972), Wolfgang Schenk (1981), Athanasius Polag (1982), and Dieter Zeller (1984). Schulz also provided a synoptic edition of the parallel texts from Matthew and Luke with a German translation. This would have been a great advance, except for one feature. He made the mistake of organizing the material by theme and thus erased both the Matthean and Lukan orders. Polag then offered a reconstruction of Q, published in a study of the sayings by Ivan Havener (1987). And in 1988 John Kloppenborg published an edition of the Q Parallels in Greek that followed the Lukan order and provided enumerated units, an English translation, an apparatus of scholarly judgments on variant readings, parallels per saying from other early Christian literature, and a Greek concordance.