Kloppenborg, John S., 1951-2015-09-282015-09-282010-11Kloppenborg, J.S., 2010, ‘Studying the judgement sayings in Q’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 66(1), Art. #990, 2 pages. DOI: 10.4102/hts.v66i1.990.0259-9422 (print)2072-8050 (online)10.4102/hts.v66i1.990http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50059Book review : The historical Jesus and the final judgment sayings in Q / Brian H. Gregg. Publisher : Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006, pp. xiv, 346.Eschatology, the Sayings Gospel Q and the historical Jesus have made for a confusing mixture. Most of the recent specialist studies of the composition and thought of the Sayings Gospel, regardless of what they conclude about Q’s eschatology, have quite self-consciously been about Q and not the historical Jesus. Yet for reasons that remain obscure, many of those who use Q studies or wish to detract from Q studies conclude that they really are about Jesus, thus concluding, rather bizarrely, that the stratigraphic studies of Q that stress the sapiential genre of its formative elements are in fact covert claims that the historical Jesus is ‘merely’ a sage. I say ‘bizarre’, as they would not, presumably, confuse Mark’s portrait of Jesus with the historical Jesus.en© 2010. The Authors. Licensee: OpenJournals Publishing. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.Sayings Gospel QJudgement sayingsEschatologyHistorical JesusArticle