Howes, Llewellyn2013-04-222013-04-222013-03-12Howes, L 2013, ‘“To refer, not to characterise”: a synchronic look at the Son-of-Gospel Q’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1344, 12 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v69i1.13440259-9422 (print)2072-8050 (online)10.4102/hts.v69i1.1344http://hdl.handle.net/2263/21361This article represents a reworked version of aspects from the PhD dissertation (University of Pretoria), entitled ‘The Sayings Gospel Q within the contexts of the third and renewed quests for the historical Jesus: Wisdom and apocalypticism in the first century’, with Prof. Dr Andries G. van Aarde as supervisor.The article intends to address the Son-of-Man problem by applying Delbert Burkett’s ‘question of reference’ to those Son-of-Man logia that appear in the Sayings Gospel Q. A position is taken that recent philological approaches to the Son-of-Man problem have not been overly convincing, successful or helpful. Similarly, attempting to determine the authenticity of individual Son-of-Man sayings has not led to any form of scholarly consensus. In place of these approaches, a synchronic approach is defended and applied to the Son-of-Man sayings in Q, with interesting results.12 p.PDFen© 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.Philological studiesSon-of-Man sayingsBible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.Article