Preface - Introduction - Abbreviations I. Synoptic Problems The Theological Stakes in the Synoptic Problem - Is There a New Paradigm? - On Dispensing with Q? Goodacre on the Relation of Luke to Matthew - Variation in the Reproduction of the Double Tradition and an Oral Q? - Synopses and the Synoptic Problem II. The Sayings Gospel Q Symbolic Eschatology and the Apocalypticism of Q - "Easter Faith" and the Sayings Gospel Q - Nomos and Ethos in Q - City and Wasteland: Narrative World and the Beginning of the Sayings Gospel (Q) - Literary Convention, Self-Evidence, and the Social History of the Q People - The Sayings Gospel Q: Literary and Stratigraphic Problems - A Dog Among the Pigeons: The Cynic Hypothesis as a Theological Problem - Discursive Practices in the Sayings Gospel Q and the Quest of the Historical Jesus III. The Gospel of Mark Egyptian Viticultural Practices and the Citation of Isa 5:1-7 in Mark 12:1-9 - Self-Help or Deus ex Machina in Mark 12.9? - Evocatio Deorum and the Date of Mark - Agrarian Discourse in the Sayings of Jesus IV. Parables Jesus and the Parables of Jesus in Q - The Parable of the Prodigal Son and Deeds of Gift - Pastoralism, Papyri and the Parable of the Shepherd - The Representation of Violence in the Synoptic Parables.