The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus

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Marcus J. Borg, Mark Powelson, Ray Riegert
Ulysses Press, 1996 - Religion - 128 pages
The Lost Gospel Q - written by Jesus' contemporaries and preserving his original words - brings you closer to the historical figure of Jesus than ever before. A sacred handbook for his earliest followers, The Last Gospel Q is a window into the world of ancient Christianity. It contains the original Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer, as well as parables, aphorisms, and Jesus' guidance on living a simple and compassionate life. Lost for two thousand years, no copy of this Gospel has ever been found. But for the past one hundred and fifty years, historians and theologians around the world have been rediscovering the fragments. Working like archaeologists, they have dug through the many layers of the New Testament to finally uncover the original Gospel upon which key elements of the Bible are based.

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Contents

Introduction
9
A Note on the Translation
120
About the Editors
128
Copyright

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Marcus J. Borg was born on March 11, 1942 in Minnesota. He majored in philosophy and political science at Concordia College. He did graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and at Oxford University. He taught at various Midwest universities before joining the faculty at Oregon State University in 1979. He taught religion there until his retirement in 2007. During his lifetime, he wrote or co-wrote 21 books including Jesus: A New Vision, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions with N. T. Wright, and Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most. He died after a prolonged illness on January 21, 2015 at the age of 72.

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