The earliest strands of the Jesus tradition, including the one attested by the Sayings Gospel Q, show a keen interest in prayer. In this volume, specialists in Hebrew Bible, early and rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity contribute essays on a broad range of topics relevant to the Q materials on prayer.
 The earliest strands of the Jesus tradition, including the one attested by the Sayings Gospel Q, show a keen interest in prayer. In this volume, specialists in Hebrew Bible, early and rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity contribute essays on a broad range of topics relevant to the Q materials on prayer. Several contributors situate Q in its historical and religious context by relating it to other early Jewish texts and traditions concerning prayer. Others analyse Jesus' instructions on prayer in Q with respect to specific exegetical and interpretive questions, or track the reception of Q's materials on prayer in Matthew and Luke.
Table of contents:
Daniel A. Smith/Christoph Heil: Introduction - 
Irmtraud Fischer: Mehr reden über das Gebet als Beten: Eine Alttestamentlerin liest Gebetstexte in Q - 
Ursula Schattner-Rieser: The Lord's Prayer in the Context of Jewish-Aramaic Prayer Traditions in the Time of Jesus - 
Simon J. Joseph: The Promise of Providence and the Problem of the 
Parables: Revisiting Prayer in the Sayings Gospel Q - 
Karl-Heinrich Ostmeyer: Beten für und gegen Feinde - 
Catherine Hezser: Prayer in the Sayings Source Q and in Early Rabbinic Texts - 
Hildegard Scherer: Gott und die Feinde: Traditionen und neutestamentliche Vernetzung von Q 6,28 - 
Markus Tiwald: Gebet und Gottesreich: Gebetstexte aus Q im Vergleich mit den qumranischen Sabbatopferliedern - 
Michael Labahn: Identitätsstiftung durch Jesu Gebet: Q 10:21-24, Jesus und die Offenbarung an die Unmündigen - 
Giovanni B. Bazzana: Praying to God and the Kingdom: Q's Lord's Prayer in Its Rhetorical and Literary Context - 
John S. Kloppenborg: The Lord's Prayer and Debt Recovery: Insights from Graeco-Egyptian Papyri - 
Thomas Klampfl: Lukas 11,5-8: Freundschaft, Gastfreundschaft und ἀναίδεια - 
Niclas Förster: Die lukanische Rezeption der Gebetstexte in Q im Kontext des frühen Judentums und Christentums - 
Daniel A. Smith: The Influence of Q's Prayer Texts in Matthew