Biblica_1:Layout 1 21-11-2011 12:59 Pagina 404 404 SIMON J. JOSEPH 1. The Wisdom Traditions Does Q contain a “Wisdom Christology” 52? Is the Jesus of Q an “incarnation” of Wisdom? Jesus was certainly regarded as a “teacher of wisdom”, and there are places in Q where Jesus is described in terms reminiscent of the description (and speech) of Wisdom in other Early Jewish texts. In Q 9,58, the “son of man” has nowhere to lay his head. Similarly, in 1 Enoch 42,1-2, “Wisdom could not find a place in which she could dwell”. In Sirach 24,6-7, Wisdom is also portrayed as seeking to find a home in Israel. Interestingly, the Par- abolic “son of man” has a special relationship with Wisdom, for “in him dwells the spirit of Wisdom” (1 En 49:3) 53. In Q 7,32-35, Jesus likens “this generation” to those “in the marketplace” who would not pay attention to the fluting or crying of children, although “Wis- dom” was “justified/vindicated” by her “children.” In Proverbs 1:24- 28, Wisdom calls out in the street and raises her voice in the public squares, but people do not pay heed to her call (Matt 11,29-30; Sir 6,19-31; 51,26).In Q 7,35, Jesus and John the Baptist are “Children of Wisdom (Sophia)” . In Q 11,49, Wisdom says that she will “send to them prophets and apostles and some of them they will kill and persecute”. In Q 13,34-35, Wisdom seems to issue a warning of judgment on Jerusalem. Some scholars have seen in Q 10,21 evidence that Q’s Jesus speaks as Wisdom/Sophia 54. Q, however, never explicitly identifies Jesus with or as Wisdom. Jesus is Wisdom’s messenger and “child” in Q. Jesus mediates revelation between humanity and God, but it is the author of Matthew, not Q, who makes the theological “leap” in identifying Jesus as Wisdom 55. Early Christians ascribed to Jesus 52 W.A. BEARDSLEE, “The Wisdom Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels” JAAR 35 (1967) 231-240; J.S. KLOPPENBORG, “Wisdom Christology in Q”, Laval théologique et philosophique 34 (1978) 129-147; A. D. JACOBSON, “Wisdom Christology in Q” (Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School 1978.) 53 HOFFMANN, Studien, 181; R.G. HAMERTON-KELLY, Pre-Existence, Wisdom and the Son of Man (SNTSMS 21; Cambridge 1973) 29; PIPER, Wisdom, 167; JACOBSON, First Gospel, 136; TUCKETT, Q, 181-182. 54 E. NORDEN, Agnostos Theos (Leipzig-Berlin 1913) 277-308, 394-396; T. ARVEDSON, Das Mysterium Christi (Uppsala/Leipzig, 1937) 211. 55 M.J. SUGGS, Wisdom, Christology, and Law in Matthew’s Gospel (Cambridge 1970) 19, 28, 96; LÜHRMANN, Redaktion, 99; HOFFMANN, Studien, 137; HAMERTON-KELLY, Pre-existence, 36; U. WILCKENS, Weisheit und Torheit (Tübingen 1959) 198; J.D.G. DUNN, Christology in the Making (London 1980) 197.