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Regarding the Jesus Seminar, N.T. Wright writes in Jesus and the Victory of God:

Great reliance has been placed on the work of John Kloppenborg, who has painstakingly analysed the Q material into its supposed three stages of composition.

This is prima facie perplexing to me. How do scholars like Kloppenborg purport to work out stages of composition of a document without any manuscripts? (Not a rhetorical question.)

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My impression is that a lot of scholars share your skepticism. It's hard enough to solidly identify compositional history in documents that we actually have. – Noah Snyder Mar 11 at 1:17

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