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The redaction of the sayings in Q blurred the border between the past of the historical Jesus and the future beyond his death. The death and resurrection of Jesus were simply neglected and Jesus was presented as still speaking in the present, as the voice of divine wisdom eternal—just as biblical and Jewish wisdom circles had presented patriarchs, prophets and other wise persons as incorporations of wisdom, God’s consort.
As far as I can see in the Israelite-Jewish history, followed by Christian example to this day, there has never been nor is there a group claiming orthodoxy or orthopraxy that has not been initially a minority group and opinion, denounced and often even persecuted as being of false and heretical teaching and practice.
