Abbreviations viiIntroduction Richard A. Horsley 1Oral Performance and Popular Tradition in QEssaysThe Verbal Art in Q and Thomas A Question of Epistemology Werner H. Kelber 25Performance and Tradition: The Covenant Speech in Q Richard A. Horsley 43Jesus' "Covenantal Discourse" on the Plain (Luke 6:12-7:17) as Oral Performance: Pointers to "Q" as Multiple Oral Performance Jonathan A. Draper 71ResponsesResponse to Kelber, Horsley, and Draper Joanna Dewey 101Oral Performance in Q: Epistemology, Political Conflict, and Contextual Register Vernon K. Robbins 109The Riddle of Q: Oral Ancestor, Textual Precedent, or Ideological Creation? John Miles Foley 123Moral Economy and Hidden Transcript: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to QEssaysMoral Economy and Renewal Movement in Q Richard A. Horsley 143The Jesus Movement in the Villages of Roman Galilee: Archaeology, Q, and Modern Anthropological Theory Milton Moreland 159Going Public with the Hidden Transcript in Q 11: Beelzebul Accusation and the Woes Alan Kirk 181Communities Resisting Fragmentation: Q and the Work of James C. Scott Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre 193ResponseThe Work of James C. Scott and Q: A Response William R. Herzog II 211Bibliography 217