Download or read book Galilean Upstarts written by Leif E. Vaage and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Jesus' first followers in Palestine, those obscure upstarts responsible for gospel traditions that resulted from developments at the eastern end of the Mediterranean basin in the cradle of Syrian Christianity. Vaage sketches a social profile of these followers of Jesus, based on the literary stratum biblical scholars have designated as "Q", the other source text used by Matthew and Luke in the composition of the gospels.