Biblica_1:Layout 1 21-11-2011 12:59 Pagina 405 405 “SEEK HIS KINGDOM” the role and function of Wisdom in the sapiential literature. Wisdom language was an appropriate way to identify and characterize Jesus as a teacher of revealed truths who mediated divine knowledge, wisdom, grace, and power. For example, Q 10,22 makes an exclu- sive claim that “no one knows the Son except the Father nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and to whomever the Son chooses to reveal him”. This is language strikingly reminiscent, even parallel to that used to describe Wisdom — as “hidden from man but known to God” 56. Q’s focus on Jesus as the “Son of God” is absolute and exclusive. While some scholars have sought the ori- gin of this title in Hellenistic culture 57, or in Jesus’ use of ἀββά, early Jewish apocalyptic texts from Qumran contain several exam- ples of eschatological and royal figures being identified as “Son of God”. For example, 4Q246 describes a figure as the “Son of God” and the “Son of the Most High”. In Wisdom literature, the wise man is a “son of God” (Wis 2,13.18; Sir 4,11). In Q, the “Son” has spe- cial knowledge of the “Father”. The focus in Q is on Jesus as “Son” (υἱός) in relation to God as “Father” (πατήρ/ἀββά). 2. The Son of Man Traditions Jesus is not a “traditional messianic” figure in Q. Q never uses Χριστός. Jesus is the “Son of God”, the “son of man”, the “child of Wisdom”, the “Coming One”, and “Master/Lord”, but never Χριστός. So while there is indeed a “Wisdom” component in Q and a nexus be- tween Q, Wisdom, and Christology, Q does not explicitly identify Jesus with Wisdom, but does explicitly identify him as the “Son of God”. In fact, Jesus is exalted above all others, including John, who is himself greater than all those born “among women’s offspring”. Is Q’s exalted portrayal of Jesus as “Son of God” derived from his iden- tification as “son of man”? This does not seem likely. The identifica- tion of Jesus as son of man is based on post-Easter reflection on the exaltation of Jesus. Since the “one like a son of man” in Daniel 7,13 is a heavenly being and the “son of man” in the Parables is also a heavenly judge, it is reasonable to conclude that the expression was transferred to Jesus in Q. The identification of Jesus as the “son of man” created a distinctive new identity for Jesus as a heavenly judge representative of a rejected and persecuted group of the righteous. 56 KLOPPENBORG, “Wisdom Christology”, 144. 57 SCHULZ, Spruchquelle, 223; LÜHRMANN, Redaktion, 66.