The 'Q source' that served as a source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke represents a double connecting link: on the one hand, the text needs to be situated between early Judaism and the beginnings of the Jesus movement - a document that focuses less on 'Christian' expectations than on eschatological hopes for salvation among Jewish disciples of Jesus. On the other hand, the text also serves as a bridge between the historical Jesus and later Christianity and provides insights into the early Jesus movement with a glimpse of archaic forms of Christology and ecclesiology. In addition to issues of reconstruction of the text, which is