In the third place, Q’s picture is so markedly different from the customary persuasion that both cannot be right. This section of the essay describes Q’s challenge to the prevailing imagination. The Primacy of Wisdom. A majestic study of the literary history of Q was published in 1987. In his book, The Formation of Q, John Kloppenborg was able to identify three major layers in Q’s composition on the basis of literary analyses. The layers broke along the lines of “sapiential