A Narrative Theology of the New Testament

Exploring the Metanarrative of Exile and Restoration

by Timo Eskola

Extent: 477 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subject: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Series volume number: 350

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2015)

ISBN: 9783161540127

6.57 x 9.13 inches

Price: $175.00

On back order

Add to cart -
back order

Synopsis
Contributing Authors
Reviews

Focusing on the metanarrative of exile and restoration Timo Eskola claims that a post-liberal, narrative New Testament theology is both consistent and explanative. Combining a post-New Quest perspective on Jesus with an eschatological reading of Paul, the author states that Jesus’ temple criticism aims at restoration eschatology. Jesus starts a priestly community that expects God’s jubilee to begin with Jesus’ work, and proceed with the preaching of the new gospel. The reception of this message in the post-Easter church results in resurrection Christology that proclaims Jesus’ Davidic kingship on God’s throne of glory. Both Paul and Jewish Christian teachers later present Christ’s community as a new temple where believers serve the Lord as priests of the new covenant. Furthermore, restoration eschatology provides a new basis for understanding Paul’s contrast with the words of the law, and his teaching of justification.

By (author) Timo Eskola

"A Narrative Theology of the New Testament has the potential to generate helpful and meaningful conversations not only about the temple motif and the exile and restoration eschatology but also about narrative methodology, intertextuality, the theological content and formation of Jesus's teaching and message, its relation to the Old Testament and Second Temple writings, and its appropriation by the early Christian theologians." --Abson Joseph, Indiana Wesleyan University, Review of Biblical Literature 8.3.2017
—

Other Titles in this Series

The Diet of John the Baptist

Locusts and Wild Honey in Synoptic and Patristic Interpretation

Volume 176

by James A. Kelhoffer

Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament

Studien zur urchristlichen Theologiegeschichte und zur Entstehung des neutestamentlichen Kanons

Volume 204

by Jens Schroter

Between Gospel and Election

Explorations in the Interpretation of Romans 9-11

Volume 257

edited by Frank Schleritt, J. Ross Wagner and Florian Wilk

Christian Body, Christian Self

Concepts of Early Christian Personhood

Volume 284

contributor Robert S. Kinney and edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson

Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment

Volume 312

by Margaret H. Williams

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

Volume 327

by John Granger Cook

Die Nichtigkeit des Menschen und die Ubermacht Gottes

Studien zur Gottes- und Selbsterkenntnis bei Paulus, Philo und in der Stoa

Volume 377

by Gudrun Holtz

Der Hochste

Studien zur hellenistischen Religionsgeschichte und zum biblischen Gottesglauben

Volume 330

by Reinhard Feldmeier

Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity

Their Origin, Collection, and Meaning

Edited by Jens Schröter Edited by Tobias Nicklas

Christology, Soteriology, and Ethics in John and Hebrews

Collected Essays

Volume 478

by William R. G. Loader

Die Johannesapokalypse

Geschichte - Theologie - Rezeption

Volume 508

edited by Michael Sommer, Uta Poplutz and Christina Hoegen-Rohls

Übergemeindliche Verbindungen in den Briefen der paulinischen Mission

Vorkommen, Bedeutung, Funktion und Plausibilität

By (author) Christoph W. Stenschke

Ethische Orientierung im Markusevangelium

Studien im Gedenken an Otto Merk (1933-2021)

Edited by Michael Labahn Edited by Martin Meiser

Herodian Judaism and New Testament Study

Volume 193

by William Horbury

Identity Formation in the New Testament

Volume 227

edited by Bengt Holmberg and Mikael Winninge

Essays on John and Hebrews

Volume 264

by Harold W. Attridge

Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos

Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftsammlung

Volume 297

edited by Enno E. Popkes and Gregor Wurst

Anthropologie und Ethik im Frühjudentum und im Neuen Testament

Wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen. Internationales Symposium in Verbindung mit dem Projekt Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT) 17.-20. Mai 2012, Heidelberg

Edited by Matthias Konradt Edited by Esther Schläpfer

Jesus und die Evangelien

Kleine Schriften V

Edited by Claus-Jürgen Thornton By (author) Martin Hengel

Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality

Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. Collected Essays, Volume 1

Volume 393

by Margaret M. Mitchell

Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries

Volume 418

by Peter J. Tomson

Exegesis and History of Reception

Reading the New Testament Today with the Readers of the Past

Volume 455

by Regis Burnet

New Testament Investigations

A Diachronic Perspective

Volume 487

by Chrys C. Caragounis

Freigelassene der Schöpfung

Religiöse und rationale Motive in der biblischen Ethik

By (author) Gerd Theißen

Religiöse Erfahrung in Korinth

Paulus und die frühchristliche Bewegung im Kontext ihrer griechisch-römischen Erfahrungswelt

By (author) Andreas-Christian Heidel

Expressions of the Johannine Kerygma in John 2:23-5:18

Historical, Literary, and Theological Readings from the Colloquium Ioanneum 2017 in Jerusalem

Edited by Jörg Frey Edited by R. Alan Culpepper

Studien zur Theologie, Sprache und Umwelt des Neuen Testaments

Volume 107

Edited by Dieter Sänger By (author) Christoph Burchard

Studien zum Corpus Iohanneum

By (author) Hartwig Thyen

Coping with Prejudice

1 Peter in Social-Psychological Perspective

Volume 244

by Paul A. Holloway

Infancy Gospels

Stories and Identities

Volume 281

edited by Benjamin Bertho, Claire Clivaz, Andreas Dettwiler, Luc Devillers and Enrico Norelli

Similar Books

Apocalyptic Violence and Socio-Political Imaginaries from Antiquity to the Present

Volume 1

Edited by A.T. Valdez Edited by F. Flannery Edited by J. Punt

Atonement in the Trinitarian Theology of Augustine, Calvin, and Turretin

Volume 89

By (author) Sungkyu Joo

Christian Paschal Tables and Their Lunar Cycles from Anatolius to Bede

Volume 65

By (author) Daniel Mc Carthy

Commentary on the Epistles of Saint Paul

Part I: Romans

Volume 17

By (author) Benjamin Wheaton Original author Haimo of Auxerre

Commentary on the Song of Songs

Volume 20

By (author) Carol Neel Original author Rupert of Deutz

Cyril of Alexandria’s Christological Exegesis

Explorations of Partitive Exegesis in the Dialogues on the Trinity

Volume 70

By (author) Shawn Wilhite

Early Christianity in Civic Space

Volume 343

Edited by J.S. Kloppenborg

Luke and the Law

A Defence of Christian Law-Observance

By (author) Jason Wendel

Mulier taceat

A Study of 1 Corinthians 14:34–35

By (author) Aļesja Lavrinoviča

Reformed Covenantal Eudaimonism

Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635–1711) on Highest Good, Virtue, and Law

Volume 87

By (author) Guochao (Jason) Zhao

Secretaries in Ancient Letter Writing

Influences on the Composition of New Testament Epistles

By (author) Travis B Williams

The Biblical Tale of Judah and Tamar in Fourteenth-Century Iran

A Judeo-Persian Versified Account by Shāhīn with Scholarly Edition, Annotated Translation and Persian Transliteration

Volume 94, 951

By (author) Julia Rubanovich

The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought

Critical Essays

by Jason Kalman

The Resurrection Effect

Transforming Christian Life and Thought

By (author) Anthony J. Kelly

The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life

A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa

By (author) Romulus D. Stefanut

Themes, Lexemes, and “Mnemes”

Composite Allusions in the Gospel of John and Other Jewish Literature

By (author) Samuel L. Voo

De Moïse à Jésus: une messianité en discussion

Une interprétation de Jean 6 à partir de la section narrative (vv. 1-25a)

Volume 244

By (author) P.C.F. Ateba Abamba

Diakonie biblisch II

Frühjüdische, neutestamentliche und frühchristliche Perspektiven

Volume 199

Edited by Klaus Scholtissek Edited by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

Die Authentifizierung der Vergangenheit

Literarische Geschichtsdarstellung im Johannesevangelium

By (author) Susanne Luther

Die Sprache der Psalmen

Skizzierung eines lyrischen Prototyps der hebräischen Psalmen mithilfe von gattungs- und lyriktheoretischen Ansätzen

Volume 440

By (author) Tina Weidemann

Jeremia im Spiegel des Buches

By (author) Uwe Becker

L’argent dans l’évangile de Luc

Symbole ou idole

Volume 54

By (author) J.B. Mavungu Khoto

Makrothymia im Neuen Testament

Semantik und Ethik einer vergessenen ethischen Norm. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Band XV

By (author) Kerstin Reussner

Parola di Dio, di uomo e di Re

L'assoluta verità della Bibbia nella dottrina cattolica di Bacchisio Raimondo Motzo

By (author) Paolo Maninchedda

A Prophet to the Nations

Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Jeremiah 46–51

Contributions by Gad Barnea Contributions by Alexa Bartelmus Contributions by Helge Bezold Contributions by Piotr…

Amos

translated by David E. Orton

Aspects of Soteriology in John and Paul

Edited by Jörg Frey Edited by Jan G. van der Watt Edited by Joseph Verheyden

Benefaction in Galatians

Volume 627

by David Wyman

Breaking New Ground in John

Imagery, Parables, Characters, Christology, and Ethics in the Fourth Gospel

Volume 531

Edited by Dieter T. Roth By (author) Ruben Zimmermann

But the Wise Shall Understand

Reuse of Prophecies, Chronotope, and Merging of Eschatological Horizons in Daniel 10-12

by Felipe A. Masotti

Creation Concepts and Creation Care

Perspectives from Early Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics XVII

Edited by Ruben Zimmermann Edited by Zacharias Shoukry Edited by Mirjam Jekel