Gospel Images of Jesus Christ in Church Tradition and in Biblical Scholarship

There is one Jesus of history and four varying portraits of Jesus in the gospels. How are New Testament scholars from different confessional backgrounds dealing with this challenge today? The volume contains papers given at an ecumenical conference of “Western” (Protestant and Roman-Catholic) and Orthodox biblical scholars in Minsk (Belarus).

This collection of essays contains the papers given at the Fifth International East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars in Minsk (Belarus). The symposium was a project of the Eastern Europe Liaison Committee of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Main subject matters of the volume are the history and methodological questions of modern Jesus research, approaches to the Jesus of history in ancient and modern Christian exegesis, Jesus as a Jew in ancient and modern exegesis, and the portraits of Jesus in Luke and John. The authors of these papers deal with the parables of Jesus, with his Galilean ministry, with the passion narrative in Mark and with the death of Christ according to Paul’s letters. All topics are discussed from a Western (Protestant and Roman-Catholic) exegetical perspective as well as from an Orthodox point of view. A concluding report recapitulates the group discussions and seminar sessions of the symposium. Contributors: Charalampos Atmatzidis, Reimund Bieringer, Predrag Dragutinovia?, Carl R. Holladay, Christos Karakolis, Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz, Ulrich Luz, Joel Marcus, Vasile Mihoc, Tobias Nicklas, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Marius Reiser, Armand Puig i Tarrech, Sviatoslav Rogalsky, Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni, Konstantinos Th. Zarras

Preface Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: IntroductionI Biblical Scholarship in Russia and Belarus Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk: Church Life and Biblical Scholarship in Belarus. An Opening Lecture - Sviatoslav Rogalsky: A Historical Overview of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Biblical ScholarshipII Papers from the symposium Ulrich Luz: Jesus from a Western Perspective. State of Research. Methodology - Charalampos Atmatzidis: The Historical Jesus: State of Research and Methodological Questions from an Orthodox Perspective - Marius Reiser: Jesus-Research from the Enlightenment until Today - Vasile Mihoc: How Did the Church Fathers Understand the History of Jesus? - Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni: Jesus in the view of Luke - Reimund Bieringer: a because the Father is greater than I (John 14:28). Johannine Christology in Light of the Relationship Between the Father and the Son - Konstantinos Th. Zarras: Beyond Jesus the Jew: Old Visions Meet Modern Challenges - Joel Marcus: Jesus the Jew in Recent Western ScholarshipIII Contributions from the Seminars Armand Puig i Tarrech: Interpreting the Parables of Jesus. A Test Case: The Parable of the lost Sheep - Predrag Dragutinovia?: The Parables: A Theological Approach. Reading Parables in the Context of Today's Orthodox Church - Carl R. Holladay: Jesus and His Followers in Galilee: Albert Schweitzer's Reconstruction - Carl R. Holladay: Jesus' Ministry in Galilee in Matthew 8?10 - Tobias Nicklas: The Crucified Christ and the Silence of God. Thoughts on the Christology of the Gospel of Mark - Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz: Performing the Passion, Embodying Proclamation: The Story of Jesus' Passion in the Pauline Letters?IV Discussion Christos Karakolis: Group Discussion: Summaries and Reflections - Urs von Arx: Notes from the Group Discussion, Preface
Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: Introduction
I Biblical Scholarship in Russia and Belarus
Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk: Church Life and Biblical Scholarship in Belarus. An Opening Lecture - Sviatoslav Rogalsky: A Historical Overview of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Biblical Scholarship
II Papers from the symposium
Ulrich Luz: Jesus from a Western Perspective. State of Research. Methodology - Charalampos Atmatzidis: The Historical Jesus: State of Research and Methodological Questions from an Orthodox Perspective - Marius Reiser: Jesus-Research from the Enlightenment until Today - Vasile Mihoc: How Did the Church Fathers Understand the History of Jesus? - Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni: Jesus in the view of Luke - Reimund Bieringer: "… because the Father is greater than I" (John 14:28). Johannine Christology in Light of the Relationship Between the Father and the Son - Konstantinos Th. Zarras: Beyond Jesus the Jew: Old Visions Meet Modern Challenges - Joel Marcus: Jesus the Jew in Recent Western Scholarship
III Contributions from the Seminars
Armand Puig i Tàrrech: Interpreting the Parables of Jesus. A Test Case: The Parable of the lost Sheep - Predrag Dragutinović: The Parables: A Theological Approach. Reading Parables in the Context of Today's Orthodox Church - Carl R. Holladay: Jesus and His Followers in Galilee: Albert Schweitzer's Reconstruction - Carl R. Holladay: Jesus' Ministry in Galilee in Matthew 8−10 - Tobias Nicklas: The Crucified Christ and the Silence of God. Thoughts on the Christology of the Gospel of Mark - Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz: Performing the Passion, Embodying Proclamation: The Story of Jesus' Passion in the Pauline Letters?
IV Discussion
Christos Karakolis: Group Discussion: Summaries and Reflections - Urs von Arx: Notes from the Group Discussion

Christos Karakolis, Born 1968; 1990 Bachelor in Theology; 1990-96 Doctoral studies at the Universities of Thessaloniki, Regensburg and Tubingen; 1996 ThD; since 2005 Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens.Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Born 1956; 1975-1981 studied Theology at Halle University; 1985 Dr. Theol. Halle; 1986 ordinated as Lutheran Pastor; 1991 Habilitation; since 1997 Professor of New Testament at the Theological Faculty of Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.Sviatoslav Rogalsky, Born 1978; 2003 Doctor of Theology; responsible for the organisation of 5th East-West Symposium in Minsk in 2010; 2011 Secretary of the Academical Council of the Theological Institute of Belarusian State University; 2011 ordained as a deacon of Belarusian Orthodox Church.

• Edited by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr
• Edited by Christos Karakolis
• Edited by Sviatoslav Rogalsky