Portraits of Jesus
Studies in Christology
edited by Susan E. Myers
The authors of this collection of essays focus on understandings of Jesus in various early Christian writings. Notable are several texts that examine the presentation of Jesus in the Gospels of John and Mark, as well as in the Book of Hebrews and in the letters of Paul. Other early Christian literature is represented as well, from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas to various Apocryphal Acts of Apostles and liturgical or other prayer texts, while some essays address a range of ancient literature, Christian and non-Christian. The authors of these essays examine the ways in which ancient writers addressed the significance of Jesus, as well as the their sources, dialogue partners, and critics in a variety of perspectives and methods. Contributors:Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll, Paul F. Bradshaw, Dylan M. Burns, Joshua Ezra Burns, Stephen J. Davis, Joshua D. Garroway, Judith M. Gundry, Daniel C. Harlow, Jeremy F. Hultin, Timothy Luckritz Marquis, Candida R. Moss, Susan E. Myers, George L. Parsenios, Michael Peppard, Richard I. Pervo, Bryan D. Spinks, Gregory E. Sterling, Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., Emma Wasserman
Susan E. Myers: IntroductionPart I: Portraits of Jesus in Gospel Literature George L. Parsenios: A Sententious Silence: First Thoughts on the Fourth Gospel and the Ardens Style - Joshua Ezra Burns: Like Father, Like Son: An Example of Jewish Humor in the Gospel of John - Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll: The Scripturally Complex Presentation of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark - Jeremy F. Hultin: Disobeying Jesus: A Puzzling Element in the Messianic Secret Motifs - Timothy Luckritz Marquis: Crucifixion, State of Emergency, and the Proximate Marginality of Christ's Kingship - Stephen J. Davis: Bird Watching in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: From Child's Play to Rituals of Divine DiscernmentPart II: Portraits of Jesus in Paul Gregory E. Sterling: The Image of God: Becoming Like God in Philo, Paul, and Early Christianity - Judith M. Gundry: Jesus-Tradition and Paul's Opinion About the Widow Remaining as a Widow (1 Cor 7:40) - Emma Wasserman: An Idol is Nothing in the World (1 Cor 8:4): The Metaphysical Contradictions of 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1 in the Context of Jewish Idolatry Polemics - Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.: The Use of Christological Traditions in Paul: The Case of Rom 3:21-26Part III: Portraits of Jesus in Prayer and Liturgy Paul F. Bradshaw: The Status of Jesus in Early Christian Prayer Texts - Susan E. Myers: Praying to Jesus in the Acts of Thomas - Bryan D. Spinks: Handing on Tradition: Some Themes and Images in the Maronite Baptismal OrdoPart IV: Portraits of Jesus in Other Early Christian Literature Joshua D. Garroway: A New Sort of Priest for a New Sort of People: Hebrews as an Interpretation of Romans - Candida R. Moss: Standing at the Foot of the Staircase: Christology and Narrative Structure in the Prologue to Hebrews (Heb 1:1-4) - Daniel C. Harlow: Born of Fornication: The Jewish Charge of Jesus' Illegitimacy in John, Celsus, and Origen - Richard I. Pervo: Shepherd of the Lamb: Paul as a Christ-Figure in the Acts of Paul - Dylan M. Burns: Jesus' Reincarnations Revisited in Jewish Christianity, Sethian Gnosticism, and Mani - Michael Peppard: Archived Portraits of Jesus: Unorthodox Christological Images from John and Athanasius
- Edited by Susan E Myers
Other Titles in this Series
The Mission of Jesus
Second Nordic Symposium on the Historical Jesus, Lund, 7-10 October 2012
Volume 391
Constructing a New Covenant
Discursive Strategies in the Damascus Document and Second Corinthians
Volume 233
La reconfiguration epistemique du lecteur de Marc
Perspectives synchroniques et diachroniques sur le recit du demoniaque de Gerasa (Mc 5.1-20) mis en resonance avec les jeunes hommes de 14.51-52 et 16.1-8
Volume 569
Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion
Reshaping Devotion for John's Graeco-Roman Audience
Volume 528
Proclaiming the Judge of the Living and the Dead
The Christological Significance of Judgement in Acts 10 and 17
Volume 494
Reconsidering the Relationship between Biblical and Systematic Theology in the New Testament
Essays by Theologians and New Testament Scholars
Volume 369
Pistis and the Righteous One
A Study of Romans 1:17 against the Background of Scripture and Second Temple Jewish Literature
Volume 235
The Destroyer and the Lamb
The Relationship between Angelomorphic and Lamb Christology in the Book of Revelation
Volume 203
The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life
A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa
Peacemaking through Blood in Colossians
An Analysis of the Imagery in Its Graeco-Roman and Jewish Context
Volume 615
Jesus as the Way to the Father in the Gospel of John
A Study of the Way Motif and John 14,6 in Its Context
Volume 584
Creation and Christ
An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Volume 527
The High Priest and the Temple
Metaphorical Depictions of Jesus in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch
Volume 473
Ein Jesusbild im Horizont des Nationalsozialismus
Studien zum Neuen Testament des 'Instituts zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des judischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben'
Volume 440
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