Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43797-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

In Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Matthew V. Novenson brings together thirteen state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on the various ways ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical writers conceive of God, Christ, Wisdom, the demiurge, angels, foreign gods, and other divine beings. In particular, the book revisits the “early high Christology” debates of the 1990s, identifying the lasting contributions thereof as well as the lingering difficulties and new, emerging questions from the last thirty years of research. The essays in this book probe the much-touted but under-theorized distinctions between monotheism and polytheism, Judaism and Hellenism, Christianity and paganism. They show how what we call monotheism and Christology fit within the Greco-Roman world of which they are part.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Novenson, Matthew V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Translations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Matthew V. Novenson

2 The New religionsgeschichtliche Schule at Thirty: Observations by a Participant

Larry W. Hurtado

3 The Universal Polytheism and the Case of the Jews

Matthew V. Novenson

4 The Divine Name as a Characteristic of Divine Identity in Second-Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

Charles A. Gieschen

5 Jesus’ Unique Relationship with YHWH in Biblical Exegesis: A Response to Recent Objections

David B. Capes

6 God and Glory and Paul, Again: Divine Identity and Community Formation in the Early Jesus Movement

Carey C. Newman

7 Confessing the Cosmic Christ (1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15–20)

Richard Bauckham

8 One God, One Lord in the Epistle of James

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

9 Between Jewish Monotheism and Proto-Trinitarian Relations: The Making and Character of Johannine Christology

Jörg Frey

10 God and Christ in the Earlier Martyr Acts

Jan N. Bremmer

11 Gnosis and the Tragedies of Wisdom: Sophia’s Story

Pheme Perkins

12 The One God Is No Simple Matter

April D. DeConick

13 How High Can Early High Christology Be?

Paula Fredriksen

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew V. Novenson, PhD (2010), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author, most recently, of The Grammar of Messianism (OUP, 2017).

Contributors are Richard Bauckham, Jan N. Bremmer, David B. Capes, April D. DeConick, Paula Fredriksen, Jörg Frey, Charles A. Gieschen, Larry W. Hurtado, Carey C. Newman, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Matthew V. Novenson, Pheme Perkins.