Reading the Gospel of John's Christology as Jewish Messianism

Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34975-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 106, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

The essays in Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs seek to interpret John’s Jesus as part of Second Temple Jewish messianic expectations. The Fourth Gospel is rarely considered part of the world of early Judaism. While many have noted John’s Jewishness, most have not understood John’s Messiah as a Jewish messiah.
The Johannine Jesus, who descends from heaven, is declared the Word made flesh, and claims oneness with the Father, is no less Jewish than other messiahs depicted in early Judaism. John’s Jesus is at home on the spectrum of early Judaism’s royal, prophetic, and divine messiahs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reynolds, Benjamin

Boccaccini, Gabriele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Fundamentaltheologie, Dogmatik, Christologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: An Introduction

Benjamin E. Reynolds

Part 2: John’s Jesus as a Jewish Messiah: Paths Taken and Not Taken

2 The Gospel of John’s Christology as Evidence for Early Jewish Messianic Expectations: Challenges and Possibilities

Benjamin E. Reynolds

3 The Gospel of John as Jewish Messianism: Formative Influences and Neglected Avenues in the History of Scholarship

James F. McGrath

Part 3: John’s Word and Jewish Messianic Interpretation

4 “And The Word Was God”: John’s Christology and Jesus’s Discourse in Jewish Context

Adele Reinhartz

5 Johannine Christology and Prophetic Traditions: The Case of Isaiah

Catrin H. Williams

6 Messianic Exegesis in the Fourth Gospel

Jocelyn McWhirter

Part 4: John’s Royal Messiah

7 Son of God as Anointed One? Johannine Davidic Christology and Second Temple Messianism

Beth M. Stovell

8 Divine Kingship and Jesus’s Identity in Johannine Messianism

Marida Nicolaci

9 David’s Sublation of Moses: A Davidic Explanation for the Mosaic Christology of the Fourth Gospel

Joel Willitts

Part 5: John’s Prophetic Messiah

10 “When the Christ Appears, Will He Do More Signs Than This Man Has Done?” (John 7:31): Signs and the Messiah in the Gospel of John

Meredith J. C. Warren

11 Christological Transformation of the Motif of “Living Water” (John 4; 7): Prophetic Messiah Expectations and Wisdom Tradition

Andrea Taschl-Erber

12 Jesus, the Eschatological Prophet in the Fourth Gospel: A Case Study in Dialectical Tensions

Paul N. Anderson

Part 6: John’s Messiah and Divinity

13 Wisdom and Logos Traditions in Judaism and John’s Christology

William Loader

14 From Jewish Prophet to Jewish God: How John Made the Divine Jesus Uncreated

Gabriele Boccaccini

15 Jesus—the Divine Bridegroom? John 2–4 and Its Christological Implications

Ruben Zimmermann

16 The Divine Name that the Son Shares with the Father in the Gospel of John

Charles A. Gieschen

17 John 5:19–30: The Son of God is the Apocalyptic Son of Man

Crispin Fletcher-Louis

Part 7: Epilogue

Epilogue: The Early Jewish Messiah of the Gospel of John

Benjamin E. Reynolds

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin E. Reynolds (PhD, 2007, University of Aberdeen) is Associate Professor of New Testament, Tyndale University College, Toronto. He has written on the Gospel of John and, most recently, co-edited with Loren T. Stuckenbruck The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought (Fortress, 2017).

Gabriele Boccaccini (PhD, 1991, University of Turin) is Founding Director of the Enoch Seminar, and Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Rabbinic Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published monographs on early Judaism, including Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (Eerdmans, 2001) and edited numerous volumes.