Matthew S Transfiguration Story And Jewish Christian Controversy

Author : A. D. A. Moses
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850755760

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Matthew's Transfiguration Story and Jewish-Christian Controversy by A. D. A. Moses Pdf

The Gospel accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus continue to puzzle the average reader. The purpose of this book is to address some of the perplexing issues surrounding the event, and to explain the significance of the transfiguration, particularly in Matthew's Gospel. It demonstrates that Matthew's account of the event is to be seen in the context of first-century controversy between Christians and Jews about Jesus and Moses, with the Jews emphasizing Moses' greatness and Matthew portraying the transfiguration within Moses-Sinai categories and also in terms of the enigmatic Son of Man figure in Daniel 7. Possible influence of the transfiguration event is also seen elsewhere, particularly in 2 Corinthians 3 and 4, where, the author argues, Paul uses his Damascus road experience as a counter to his opponents' emphasis on the law and Peter's witness to Jesus' transfiguration.

Author : Simon S. Lee
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161500032

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Jesus' Transfiguration and the Believers' Transformation by Simon S. Lee Pdf

Revision of the author's thesis (Th.D.)--Harvard University, 2008.

Author : Peter Cresswell
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785352782

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The Lost Narrative of Jesus by Peter Cresswell Pdf

The greatest Christian mystery resolved! Of all the stories about Jesus, the transfiguration has been the most difficult to understand. It contains improbable, miraculous elements: a secret meeting on a mountain with Moses and Elijah - both long since dead, God speaking from a cloud, Jesus with his face and clothes transfigured by heavenly light. The story sits, with curious inconsistencies, uneasily in the gospels. There are two current theories: either that it is an allegory or a misplaced post-resurrection account. The author carefully analyses the text to show that neither is right and, in the course of his investigation, causes the pieces of the puzzle to fall dramatically back into place. The underlying Jewish narrative of the first of the four canonical gospels is once more revealed. The transfiguration story is part of the lost ending of Mark, displaced within the text and modified by later Christian editors. It tells of the awesome moment when Jesus, his body scarred through crucifixion by the Romans, came down from Mount Hermon to greet a waiting crowd.

Author : Eric Eve
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841273150

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The Jewish Context of Jesus' Miracles by Eric Eve Pdf

Scholarly literature on Jesus has often attempted to relate his miracles to their Jewish context, but that context has not been surveyed in its own right. This volume fills that gap by examining both the ideas on miracle in Second Temple literature (including Josephus, Philo, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha) and the evidence for contemporary Jewish miracle workers. The penultimate chapter explores insights from cultural anthropology to round out the picture obtained from the literary evidence, and the study concludes that Jesus is distinctive as a miracle-worker in his Jewish context while nevertheless fitting into it.

Author : David Bauer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567244079

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Structure of Matthew's Gospel by David Bauer Pdf

This book addresses a central issue confronting the reader of the Gospel. Professor Bauer describes the impasse that has been reached in recent investigation of the structure of Matthew and demonstrates that an appreciation of literary design can provide a way forward. After identifying rhetorical features that relate to literary structure, he devotes the major part of his book to a systematic examination of such features as they appear in the Gospel in order to gain a fresh insight into the shape of the work. This study is valuable both for its comprehensive and judicious review of the question of structure in Matthew's Gospel and for the new direction which it establishes.

Author : David L. Turner
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451470055

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Israel's Last Prophet by David L. Turner Pdf

Jesus words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism. But what did those words originally mean within Matthews narrative? David L. Turner examines how Matthew has taken up Deuteronomic themes of prophetic rejection and judgment and woven them throughout the Gospel, culminating in Matthew 23:32. Matthew was engaged in a heated intramural dispute with other Jewish groups, Turner argues. The legacy of Christian anti-Jewish violence reflects a gross misunderstanding of Matthew by generations who have failed to recognize the authors worldview and allusions.

Author : Marion Moeser
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826460592

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The Anecdote in Mark, the Classical World and the Rabbis by Marion Moeser Pdf

This major study of a Markan genre, represented in the central section 8.27-10.4, ranges through Greek, rabbinic and early Christian literature, providing detailed comparison with the anecdotes in Lucian's Demonax and the Mishnah.Moeser concludes that the Markan anecdotes clearly follow the definition of, and typologies for, the Greek chreia. His analysis indicates that while the content of the three sets of anecdotes is peculiar to its respective cultural setting, the Greek, Jewish and Christian examples all function according to the purposes of the genre.

Author : Jey Kanagaraj
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850758655

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Mysticism in the Gospel of John by Jey Kanagaraj Pdf

This is the first detailed study of Johannine mysticism against a Palestinian Jewish background has been previously undertaken. This book investiages whether there was a "mystical" practice in first-century Palestine and whether John can be better understood in the light of such practice, if there was any. In analysis, two strands of Jewish mysticism, the early forms of Ma`aseh Merkabah and of Ma`aseh Bereshit, emerge as existing in first-century Palestine. While the former narrates by means of Ezek. 1 the experience of seeing God in His kingly glory, the latter describes the same expereince by using Gen. 1. This book consists of three parts. Part one analyses Hellenistic mysticism as expressed by the Hermetica and Hellenistic-Jewish mysticism as presented by Philo. Part two traces the important elements of Merkabah mysticism from the later Hekhalot literature and the Jewish and Christian writings belonging to 2 cent. BCE - 1 cent. CE by defining the term "mysticism" in terms of the fourteen aspects of Jewish mysticism, an exegetical study of seven themes is undertaken in Part Three. The study shows that the conceptual parallels in John with Hellenistic mysticism and Hellenistic-Jewish mysticism are very slender, but indicates John's polemical motive against the Merkabah mystics of his time. He calls them to believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, by proclaiming that the divine glory, claimed by them to be revealed in human-like form on the throne, is now visible in the historical person, Jesus, particularly in his death on the Cross. Thus Jewish Throne-mysticism seems to have been reinterpreted by John as Cross-mysticism.

Author : Friedrich Avemarie,Hermann Lichtenberger
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Resurrection
ISBN : 3161482735

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Auferstehung by Friedrich Avemarie,Hermann Lichtenberger Pdf

Author : Barbara Shellard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841272368

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New Light on Luke by Barbara Shellard Pdf

This radical new interpretation reveals many connections between Luke and Johannine traditions. Comparision of pericopae shared by Luke and John suggests that the usual assumptions of Lukan priority may be mistaken; instead his may be chronologically the fourth gospel. Luke nevertheless treats his sources in different ways, his response being both critical and creative. He aims to give security to Christians by including as much as possible and reconciling conflicting traditions, while firmly excluding heretical misinterpretation. Shellard also includes a consideration of Luke's use of possible sources, both canonical and extra-canonical, and places Luke-Acts in its literary context, noting among other things the presentation of Rome as a facilitator of evangelization and a promoter of co-existence.>

Author : S. John Roth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
ISBN : 9781850756675

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The Blind, the Lame, and the Poor by S. John Roth Pdf

Why are the blind, the lame, the poor, and similar characters so prominent in the Gospel of Luke and all but absent in Acts?

Author : Anders Runesson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451452259

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Divine Wrath and Salvation in Matthew by Anders Runesson Pdf

Judgment and the wrath of God are prominent themes in Matthew’s Gospel. Because judgment is announced not only on the hypocritical but also on those who reject God’s messengers—and because this rejection is implicitly connected with the destruction of Jerusalem—the Gospel has often been read in terms of God’s rejection of Israel, with catastrophic results. Anders Runesson sets out to show, through careful study of Matthew’s composition and comparison with contemporary Jewish literature, that the theme of divine judgment plays very different and distinct roles regarding diverse groups of Jews (including Jesus’ disciples) and non-Jews in this Gospel. Runesson examines various assumptions regarding the criteria of judgment in each case and finds that Matthew does not support some of the most popular slogans in Christian theology. The results and implications for our historical understanding of Christian origins and our theological estimation of Matthew’s place in that story will be of vital interest to scholars and students for years to come.

Author : Dorothy A. Lee
Publisher : ATF Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781925679267

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Creation, Matter and the Image of God by Dorothy A. Lee Pdf

This book gathers together a selection of essays and articles by the author that have as their main focus the Gospel of John. They explore the symbolism of the text and the way it communicates key Johannine themes, using a narrative critical approach, with attention to the theology emerging from the literary structures. The contents employ but also seek to move beyond critical methodology to a perspective that takes seriously feminist studies, as well as Eastern Orthodox theological emphasis on the integrity of creation.

Author : Richard Beaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139436564

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Isaiah's Christ in Matthew's Gospel by Richard Beaton Pdf

Matthew's Jesus is typically described as the humble, compassionate messiah. This 2002 book argues that this is, however, only half the story. Matthew's theologically rich quotation of Isaiah 42.1–4, traditionally considered one of the four servant songs, underscores that manifest in Jesus' powerful message and deeds, particularly his healings and inclusion of the marginalized, is the justice that was thought to accompany the arrival of the kingdom of God. The study explores modifications to the text-form of the Isaianic citations, their relationship to the surrounding context, and the rhetorical force of the final form. It argues that the quotations are bi-referential, functioning on both a narrative and theological level, and also explores the issues surrounding the troublesome 'extraneous' content. It arrives at the conclusion that this citation was central to Matthew's understanding of Jesus' life and mission. All totalled, this study offers a refreshing exploration of Matthew's high, ethical Christology.

Author : Pavol Bargár
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788024654072

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The Bible, Christianity, and Culture by Pavol Bargár Pdf

This book originated in the Donatio Universitatis Carolinae award and research support that Professor Petr Pokorný received in 2017. It was envisioned, designed, and originally conducted as a project exploring the biblical roots of Christian culture. Experts in various theological and philosophical disciplines, both from the Czech Republic and abroad, were to probe this topic from their particular perspectives. The hoped-for output was to be a coherent collective study of the proposed topic. However, due to the unexpected passing away of Prof. Pokorný in early 2020, the project could not be executed according to the original plan. Rather than a collective monograph, therefore, the present book is a collection of essays that investigate various aspects of the Bible and Christianity in their relation to culture as a broad human phenomenon. The book is divided into two sections. While the first section focuses on particular issues in the Bible, the second addresses historical, philosophical, and cultural developments. As Petr Pokorný was actively and importantly involved in the initial stages of the project, two essays are written by him personally. The whole book, then, is dedicated in his honor.