Portraits of Jesus : studies in Christology /

Portraits of Jesus : studies in Christology / edited by Susan E. Myers. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2012. - xx, 460 p. ; 24 cm. - Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 321 . - Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 321. .

"[Festschrift] offered in honor of Harold W. Attridge on the occasion of his retirement from his post as Dean of Yale Divinity School."-- Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A sententious silence : first thoughts on the Fourth Gospel and the Ardens style / Like father, like son : an example of Jewish humor in the Gospel of John / The scripturally complex presentation of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark / Disobeying Jesus : a puzzling element in the messianic secret motifs / Crucifixion, state of emergency, and the proximate marginality of Christ's kingship / Bird watching in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas : from child's play to rituals of divine discernment / "The image of God" : becoming like God in Philo, Paul, and early Christianity / Jesus-tradition and Paul's opinion about the widow remaining as a widow (1Cor 7:40) / "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 / The use of Christological traditions in Paul : the case of Rom 3:21-26 / The status of Jesus in early Christian prayer texts / Praying to Jesus in the Acts of Thomas / Handing on tradition : some themes and images in the Maronite baptismal Ordo / A new sort of priest for a new sort of people : Hebrews as an interpretation of Romans / Standing at the foot of the staircase : Christology and narrative structure in the prologue to Hebrews (Heb 1:1-4) / Born of fornication : the Jewish charge of Jesus' illegitimacy in John, Celsus, and Origen / Shepherd of the lamb : Paul as a Christ-figure in the Acts of Paul / Jesus' reincarnations revisited in Jewish Christianity, Sethian gnosticism, and Mani / Archived portraits of Jesus : unorthodox Christological images from John and Athanasius / George L. Parsenios -- Joshua Ezra Burns -- Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll -- Jeremy F. Hultin -- Timothy Luckritz Marquis -- Stephen J. Davis -- Gregory E. Sterling -- Judith M. Gundry -- Emma Wasserman -- Thomas H. Tobin -- Paul F. Bradshaw -- Susan E. Myers -- Bryan D. Spinks -- Joshua D. Garroway -- Candida R. Moss -- Daniel C. Harlow -- Richard I. Pervo -- Dylan M. Burns -- Michael Peppard.

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Jesus Christ--Significance.
Jesus Christ--Person and offices--Biblical teaching.
Attridge, Harold W.

BT304.7 / .P67 2012