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Portraits of Jesus : studies in Christology / edited by Susan E. Myers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; ; 321.Publication details: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2012.Description: xx, 460 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783161517952 (pbk.)
  • 3161517954 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT304.7 .P67 2012
Contents:
A sententious silence : first thoughts on the Fourth Gospel and the Ardens style / George L. Parsenios -- Like father, like son : an example of Jewish humor in the Gospel of John / Joshua Ezra Burns -- The scripturally complex presentation of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark / Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll -- Disobeying Jesus : a puzzling element in the messianic secret motifs / Jeremy F. Hultin -- Crucifixion, state of emergency, and the proximate marginality of Christ's kingship / Timothy Luckritz Marquis -- Bird watching in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas : from child's play to rituals of divine discernment / Stephen J. Davis -- "The image of God" : becoming like God in Philo, Paul, and early Christianity / Gregory E. Sterling -- Jesus-tradition and Paul's opinion about the widow remaining as a widow (1Cor 7:40) / Judith M. Gundry -- "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 / Emma Wasserman -- The use of Christological traditions in Paul : the case of Rom 3:21-26 / Thomas H. Tobin -- The status of Jesus in early Christian prayer texts / Paul F. Bradshaw -- Praying to Jesus in the Acts of Thomas / Susan E. Myers -- Handing on tradition : some themes and images in the Maronite baptismal Ordo / Bryan D. Spinks -- A new sort of priest for a new sort of people : Hebrews as an interpretation of Romans / Joshua D. Garroway -- Standing at the foot of the staircase : Christology and narrative structure in the prologue to Hebrews (Heb 1:1-4) / Candida R. Moss -- Born of fornication : the Jewish charge of Jesus' illegitimacy in John, Celsus, and Origen / Daniel C. Harlow -- Shepherd of the lamb : Paul as a Christ-figure in the Acts of Paul / Richard I. Pervo -- Jesus' reincarnations revisited in Jewish Christianity, Sethian gnosticism, and Mani / Dylan M. Burns -- Archived portraits of Jesus : unorthodox Christological images from John and Athanasius / Michael Peppard.
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"[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 / George L. Parsenios -- Like father, like son : an example of Jewish humor in the Gospel of John / Joshua Ezra Burns -- The scripturally complex presentation of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark / Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll -- Disobeying Jesus : a puzzling element in the messianic secret motifs / Jeremy F. Hultin -- Crucifixion, state of emergency, and the proximate marginality of Christ's kingship / Timothy Luckritz Marquis -- Bird watching in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas : from child's play to rituals of divine discernment / Stephen J. Davis -- "The image of God" : becoming like God in Philo, Paul, and early Christianity / Gregory E. Sterling -- Jesus-tradition and Paul's opinion about the widow remaining as a widow (1Cor 7:40) / Judith M. Gundry -- "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 / Emma Wasserman -- The use of Christological traditions in Paul : the case of Rom 3:21-26 / Thomas H. Tobin -- The status of Jesus in early Christian prayer texts / Paul F. Bradshaw -- Praying to Jesus in the Acts of Thomas / Susan E. Myers -- Handing on tradition : some themes and images in the Maronite baptismal Ordo / Bryan D. Spinks -- A new sort of priest for a new sort of people : Hebrews as an interpretation of Romans / Joshua D. Garroway -- Standing at the foot of the staircase : Christology and narrative structure in the prologue to Hebrews (Heb 1:1-4) / Candida R. Moss -- Born of fornication : the Jewish charge of Jesus' illegitimacy in John, Celsus, and Origen / Daniel C. Harlow -- Shepherd of the lamb : Paul as a Christ-figure in the Acts of Paul / Richard I. Pervo -- Jesus' reincarnations revisited in Jewish Christianity, Sethian gnosticism, and Mani / Dylan M. Burns -- Archived portraits of Jesus : unorthodox Christological images from John and Athanasius / Michael Peppard.