The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context

Essays in Honor of John Nolland

Aaron White, David Wenham, Craig A. Evans, Aaron White, David Wenham, Craig A. Evans

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780567690067
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567671783
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Théologie et religion
• Subtopic: Études bibliques

This volume contributes to the study of the identity of Jesus, focusing on how he was originally perceived both by his contemporaries and in the earliest Christian writings. The essays include studies of methodology, archaeology, background, individual gospel perspectives, gospel relationships,
intertextuality in the gospels, the earliest reception of the Jesus tradition in the post-Easter writings of the New Testament, and the missiological and pedagogical implications of Jesus' teaching.

John Nolland is the reason for this volume, and his important writings on the gospels are its backdrop. The contributors, who include N.T. Wright, Craig Evans, Darrell Bock, Rainer Riesner and Roland Deines, pay tribute to Nolland's work and ideas, by drawing on his writings, and by exploring questions and issues close to his heart.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Profile and Appreciation of John Nolland
• John Nolland Selected Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. The Nazareth of Jesus
• 2. ‘On This Rock I Will Build My Church’ (Matthew 16.18): Was the Promise to Peter a Response to Tetrarch Philip’s Proclamation?
• 3. Biographies of Jesus in Old Testament and Rabbinic Style: The Genre of the New Testament Gospels
• 4. The Provenance of Jesus’ Quotations of Scripture from a Social Memory Perspective
• 5. Son of Man – Lord of the Temple? Gospel Echoes of Psalm 8 and the Ongoing Christological Challenge
• 6. Authority and Accountability in Luke 11.24–13.9
• 7. Pharisees and Jesus’ Power of Persuasion in Luke–Acts: Another Consideration of their Characterization
• 8. Jesus, Son of Adam and Son of God (Luke 3.38): Adam-Christ Typologies in Luke–Acts
• 9. Identity and Christology: The Ascended Jesus in the Book of Acts
• 10. The Jewish Saviour for Israel in the Missionary Speeches of Acts
• 11. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’? Jerusalem in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
• 12. Insisting on Easter: Matthew’s Use of the Theologically Provocative Vocative (κύριε) in the Suppliant Narratives
• 13. How Do the Beatitudes Work? Some Observations on the Structure of the Beatitudes in Matthew
• 14. The Holy Spirit in Matthew’s Gospel
• 15. Jesus, the Founder of sabbatismos
• 16. Exalted Lord and Suffering Servant: The Response to Jesus in James and 1 Peter
• 17. Jesus, the Theological Educator: Lessons in Transformational Teaching from the Gospel of Luke
• 18. Lives that Speak: ἡ λογικὴ λατρεία in Romans 12.1
• Index of References
• Index of Authors