Communal Incarnation: The Corporate, Collective Jesus of Paul’s Letters
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In his authentic letters, Paul describes a historical, human Jesus, but is strangely silent about the events of Jesus’ life. At the same time, Paul describes the figure of Christ using participatory language, and provides no reason to think that this collective embodiment of Christ does not also apply to Jesus’ historical body. I propose that Paul’s historical Jesus was therefore a corporate figure, embodied by the Jewish, pre-Christian community to which Jesus the Nazarene belonged. I present the literary background for this proposal, and explain how the evidence in Paul for a historical Jesus should be interpreted in a corporate or collective sense. I also provide a typological derivation of the name ‘Jesus’ in Paul.
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Communal Incarnation: The Corporate, Collective Jesus of Paul’s Letters
In: Journal for the Study of the Historical JesusSearch for other papers by Michael T. Zeddies in
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Abstract
In his authentic letters, Paul describes a historical, human Jesus, but is strangely silent about the events of Jesus’ life. At the same time, Paul describes the figure of Christ using participatory language, and provides no reason to think that this collective embodiment of Christ does not also apply to Jesus’ historical body. I propose that Paul’s historical Jesus was therefore a corporate figure, embodied by the Jewish, pre-Christian community to which Jesus the Nazarene belonged. I present the literary background for this proposal, and explain how the evidence in Paul for a historical Jesus should be interpreted in a corporate or collective sense. I also provide a typological derivation of the name ‘Jesus’ in Paul.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 723 | 108 | 11 |
| Full Text Views | 97 | 17 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 208 | 20 | 0 |