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The Development of Christology during the First Hundred Years
and other essays on early Christian Christology
Series: - Novum Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 140
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Entering the debate about the development of Christology among Jesus' earliest followers, this volume critiques both the traditional evolutionary view that posited an elementary early Jewish Christology that developed in complexity as it was increasingly Hellenized and the more recent attempt to see a full-orbed Christology both as early and as Jewish, not Hellenistic, in its categories. It contends that during the first 100 years Jesus' followers employed four models from their milieu, Jewish and Greco-Roman, both to understand and to communicate their Christologies. These models were appropriated because they were appropriate vehicles for expressing the impact of Jesus on them, past, present, and future.
Charles H. Talbert, Ph.D. in Biblical Studies, Vanderbilt University, is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA. He has published extensively on the Gospels and Paul, most recently
Ephesians and Collossians and
Matthew in the Paideia New Testament Commentary series issued by Baker Academic.
"Der Aufsatzband zeigt einen in sich geschlossenen christologischen (Lebens-) Entwurf von hoher innerer Geschlossenheit und Konsequenz. Einige Standards christologischen Nachdenkens werden hier einer kritischen Prüfung unterzogen und erhalten eine nachdenkenswerte Alternative." – Kurt Erlemann, in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung 137 (2012), 10
PART ONE: SYNTHESIS
Chapter 1 The Development of Christology in the First 100 Years: A Modest Proposal
PART TWO: BUILDING BLOCKS
Chapter 2 The Problem of Pre-Existence in Philippians 2:6-11
Chapter 3 The Concept of Immortals in Mediterranean Antiquity
Chapter 4 The Myth of a Descending-Ascending Redeemer in Mediterranean Antiquity
Chapter 5 The Gospel and the Gospels
Chapter 6 Expository Article: Luke 1:26-31
Chapter 7 And the Word Became Flesh: When?
Chapter 8 The Christology of the Apocalypse
Chapter 9 Miraculous Conceptions and Births in Mediterranean Antiquity
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
Chapter 1 The Development of Christology in the First 100 Years: A Modest Proposal
PART TWO: BUILDING BLOCKS
Chapter 2 The Problem of Pre-Existence in Philippians 2:6-11
Chapter 3 The Concept of Immortals in Mediterranean Antiquity
Chapter 4 The Myth of a Descending-Ascending Redeemer in Mediterranean Antiquity
Chapter 5 The Gospel and the Gospels
Chapter 6 Expository Article: Luke 1:26-31
Chapter 7 And the Word Became Flesh: When?
Chapter 8 The Christology of the Apocalypse
Chapter 9 Miraculous Conceptions and Births in Mediterranean Antiquity
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
Those interested in ancient Mediterranean religions, Greco-Roman, Jewish, and early Christian, and their mutual contributions to one another.