Translation of: Jesus und das Judentum. This is the first volume of a planned four-volume history of early Christianity; the German original is being published under the title Geschichte des frühen Christentums--See Author's preface to the English edition, page xvii. Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-750) and indexes.
Contents:
Part VII Retrospect and prospect. Judaism and early Christianity -- Part I Judaism -- Judaism under Roman rule in the first century BCE and CE -- The Jewish religious parties in Palestine -- Part II Preliminary questions about the person and history of Jesus -- On the quest for Jesus of Nazareth -- The sources -- The historical quest -- Part III Jesus the Galilean and John the Baptist -- Jesus the Galilean -- John the Baptist -- Jesus and his forerunner -- Part IV Jesus's activity and proclamation -- On the geographical-historical framework of the activity of Jesus -- The poetic form of the proclamation of Jesus -- Jesus' proclamation of the Kingdom of God -- The will of God -- The fatherly love of God -- Part V Jesus' authority and Messianic claim -- The prophetic-Messianic miracle worker -- Prophet or Messiah? -- Part VI Passion of Jesus -- The last confrontation in Jerusalem -- Preparation of the Passion of Jesus -- Gethsemane, arrest, and interrogation of Jesus -- The crucified Messiah -- Part VII The testimony to the ressurection of Jesus -- The testimony to the resurrection of Jesus -- Retrospect and prospect.
Summary:
"The debate over the extent of Jewish influence upon early Christianity rages on. At the heart of this argument lies the question of Jesus: how does the fate of a first-century Galilean Jew inspire and determine the nature, shape, and practices of a distinct religious movement? Vital to this first question is another equally challenging one: can the four Gospels be used to reconstruct the historical Jesus? In Jesus and Judaism, Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer seek to untangle the complex relationships among Jesus, Judaism, and the Gospels in the earliest Christian movement. Jesus and Judaism, the first in a four-volume series, focuses on the person of Jesus in the context of Judaism. Beginning with his Galilean origin, the volume analyzes Jesus' relationship with John the Baptist and the Jewish context of Jesus' life and work. Hengel and Schwemer argue that there never was a nonmessianic Jesus. Rather, his messianic claim finds expression in his relationship to the Baptist, his preaching in authority, his deeds of power, and his crucifixion as king of the Jews, and in the emergence of the earliest Christology. As Hengel and Schwemer reveal, Jesus was not only a devout Jew, nor merely a miracle worker, but the essential part of the earliest form of Christianity. Hengel and Schwemer insist that Jesus belongs within the history of early Christianity, rather than as its presupposition. Christianity did not begin after Jesus' death; Christianity began as soon as a Jew from Galilee started to preach the word of God."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
BMSEC: Baylor-Mohr Siebeck studies in early Christianity Hengel, Martin. Geschichte des frühen Christentums. English ; v. 1.
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