The New Testament Christological hymns
Subtitle: their historical religious background
By: by Jack T. Sanders.
Series: Society for New Testament Studies. Monograph series, 15; Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies) ;; 15.
Publisher: University Press; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Person and offices; Bible. N.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 20th century
Description: A study of the hymnic and liturgical material in the New Testament which describes Christ's nature and person. Professor Sanders analyzes the hymns in detail and finds in them a common mythological pattern. He traces its origin to a particular and unorthodox branch of Judaism which is itself a branch of the 'wisdom' tradition where the thanksgiving hymn had its home. His conclusions therefore have considerable importance and implications for questions about the origins of Gnosticism and its influence on Christianity. This is the full-scale historical religious study of the New Testament Christological hymns, and English readers will find particularly useful Professor Sanders' critical survey of recent continental scholarship on this and related subjects.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 145-147.