Nonviolent Messiah
Subtitle: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781451472196
Subjects: Jesus christ, historicity; Q hypothesis (synoptics criticism)
Description: "When Scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the "messiah" and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material--conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus' own self-understanding."--amazon.com overview