Portraits of Jesus
Subtitle: studies in Christology
By: edited by Susan E. Myers
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 321; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 321.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9783161517952
Subjects: Person and offices; Biblical teaching; Significance
Notes: "[Festchrift] offered in honor of Harold W. Attridge on the occasion of his retirement from his post as Dean of Yale Divinity School."-- Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A sententious silence : first thoughts on the Fourth Gospel and the Ardens style  -- George L. Parsenios; title: Like father, like son : an example of Jewish humor in the Gospel of John  -- Joshua Ezra Burns; title: The scripturally complex presentation of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark  -- Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll; title: Disobeying Jesus : a puzzling element in the messianic secret motifs  -- Jeremy F. Hultin; title: Crucifixion, state of emergency, and the proximate marginality of Christ's kingship  -- Timothy Luckritz Marquis; title: Bird watching in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas : from child's play to rituals of divine discernment  -- Stephen J. Davis; title: "The image of God" : becoming like God in Philo, Paul, and early Christianity  -- Gregory E. Sterling; title: Jesus-tradition and Paul's opinion about the widow remaining as a widow (1Cor 7:40)  -- Judith M. Gundry; title: "An idol is nothing in the world" (1 Cor 8:4) : the metaphysical contradictions of 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1 in the context of Jewish idolatry polemics  -- Emma Wasserman; title: The use of Christological traditions in Paul : the case of Rom 3:21-26  -- Thomas H. Tobin; title: The status of Jesus in early Christian prayer texts  -- Paul F. Bradshaw; title: Praying to Jesus in the Acts of Thomas  -- Susan E. Myers; title: Handing on tradition : some themes and images in the Maronite baptismal Ordo  -- Bryan D. Spinks; title: A new sort of priest for a new sort of people : Hebrews as an interpretation of Romans  -- Joshua D. Garroway; title: Standing at the foot of the staircase : Christology and narrative structure in the prologue to Hebrews (Heb 1:1-4)  -- Candida R. Moss; title: Born of fornication : the Jewish charge of Jesus' illegitimacy in John, Celsus, and Origen  -- Daniel C. Harlow; title: Shepherd of the lamb : Paul as a Christ-figure in the Acts of Paul  -- Richard I. Pervo; title: Jesus' reincarnations revisited in Jewish Christianity, Sethian gnosticism, and Mani  -- Dylan M. Burns; title: Archived portraits of Jesus : unorthodox Christological images from John and Athanasius -- Michael Peppard.