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Messianic High Christology - New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism (Hardcover)
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Messianic High Christology - New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism (Hardcover)
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The depiction of Christ as divine is often assumed to be the
categorical difference between early Jewish messianism and New
Testament Christology. Despite the prolific accomplishments of
recent scholarship on Second Temple messianism and on the origin
and development of "high" Christology, research has largely treated
these as two separate lines of inquiry. As an unintended result,
earliest Christianity appears not as an organic outgrowth of
ancient Judaism, but as something of an anomaly. Ruben A. Buhner
calls this line of thinking into question in Messianic High
Christology. Through a curated set of exegetical comparisons, each
between a christological text and one or two messianic texts,
Buhner reveals to what extent Second Temple messianism is indeed
the primary context for the high Christologies of the New
Testament: most New Testament concepts of Christ's divinity are to
be understood precisely as part of contemporary discourse within
early Jewish messianism. While early understandings of Christ are
not simply identical with some other Jewish messianic expectations,
they should be understood as deliberate developments in acceptance
of and in dialogue with the wider Jewish discourse produced by some
Jewish subgroups. As Buhner argues, it was not until the second and
subsequent centuries that Jews as well as non-Jewish followers of
Christ began to consider the divinity of the messiah as the
decisive criterion by which to distinguish between what later would
develop into two separate religions. With Messianic High
Christology, Buhner brings the New Testament Christologies closer
to their first-century Jewish context. In doing so, he augments our
understanding of the correlation between early devotion to Christ
and early Jewish thought and practice more broadly, and challenges
current historical reconstructions.
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