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Jewish Jesus research and its challenge to Christology today / by Walter Homolka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Homolka, Walter.
- Series:
- Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; volume 30.
- Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; volume 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations.
- Jesus Christ.
- Jewish interpretations.
- Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ--Jewishness.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jewishness of Jesus Christ.
- Jesus Christ--Historicity.
- Historicity of Jesus Christ.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Judaism.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Interfaith relations.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 180 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2017]
- Summary:
- Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move "back to the Jewish roots!" For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.
- Contents:
- 1 Historical Jesus Research: A Reception History 9
- The Modern Quest of a Historical Jesus as a Quest for His Reception 12
- The Development of Reception History as a Tool 15
- Reception History: Global Dimensions 17
- Reception History as a Secularization of the Interpretation of Scripture 27
- Reception Theory in Relation to the Jewish Quest 30
- Creating Space: The Emergence of New Hermeneutical and Methodological Paradigms 32
- 2 The Jewish Jesus Quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums 36
- The Pre-Enlightenment Jewish Jesus 37
- The Emergence of the WLssenschaft des juderttums 42
- The Wissenschaft desJudentums and the Historical Jesus 49
- The Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Concept of a Personal Messiah 54
- The Legacy of the Wissenschaft des Judentums 60
- 3 Reclaimed or Reclaiming? Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus's Wirkungsgeschichte 62
- Jewish Jesus Research: Where to Draw the Line? 62
- My Previous Contribution 63
- Géza Vermes: Concluding the Classical Era of Jewish Jesus Research? 64
- Diversity in the Reception History of the Jewish Jesus 66
- The Jewish Jesus in Literature 81
- Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus 88
- The Contribution of Archaeology to Historical Jesus Studies 102
- 4 Jewish Quests and Christian Problems 105
- The Jewish Quest of the Historical Jesus: In Search for Equality and Acceptance 106
- The Historical Jesus: Challenges to Jewish-Christian Dialogue 107
- The Myth of the Judeo-Christian West 111
- Jesus the Jew: Implications for Future Christian Theology 113
- Back to the Boots? The Value of Christian Hellenism 126
- Jewish Jesus Research: Paving the Way for Common Ground 127.
- Notes:
- Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004331730
- 9004331735
- OCLC:
- 962180671
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004331730
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