Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism

Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs

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The essays in Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs seek to interpret John’s Jesus as part of Second Temple Jewish messianic expectations. The Fourth Gospel is rarely considered part of the world of early Judaism. While many have noted John’s Jewishness, most have not understood John’s Messiah as a Jewish messiah.
The Johannine Jesus, who descends from heaven, is declared the Word made flesh, and claims oneness with the Father, is no less Jewish than other messiahs depicted in early Judaism. John’s Jesus is at home on the spectrum of early Judaism’s royal, prophetic, and divine messiahs
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Front Matter
Copyright page
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism
Part 1 John’s Jesus as a Jewish Messiah: Paths Taken and Not Taken
Chapter 2 The Gospel of John’s Christology as Evidence for Early Jewish Messianic Expectations: Challenges and Possibilities
Chapter 3 The Gospel of John as Jewish Messianism: Formative Influences and Neglected Avenues in the History of Scholarship
Part 2 John’s Word and Jewish Messianic Interpretation
Chapter 4 “And The Word Was God”: John’s Christology and Jesus’s Discourse in Jewish Context
Chapter 5 Johannine Christology and Prophetic Traditions: The Case of Isaiah
Chapter 6 Messianic Exegesis in the Fourth Gospel
Part 3 John’s Royal Messiah
Chapter 7 Son of God as Anointed One? Johannine Davidic Christology and Second Temple Messianism
Chapter 8 Divine Kingship and Jesus’s Identity in Johannine Messianism
Chapter 9 David’s Sublation of Moses: A Davidic Explanation for the Mosaic Christology of the Fourth Gospel
Part 4 John’s Prophetic Messiah
Chapter 10 “When the Christ Appears, Will He Do More Signs Than This Man Has Done?” (John 7:31): Signs and the Messiah in the Gospel of John
Chapter 11 Christological Transformation of the Motif of “Living Water” (John 4; 7): Prophetic Messiah Expectations and Wisdom Tradition
Chapter 12 Jesus, the Eschatological Prophet in the Fourth Gospel: A Case Study in Dialectical Tensions
Part 5 John’s Messiah and Divinity
Chapter 13 Wisdom and Logos Traditions in Judaism and John’s Christology
Chapter 14 From Jewish Prophet to Jewish God: How John Made the Divine Jesus Uncreated
Chapter 15 Jesus—the Divine Bridegroom? John 2–4 and Its Christological Implications
Chapter 16 The Divine Name that the Son Shares with the Father in the Gospel of John
Chapter 17 John 5:19–30: The Son of God is the Apocalyptic Son of Man
Epilogue
Epilogue: The Early Jewish Messiah of the Gospel of John
Benjamin E. Reynolds (PhD, 2007, University of Aberdeen) is Associate Professor of New Testament, Tyndale University College, Toronto. He has written on the Gospel of John and, most recently, co-edited with Loren T. Stuckenbruck The Jewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the Shaping of New Testament Thought (Fortress, 2017).

Gabriele Boccaccini (PhD, 1991, University of Turin) is Founding Director of the Enoch Seminar, and Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Rabbinic Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published monographs on early Judaism, including Roots of Rabbinic Judaism (Eerdmans, 2001) and edited numerous volumes.
All essays in this volume are... stimulating and productive of further thought and research. While this collection does not “solve” all of the puzzles of Johannine Christology, it does mark a sea change in this area and sets a fresh and exciting agenda for years to come.
Chris Kugler, RBL 2019
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction


1 Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: An Introduction
 Benjamin E. Reynolds

Part 2: John’s Jesus as a Jewish Messiah: Paths Taken and Not Taken


2 The Gospel of John’s Christology as Evidence for Early Jewish Messianic Expectations: Challenges and Possibilities
 Benjamin E. Reynolds
3 The Gospel of John as Jewish Messianism: Formative Influences and Neglected Avenues in the History of Scholarship
 James F. McGrath

Part 3: John’s Word and Jewish Messianic Interpretation


4 “And The Word Was God”: John’s Christology and Jesus’s Discourse in Jewish Context
 Adele Reinhartz
5 Johannine Christology and Prophetic Traditions: The Case of Isaiah
 Catrin H. Williams
6 Messianic Exegesis in the Fourth Gospel
 Jocelyn McWhirter

Part 4: John’s Royal Messiah


7 Son of God as Anointed One? Johannine Davidic Christology and Second Temple Messianism
 Beth M. Stovell
8 Divine Kingship and Jesus’s Identity in Johannine Messianism
 Marida Nicolaci
9 David’s Sublation of Moses: A Davidic Explanation for the Mosaic Christology of the Fourth Gospel
 Joel Willitts

Part 5: John’s Prophetic Messiah


10 “When the Christ Appears, Will He Do More Signs Than This Man Has Done?” (John 7:31): Signs and the Messiah in the Gospel of John
 Meredith J. C. Warren
11 Christological Transformation of the Motif of “Living Water” (John 4; 7): Prophetic Messiah Expectations and Wisdom Tradition
 Andrea Taschl-Erber
12 Jesus, the Eschatological Prophet in the Fourth Gospel: A Case Study in Dialectical Tensions
 Paul N. Anderson

Part 6: John’s Messiah and Divinity


13 Wisdom and Logos Traditions in Judaism and John’s Christology
 William Loader
14 From Jewish Prophet to Jewish God: How John Made the Divine Jesus Uncreated
 Gabriele Boccaccini
15 Jesus—the Divine Bridegroom? John 2–4 and Its Christological Implications
 Ruben Zimmermann
16 The Divine Name that the Son Shares with the Father in the Gospel of John
 Charles A. Gieschen
17 John 5:19–30: The Son of God is the Apocalyptic Son of Man
 Crispin Fletcher-Louis

Part 7: Epilogue


Epilogue: The Early Jewish Messiah of the Gospel of John
 Benjamin E. Reynolds
Anyone interested in Christology, the Gospel of John, and messianic expectations or messiah figures in early Judaism.
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