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4 - Paul’s Jesus as the Christ

from Part I - Origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Matthew V. Novenson
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This chapter examines the figure of Jesus in the letters of Paul, where Jesus is most often called Christ or messiah. The analysis briefly considers the linguistic puzzles around Paul’s use of the word “Christ,” then trace the contours of Paul’s particular account of Jesus as the Christ: his being sent by God, dying for others, effecting the resurrection of the dead, subduing all rival powers, and handing over kingship to God.

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JesusmessiahChristlettersPaul
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 58 - 71
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Boakye, Andrew K. 2017. Death and Life: Resurrection, Restoration, and Rectification in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. Eugene: Pickwick.Google Scholar
Bühner, Ruben A. 2021. Messianic High Christology: New Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism. Waco: Baylor University Press.Google Scholar
Dahl, Nils Alstrup. 1991. Jesus the Christ: The Historical Origins of Christological Doctrine. Edited by Juel, Donald H.. Minneapolis: Fortress.Google Scholar
Davies, W. D. 1948. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism: Some Rabbinic Elements in Pauline Theology. London: SPCK.Google Scholar
Fredriksen, Paula. 2017. Paul, the Pagans’ Apostle. New Haven: Yale University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hewitt, J. Thomas. 2020. Messiah and Scripture: Paul’s “In Christ” Idiom in Its Ancient Jewish Context. WUNT 2:522. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jipp, Joshua W. 2015. Christ Is King: Paul’s Royal Ideology. Minneapolis: Fortress.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kähler, Martin. 1964. The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ. Translated by Carl E. Braaten. Philadelphia: Fortress.Google Scholar
Kramer, Werner R. 1966. Christ, Lord, Son of God. Translated by B. Hardy. SBT 50. London: SCM.Google Scholar
McCaulley, Esau. 2019. Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance: Davidic Messianism and Paul’s Worldwide Interpretation of the Abrahamic Land Promise in Galatians. LNTS 608. London: T & T Clark.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Novenson, Matthew V. 2012. Christ among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Novenson, Matthew V. 2017. The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Sanders, E. P. 1977. Paul and Palestinian Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress.Google Scholar
Schweitzer, Albert. 1931. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle. Translated by W. Montgomery. London: A&C Black.Google Scholar
Stowers, Stanley K. 1994. A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Wright, N. T. 1991. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.Google Scholar

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