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Psalm 8 and the Son of Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2001

MICHAEL GOULDER
MICHAEL GOULDER
Affiliation:
51 Valentine Road, Birmingham B14 7AJ, UK
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Abstract

There is no adequate evidence of a ‘Son of Man’ concept in Jesus’ time, nor of a common Aramaism for ‘man’ (misunderstood by Aramaic-speaking evangelists). Ps 8.6 was widely used to explain the delay in Christians’ resurrection: the υιος ανθρωπου to whom all would be subjected in time was Jesus. Heb 2.8–9 makes this explicit, proving Jesus’ incarnation (‘briefly inferior to angels’), cross and resurrection (‘crowned . . . because of the suffering of death’). Mark exploits the title: Jesus was the Son of Man, prophesied to come, to die and to rise; and the similar phrase in Dan 7.13 suggests his parousia and authority.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 18 - 29
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper was delivered as the Ethel M. Wood Lecture in the University of London on 20 March 2001.