The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition

The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition

Author
Simon J. Joseph
Publisher
Fortress Press
Language
English
Year
2014
ISBN
9781451484434,9781451472196
File Type
epub
File Size
787.3 KiB

When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the messiah and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic materialconceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus own self-understanding.

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