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Reconstructing Israel: Restoration Eschatology in Early Judaism and Paul's Gentile Mission

THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RELATIONS OF FREEDOM AND TIME IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: AN EVALUATION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DAVID BOHM AND PAULI PYLKKÖ by Michael F. Younker Adviser: Martin Hanna ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHOF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

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The Theological Significance of the Relations of Freedom and Time in the Sciences and Humanities: An Evaluation of the Contributions of David Bohm and Pauli Pylkko

Current historical positions on the origins and history of Christian
martyrology generally take one of two positions. W. H. C. Frend, in
his classic Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church,
argues essentially that Christian martyrology is a "prolongation
and supersession" of Jewish martyrology. In diametrical opposition,
G. Bowersock, in his recent Martyrdom and Rome, argues that
Christian martyrdom has nothing to do with Judaism or with the Palestinian
cultural context of early Christianity, but is entirely a Roman cultural
product, adapted for Christianity, and later borrowed from Christians
by Jews. Both are dependent on the assumption of a clear and virtually
absolute separate identity for the two religions in Late Antiquity. In
the current essay, I shall try to show that we need to think of much more
complex ways that Christianity and Judaism interacted during the crucial
second, third, and fourth centuries, as well as of a much more nuanced
understanding of the nature of martyrology itself. Martyrology is an
overdetermined, multisourced discourse that undergoes significant
development within late antique Judaism and Christianity. Many of the
new elements can be shown to be shared by both religious groups, and
the direction of "influence" is not only one-way. A model of close
contact and dialogue between the two emerging "religions" seems to explain
best the historical developments. The present essay is one part of the
first of a series of planned monographs on such contact and dialogue
with respect to the religious creativity of Judaism and Christianity in
Late Antiquity.

Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism

SCRIPTURE IN HISTORY: A SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE Joseph K. Gordon, B.A., M.Div. Marquette University This work utilizes advances in philosophical hermeneutics, the historical study of Christian Scripture, and traditional theological resources to articulate a systematic theology of the Christian Bible. Chapter one introduces the challenges of the contemporary ecclesial and academic situations of Christian Scripture and invokes and explains a functional notion of systematic theology as a resource for meeting those challenges. Chapter two examines the use of the rule of faith by Irenaeus, Origen, and Augustine to locate the emergence of Christian Scripture within the faith of early Christian churches. It shows that structured, intelligible Christian belief and thought are developing and operative in Christian communities and that such faith guided engagement with Christian Scripture. Chapter three summarizes the judgments of the previous chapter, invokes the doctrines of the Nicene Creed as a rule of faith for locating Scripture within the economic work of the Triune God, and supplements the Creed with judgments and hypotheses regarding divine and human freedom and action and the missions of the Son of God and the Holy Spirit in human history. Such resources provide heuristics of the divine contexts of Christian Scripture. Since Christian Scripture bears the influence of its human transmitters and serves distinctive human purposes, chapter four articulates a philosophical and theological anthropology as an account of the human context of Christian Scripture. Chapters five and six explain the nature and purpose of Christian Scripture within the divine and human contexts of the previous two chapters. The former offers a historical overview and theological evaluation of the material history and diversity of Christian Scripture. The latter provides an account of the unity of Christian Scripture. Scripture is one, despite its diversity, because of the unified work of the Holy Spirit in inspiring and illuminating it in Christian community, because of the unity of its reference to the revelatory work of the Triune God centering on Jesus Christ, and finally because of its usefulness for bearing witness to and facilitating the work of the Holy Spirit and the Son of God in history.

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Scripture in History: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible

Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew

The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation

This volume challenges the current consensus in New Testament scholarship that each of the Gospels was written for a specific church or group of churches. These essays argue, from a wide range of evidence, that the Gospels were intended for general circulation throughout all the early churches and, hence, were written for all Christians. Loveday Alexander, Stephen C. Barton, Richard Bauckham, Richard Burridge, Michael B. Thompson, and Francis Watson examine such topics as the extent of communication between early Christian churches, book production and circulation in the Graeco-Roman world, the Gospel genre and its audience, the relationships between the Gospels, the faulty enterprise of reconstructing Gospel communities, and the hermeneutical and theological pitfalls of reading the Gospels as community texts. By putting in question a large body of assumptions that are almost universally accepted in contemporary scholarship, this book could fundamentally change both the method and the findings of Gospel interpretation.

The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences

This new book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as "anonymous community traditions," asserting instead that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitnesses To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, study of personal names in the first century, and recent developments in the understanding of oral traditions "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses" also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory and cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the "historical Jesus" and the "Christ of faith," proposing instead the "Jesus of testimony" Sure to ignite heated debate on the precise character of the testimony about Jesus, "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses" will be valued by scholars, students, and all who seek to understand the origins of the Gospels

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Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

1. Reading the Book of Revelation 2. The One who is and who was and who is to come 3. The Lamb on the throne 4. The victory of the Lamb and his followers 5. The Spirit of prophecy 6. The New Jerusalem 7. Revelation for today For further reading Notes Abbreviations.

The Theology of the Book of Revelation

God Crucified presents a new proposal for understanding New Testament Christology in its Jewish context. Using the latest scholarly discussion about the nature of Jewish monotheism as his starting point, Richard Bauckham builds a convincing argument that the early Christian view of Jesus' divinity is fully consistent with the Jewish understanding of God.Bauckham first shows that early Judaism had clear ways of distinguishing God absolutely from all other reality. When New Testament Christology is read with this Jewish context in mind, it becomes clear that early Christians did not break with Jewish monotheism; rather, they simply included Jesus within the unique identity of Israel's God. In the final part of the book Bauckham shows that God's own identity, in turn, is also revealed in the life, death, and exaltation of Jesus.Originating as the prestigious 1996 Didsbury Lectures, this volume makes a contribution to biblical studies that will be of interest to Jews and Christians alike.

Richard Bauckham

Papers

The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation

The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

The Theology of the Book of Revelation

God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament