The Nonviolent Messiah: Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
Jun 2014 · Fortress Press
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240
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About this ebook
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 material—conceptions that informed the Q tradition
and, he argues, Jesus’ own self-understanding.
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 material—conceptions that informed the Q tradition
and, he argues, Jesus’ own self-understanding.
About the author
Simon J. Joseph is adjunct professor of religion at California Lutheran University. He received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and of Jesus, Q, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Judaic Approach to Q (2012).
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