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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136649003321

Autore

Homolka Walter

Titolo

Jewish Jesus research and its challenge to Christology today / / by Walter Homolka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

90-04-33174-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Collana

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, , 1388-2074 ; ; Volume 30

Disciplina

232.9/06

Soggetti

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Jesus Research: A Reception History -- 2 The Jewish Jesus Quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums -- 3 Reclaimed or Reclaiming? Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus’s Wirkungsgeschichte -- 4 Jewish Quests and Christian Problems -- Conclusion: Implications and Future Perspectives -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.