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The Nonviolent Messiah

Jesus, Q, and the Enochic Tradition
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When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the "messiah" and other reemptive 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. Simon J. Joseph enters the wide-ranging discussion of violence in the Bible, taking up questions of Jesus of Nazareth's relationship to the violence of revolutionary militancy and apocalyptic fantasy alike, and proposes an innovative new approach. Missing from past discussions, Joseph contends, is the unique conception of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material - a conception that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus' own self-understanding.
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).
Part 1; 1. Jesus, Q, and the "Good News"; 2. The Nonviolent Jesus; 3. The God of War: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible; 4. The Apocalyptic Jesus: Divine Violence in the New Testament; Part 2; 5. Jesus???????; 6. The Christologies of Q; 7. The Messianic Secret of the Son of Man; 8. The Enochic Son of Man; 9. The Enochic Adam; Part 3; 10. The Kingdom, the Son, and the Gospel of Nonviolence; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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