Myrick C. Shinall Jr.

Miracles and the Kingdom of God (eBook, ePUB)

Christology and Social Identity in Mark and Q

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the last decade or so, scholarship on the miracles of Jesus has shifted from reconstructions of the historical Jesus to the questions of why and to what end early Jesus-followers told stories about miracles. Myrick Shinall contends that Mark and Q contain two distinct ways of remembering Jesus's miracles in relation to his proclamation of the kingdom of God. He compares three cases of Mark-Q overlaps which feature miracles: the Beelzebul controversy, the commissioning of the disciples, and the testing or "temptation" narratives, and finds that in Mark, the miracles and the kingdom of God both point to Jesus' identity as a divine figure, whereas in Q, Jesus and the miracles point instead to the coming kingdom of God. Shinall further argues that these different views represent different strategies for creating group identities for Jesus' followers, strategies that came into conflict as the movement's identity coalesced. At length, he shows that the mix of "high" and "low" Christology in the Synoptic tradition requires reframing of the current debate over how early a "high" Christology developed in the nascent Jesus movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978701120
• Artikelnr.: 52381088

Autorenporträt

Myrick C. Shinall Jr. is assistant professor of surgery and medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Objections
The Kentucky Fried Rat
Objection 1: The Bible is not Folklore
Objection 2: There is no Q
Objection 3: There is no New Testament Christology
Conclusion
The Purposes of Narrating Miracle Stories
Miracles and Identity Formation
Miracles in the Ancient Mediterranean
Conclusion
The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan
The Kingdom of God: Background
The Kingdom of God: Q
The Kingdom of God: Mark
Satan and His Kingdom
Conclusion
The Beelzebul Controversy
Controversy and Identity
The Beelzebul Controversy in Mark
The Beelzebul Controversy in the Double Tradition
Conclusion
5. The Commissioning of the Disciples
Charisma and Succession
The Commissioning in Mark
The Commissioning in the Double Tradition
Conclusion
6. The Testing of Jesus
Testing and Initiation
The Testing of Jesus in the Double Tradition
The Testing of Jesus in Mark
Conclusion
7.Conclusion
Mark and Q
Christology and Social Identity
Miracles and the Kingdom of God