The high priest and the temple: metaphorical depictions of Jesus in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch
Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Points of Departure -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Literature Review -- 1.2.1. High Priestly Metaphors -- 1.2.1.1. Ferdinando Bergmalli -- 1.2.1.2. Ole Jakob Filtvedt and Martin Wessbrandt -- 1.2.2. Temple Me...
| Summary: | Cover -- Titel -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Points of Departure -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Literature Review -- 1.2.1. High Priestly Metaphors -- 1.2.1.1. Ferdinando Bergmalli -- 1.2.1.2. Ole Jakob Filtvedt and Martin Wessbrandt -- 1.2.2. Temple Metaphors -- 1.2.2.1. Peter Legarth -- 1.2.2.2. René Kieffer -- 1.3. Methodology -- 1.3.1. History, Theology, and Philology -- 1.3.2. Metaphor -- 1.4. Further Preliminary Considerations -- 1.4.1. Dating Ignatius -- 1.4.2. Occasional Letters -- 1.5. Looking Ahead -- Chapter 2: A Brief Outline of Ignatius's Opponents -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Recent Scholarship -- 2.3. Ignatius's Opponents in Philadelphia -- 2.4. Ignatius's Opponents in Ephesus -- 2.5. Ignatius's Opponents in Magnesia -- 2.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Jesus as High Priest in Philadelphians -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Theme of Unity in Philadelphians -- 3.3. The Identity of the Priests and High Priest in Phld. 9.1 -- 3.4. Jesus as High Priest in Phld. 9.1 -- 3.4.1. The Role of the High Priest -- 3.4.2. Ignatius's High Priestly Jesus alongside Other Early Christian Texts -- 3.4.2.1. Ignatius and Hebrews -- 3.4.2.2. Ignatius, 1 Clement, and Polycarp -- 3.4.3. The Ignatian High Priestly Jesus alongside Other Early Jewish Texts -- 3.5. Jesus as Door in Phld. 9.1 -- 3.5.1. The Role of the Door -- 3.5.2. Other Treatments of Jesus as Door in Early Christianity -- 3.6. Jesus as High Priest and Door in Philadelphians -- 3.6.1. Jesus as High Priest and Door in Phld. 9.1-2 -- 3.6.2. The Place of Phld. 9.1 in the Argument of Phld. 9.1-2 -- 3.6.3. The Place of Phld. 9.1 in the Argument of Phld. 5.1-9.2 -- 3.7. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Temple in Philadelphians -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Ignatius's Visit to Philadelphia -- 4.2.1. The Temple in Phld. 7.2: An Overview 4.2.2. Ignatius's Self-Quotations -- 4.3. The Temple in Phld. 7.2: A More Thorough Look…… -- 4.3.1. The Temple in Ignatius's Second Quotation -- 4.3.1.1. Ignatius and Greek Rhyme -- 4.3.1.2. Ignatius and Parallelism -- 4.3.1.3. Interpreting Phld. 7.2 -- 4.3.2. Philadelphian σάρξ -- 4.3.3. God in the Temple -- 4.3.4. Phld. 7.2 and Early Christian and Early Jewish Literature -- 4.3.4.1. Phld. 7.2 in the Context of Early Christian Literature -- 4.3.4.2. Phld. 7.2 in the Context of Early Jewish Literature -- 4.3.5. The Philadelphians as the Temple of God -- 4.4. Towards a Reading of Phld. 5.1-9.2 -- 4.4.1. The Temple in the Context of Phld. 6.3-8.1 -- 4.4.2. Phld. 6.3-8.1 in the Argument of Phld. 5.1-9.2 -- 4.4.3. The High Priest and Temple in Phld. 5.1-9.2 -- 4.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Temple in Ephesians: Part I -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The Relationship between the Ephesians and God -- 5.3. The Temple and Building in Eph. 9.1 -- 5.3.1. The Text and Its Structure -- 5.3.2. Stones of the Father's Temple -- 5.3.2.1. The Ephesians as Stones -- 5.3.2.2. The Temple and the Building -- 5.3.2.3. The Preparation of the Stones -- 5.3.3. The Crane and the Rope -- 5.3.3.1. The Heights and the Crane -- 5.3.3.2. The Relative Pronoun, Jesus, and the Crane -- 5.3.3.3. The Role of the Crane -- 5.3.3.4. The Rope -- 5.3.4. The Guide and the Way -- 5.3.5. Eph. 9.1 among Early Jewish and Early Christian Texts -- 5.3.5.1. Early Jewish Texts -- 5.3.5.2. Early Christian Texts -- 5.3.6. Conclusion of the Temple and Building -- 5.4. The Temple-Bearers in Eph. 9.2 -- 5.4.1. The Text and Its Structure -- 5.4.2. The Background of Ignatius's Terminology -- 5.4.3. The Function of the Metaphor -- 5.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Temple in Ephesians: Part II -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Structure of Eph. 15.3 and Its Place in the Letter 6.2.1. The Structure of Eph. 15.3 -- 6.2.2. The Place of Eph. 15.3 in the Letter -- 6.3. The Ephesian Temples -- 6.3.1. Our Secrets -- 6.3.2. The Plural Usage of ναοί -- 6.4. The God who Dwells in the Temples -- 6.5. God's Dwelling in Early Jewish and Early Christian Texts -- 6.5.1. Early Jewish Texts -- 6.5.2. Early Christian Texts -- 6.6. Jesus in the Temple -- 6.6.1. Tension between Temple Symbolism and Christology? -- 6.6.2. Jesus in the Temples of Phld. 7.2 -- Eph. 9.1-2 -- 15.3 -- 6.7. The Function of the Temples in Eph. 15.3 within the Letter -- 6.8. The Function of the Temple Metaphors in Eph. 9.1-2 -- 15.3 -- 6.8.1. Two Metaphors Compared -- 6.8.2. The Temples in Polemic against the Opponents -- 6.9. Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Temple in Magnesians -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The Argument and Role of Unity in Magnesians -- 7.2.1. The Structure of the Two Central Sections -- 7.2.2. The Role of Unity and Harmony -- 7.3. The Text and Structure of Magn. 7 -- 7.4. One Temple of God -- 7.4.1. The Temple in Magn. 7.2 -- 7.4.2. The One Temple in Early Jewish and Early Christian Texts -- 7.4.2.1. Early Jewish Texts -- 7.4.2.2. Early Christian Texts -- 7.5. One Altar -- 7.6. One Jesus Christ -- 7.7. Magn. 7.2 in the Argument of the Letter -- 7.8. Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Temple Fragments and Priestly Shadows -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Temple Fragments and Cultic Terminology -- 8.2.1. Altar -- 8.2.2. Sanctuary -- 8.2.3. Sacrificial Terminology -- 8.2.4. Household -- 8.3. Priestly Shadows -- 8.3.1. Priestly Activity in Cultic Metaphors -- 8.3.2. Mediatorial Activity Elsewhere in Ignatius's Letters -- 8.4. The Relationship between Jesus and the Temple -- 8.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 9: The Vistas We Have Reached -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. What We Have Seen -- 9.3. Major Conclusions and Implications -- 9.4. Looking Ahead, Again -- Bibliography Index of References -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects |
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| ISBN: | 3161560728 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-156072-9 |