RT Book
T1 Jesus and YHWH-texts in the synoptic gospels
T2 Library of New Testament studies
JF Library of New Testament studies
A1 Brazil, Scott
LA English
PP London
PB T&T Clark
YR 2024
ED 1st ed
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1883171210
AB Scott Brazil examines the frequent practice of applying Old Testament YHWH-texts to Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels. He argues that this YHWH-text phenomenon evidences a high Christology in the primitive church that traces back to Jesus himself. He thus finds in this Synoptic practice a stinging contradiction against the modern critical theory that a high Christology took many decades to develop in the early church and exists only in John among the canonical Gospels. Brazil surveys the Synoptic Gospels in canonical order, exegeting dozens of passages in which OT texts originally referring to YHWH are either clearly or most probably applied to Jesus. He observes the frequency, diversity, and ubiquity of the practice, as well as its wide range of OT source material and its parallel to the NT practice of applying OT messianic texts to Jesus. And from the data he offers several ramifications, including the early deliberate employment of YHWH-texts to Jesus, the likelihood that Jesus is the source of the practice, the high Christology of the Synoptics, and the redemptive-historical metanarrative that Jesus is the divine interpreter and central figure of the Jewish Scriptures. Ultimately, Brazil argues that understanding the prolific application of OT YHWH-texts to Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels cannot be neglected without truncating genuine NT Christology
OP 248
CN BT198
SN 978-0-567-71397-1
K1 Jesus Christ : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Bible : New Testament : Relation to the Old Testament
K1 Bible : Gospels : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 God : Name : Biblical teaching
K1 Jesus Christ : Person and offices
K1 Bible. Gospels
K1 Biblical studies & exegesis
K1 New Testaments
DO 10.5040/9780567713971