The Development of Christology during the First Hundred Years

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xii, 200 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Charles H. Talbert, Ph.D. in Biblical Studies, Vanderbilt University, is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA. He has published extensively on the Gospels and Paul, most recently Ephesians and Collossians and Matthew in the Paideia New Testament Commentary series issued by Baker Academic.

Readership

Those interested in ancient Mediterranean religions, Greco-Roman, Jewish, and early Christian, and their mutual contributions to one another.

PART ONE: SYNTHESIS
Chapter 1 The Development of Christology in the First 100 Years: A Modest Proposal

PART TWO: BUILDING BLOCKS
Chapter 2 The Problem of Pre-Existence in Philippians 2:6-11
Chapter 3 The Concept of Immortals in Mediterranean Antiquity
Chapter 4 The Myth of a Descending-Ascending Redeemer in Mediterranean Antiquity
Chapter 5 The Gospel and the Gospels
Chapter 6 Expository Article: Luke 1:26-31
Chapter 7 And the Word Became Flesh: When?
Chapter 8 The Christology of the Apocalypse
Chapter 9 Miraculous Conceptions and Births in Mediterranean Antiquity

Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources

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