The ascension of the Messiah in Lukan christology / / by A.W. Zwiep.

• Superior document: Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 87
• Author: Zwiep, A. W.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : Brill.; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 87.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)
• Notes: A Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Durham, 1996.

Building on the form-critical assessment of the Lukan ascension story (LK 24:50-53; Acts 1:1-12) as a rapture story, and motivated by the consideration that the 'monotheistic principle' almost inevitably must have led to a reestimate of the meaning and function of rapture in comparison with heathen rapture stories (immortalisation and deification!), the present study seeks to investigate the Lukan ascension story in the light of the first-century Jewish rapture traditions (Enoch, Elijah, Moses, Baruch, Ezra, et cetera). The author argues that first-century Judaism provides a more plausible horizon of understanding for the ascension story than the Graeco-Roman rapture tradition, and that Luke develops his 'rapture christology' not as a reinterpretation of the primitive exaltation kerygma (G. Lohfink), but as a response to the eschatological question, id est the delay of the parousia, so as to secure the unity of salvation history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / A.W. Zwiep -- Forschungsbericht / A.W. Zwiep -- Rapture-Preservation in Early Jewish Sources / A.W. Zwiep -- The Rapture Christology of Luke-Acts (I) / A.W. Zwiep -- Resurrection, Exaltation and Ascension in Early Christianity / A.W. Zwiep -- Resurrection, Exaltation and Ascension in Luke-Acts / A.W. Zwiep -- The Rapture Christology of Luke-Acts (11) / A.W. Zwiep -- Summary, Final Remarks and Conclusions / A.W. Zwiep -- Bibliographies / A.W. Zwiep -- Index of Passages / A.W. Zwiep -- Index of Modern Authors / A.W. Zwiep.