Jewish Jesus research and its challenge to Christology today / / by Walter Homolka.

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume 30
• VerfasserIn: Homolka, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2017; 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 30.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Jesus Research: A Reception History -- 2 The Jewish Jesus Quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums -- 3 Reclaimed or Reclaiming? Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus’s Wirkungsgeschichte -- 4 Jewish Quests and Christian Problems -- Conclusion: Implications and Future Perspectives -- Bibliography -- Index.