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The ascension of the Messiah in Lukan christology
- Title
- The ascension of the Messiah in Lukan christology / by A.W. Zwiep.
- Author
- Zwiep, A. W. (Arie Wilhelm), 1964-
- Publication
- Leiden ; New York : Brill, ©1997.
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- Description
- xiii, 291 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Building on the form-critical assessment of the Lukan ascension story (Lk 24:50-53; Acts 1:1-12) as a rapture story (Entrückungserzählung), 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 the heathen rapture stories (the issues of 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, etc). It is shown that the Jewish rapture speculations had evolved into a more or less fixed narration pattern, the constituent parts of which are: period of final instructions preceding the rapture (in some cases 40 days) - rapture (includes the conventional rapture terminology and motifs) - a period of temporary preservation in heaven - eschatological return. In first-century Judaism a rapture was understood as a divine act of temporary withdrawal to God of a privileged figure for an eschatological task. It is argued (1) that pre-Christian (or at least pre-Lukan) Judaism provides a more plausible horizon of understanding for the interpretation of the ascension of Jesus than the Graeco-Roman rapture tradition (whereby the ascension is an integral part of the 'rapture-preservation paradigm'), and (2) that Luke develops his 'rapture christology' not as a reinterpretation of the primitive exaltation kerygma (as G. Lohfink argues), but as a response to the eschatological question, i.e. the delay of the parousia, so as so to secure the unity of salvation history. The appendix contains a discussion of the text of the ascension story (in response to M.C. Parsons, Boismard-Lamouille et alii).
- Series Statement
- Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; v. 87
- Uniform Title
- Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 87.
- Subjects
- Jesus Christus / Himmelfahrt
- Jésus-Christ > Ascension
- Jesus > Ascension > Biblical teaching
- Lukas Evangelist, Heiliger
- Jesus Christ
- Bible > New Testament > Évangiles > Luc > critique, interprétation, etc
- New Testament > Luke > Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Bibel > Lukasevangelium
- Bibel > Lukanisches Doppelwerk
- Himmelfahrt Jesu
- Bibel > Altes Testament
- Bible > Acts > Theology
- Bible > Luke > Theology
- Resurrection (Jewish theology)
- Christologie
- Hemelvaart van Jezus
- Lucas (bijbelboek)
- Handelingen der Apostelen (bijbelboek)
- Frühjudentum
- Entrückung
- Theology
- Ascension of Jesus Christ
- Rapture (Christian eschatology) > Biblical teaching
- Note
- A revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Durham, 1996.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-259) and indexes.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Forschungsbericht -- Ch. 2. Rapture-Preservation in Early Jewish Sources -- Ch. 3. The Rapture Christology of Luke-Acts (I) -- Ch. 4. Resurrection, Exaltation and Ascension in Early Christianity -- Ch. 5. Resurrection, Exaltation and Ascension in Luke-Acts -- Ch. 6. The Rapture Christology of Luke-Acts (II).
- ISBN
- 9004108971
- 9789004108974
- LCCN
- 97173386
- OCLC
- ocm37177543
- 37177543
- SCSB-537700
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library