Judge Jesus: Approaching Jesus’s Messianic Judgeship in the Gospel of John from an Early Jewish Perspective
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
How do you understand the messianic judgeship of Jesus? Interpreting certain themes in the Gospels is often done through a twenty-first-century Western perspective. Judge Jesus will seek to help a modern reader of the Gospel of John see the concept of Jesus’s messianic judgeship through the eyes of a first-century Jewish audience. Judge Jesus will explore how the themes of judgment and messianic expectation throughout Early Judaism impacted how John’s Jewish audience would have understood the words of his Gospel. As a twenty-first-century interpreter of the Gospel of John, your studies will be greatly enhanced as you start to see these themes in the same way that John's Jewish audience originally understood the words that he wrote.
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- Helps a modern reader of the Gospel of John see the concept of Jesus’s messianic.
- Explores how the themes of judgment would have understood the words of his Gospel.
- Provides helpful information for an often-overlooked aspect of the Johannine Jesus.
Jeremiah Stallman’s study of Jesus as Judge in John’s Gospel offers the reader a blend of grammatical, theological, and historical approaches. He attempts to reveal how insights from Second Temple Jewish literature shed fresh light on John’s presentation of Jesus. As a result, this book provides helpful information for an often-overlooked aspect of the Johannine Jesus. Utilizing a host of materials to make his case, Stallman offers an opportunity to reevaluate this popular Gospel.
—Leo Percer, John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, Liberty University
The Messianic plot twist of John’s Gospel can be found in the phrase ‘Son of Man.’ By tracing its themes through early Jewish literature, Jeremiah Stallman shows how this title, ripe with cultural and theological expectations, was strategically used by the apostle to shock the religious establishment of his day. Judge Jesus enriches the modern reader’s appreciation of Jesus’s judicio-redemptive identity and his unique authority over Jews and gentiles, the living and the dead.
—Tyler Scarlett, Pastor-Teacher, Forest Baptist Church, Virginia
- Title: Judge Jesus: Approaching Jesus’s Messianic Judgeship in the Gospel of John from an Early Jewish Perspective
- Author: Jeremiah L. Stallman
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 174
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781725298439, 1725298430
- Resource ID: LLS:JDGJSSJWPRSPCTV
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-02T23:19:23Z