Judge Jesus: Approaching Jesus’s Messianic Judgeship in the Gospel of John from an Early Jewish Perspective
Ebook
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.
“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
- Authors: Jeremiah L. Stallman, C. Fred Smith
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725298453, 1725298457
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725298453
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-22T14:16:24Z
Jeremiah L. Stallman is an affiliate faculty member at Colorado
Christian University. He holds a PhD in theology and apologetics
from Liberty University.