Corpus Christologicum

Texts and Translations for the Study of Jewish Messianism and Early Christology

GREGORY R. LANIER

an imprint of Hendrickson Publishing Group

Corpus Christologicum: Texts and Translations for the Study of Jewish Messianism and Early Christology

© 2021 by Gregory R. Lanier

Published by Hendrickson Academic

an imprint of Hendrickson Publishing Group

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ISBN 978-1-68307-180-8

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First Printing—April 2021

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020946395

Cover image is from Papyrus 967, showing Dan. 2:42–48 (P. Köln Theol. 16.13r).

© Papyrussammlung Köln.

Cover design by Karol Bailey.

Contents

Introduction

Overview of Textual Presentation

Selection of Sources

Commentary

Text, Translation, and Apparatus

References

Thematic Tags

Indexes

Full Index

Index by Epithet

Index by Hypostasis

Index by Figure

Index by Metaphor

Index by Attribute

Abbreviations and Key

Hebrew Bible and Versions

Dead Sea Scrolls

Apocrypha

Pseudepigrapha

Philo and Josephus

Other Jewish and Early Christian Writings

References

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Introduction

The question of the “Messiah” has been at the forefront of the ecclesiastical and scholarly study of the religious writings of Judaism and Christianity for centuries. Recent decades have seen an explosion of research on Second Temple Jewish messianism and the roots of early Christology. From modern-day classics like James D. G. Dunn’s Christology in the Making, Larry Hurtado’s Lord Jesus Christ, Richard Bauckham’s God Crucified, John J. Collins’ The Scepter and the Star, and William Horbury’s Jewish Messianism and the Cult of Christ to more recent works by Boyarin, Fletcher-Louis, Gathercole, Kirk, McGrath, Segal, and a host of others, the field of research is alive and well.

Essential to all these efforts is the study of the Second Temple Jewish conceptual world—e.g., expectations of eschatological deliverers, wisdom speculation, angelology—as reflected in extant sources from the period. Indeed, the raw material for everyone working on Jewish messianism and early Christology is the rich set of texts preserved from the time periods prior to, contemporary with, and shortly after the first-century production of the New Testament. One cannot get very far into any monograph or journal article on the development of, say, Davidic messianic ideology without encountering a whole stream of references to writings from Qumran, the Targums, the Pseudepigrapha, and so on. In short, the interpretation, reinterpretation, and comparison of key texts is the air one breathes in this field.

However, it is precisely this robust text orientation that presents ...