Jesus' death as paradigmatic in the New Testament

Scottish Journal of Theology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 413-433

  Hurtado, L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 62449230775     PISSN: 00369306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003693060400033X     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Relatively recent studies covering the NT broadly include Kenneth Grayston, Dying, We Live: A New Enquiry Into the Death of Christ in the New Testament (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1990)
2. Earlier works include George Smeaton, The Doctrine of the Atonement, as Taught by Christ Himself(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1868)
3. idem, The Doctrine of the Atonement as Taught by the Apostles (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870)
4. and Leon Morris, The Cross in the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1965)
5. On Paul, see e.g. Charles B. Cousar, A Theology of the Cross: The Death of Jesus in the Pauline Letters(Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990)
6. On the Gospel passion narratives, see e.g. Donald Senior's several studies: The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1984)
7. The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1985)
8. The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1989)
9. The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of John (Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1991)
10. Joel B. Green, The Death of Jesus: Tradition and Interpretation in the Passion Narrative(WUNT 2/33; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1988)
11. and now also the detailed commentary on the passion narratives by Raymond E. Brown, The Death of the Messiah (2 vols; New York: Doubleday, 1994)
12. On Peter's death in Rome, see Daniel W. O'Connor, Peter in Rome: The Literary, Liturgical, and Archaeological Evidence (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969)
13. and now H. G. Thümmel, Die Memorien für Petrus und Paulus in Rom: Die archäologischen Denkmäler und die literarische Tradition (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 76; Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1999)
14. The standard review of scholarship on this passage is Ralph P. Martin, A Hymn to Christ: Philippians 2:5-11 in Recent Interpretation and in the Setting of Early Christian Worship (3rd edn; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997)
15. (ET in God and Christ: Existence and Province, ed. R. W Funk [New York: Harper, 1968], 45-88)
16. Among many more recent studies is the essay collection edited by Ralph P. Martin and Brian J. Dodd, Where Christology Began: Essays on Philippians 2 (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998)
17. More broadly, see Stephen E. Fowl, The Story of Christ in the Ethics of Paul: An Analysis of the Function of the Hymnic Material in the Pauline Corpus(JSNTS 36; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990)
18. On 2 Cor. 8:9 see pp. 121-3
19. For analysis of earlier references, see Larry W. Hurtado, 'Pre-70 C.E. Jewish Opposition to Christ-Devotion', Journal of Theological Studies 50 (1999), 35-58
20. Attridge, Hebrews, 399
21. See esp. G. Q. Reijners, The Terminology of the Holy Cross in Early Christian Literature, as Based Upon Old Testament Typology (Graecitas Christianorum Primaeva 2; Nijmegen: Dekker & Van De Vegt, 1965)
22. (1 Peter, 240)!
23. Richard Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1993), 228-9
24. Cf. G. K. Beale, The Book of Revelation(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999), 438, who sees the focus of Rev 7:14 on Jesus' redemptive death, though he allows that the phrasing 'may be intentionally ambiguous and may also suggest that their endurance through suffering is being modelled on Christ's'
25. and Henry Barclary Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John (London: Macmillan, 1908; repr. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, n.d.), 103
26. Bauckham, Climax, 228-9. The essay from which I quote here is a stimulating discussion of the distinctive adaptation of 'holy war' imagery in Revelation, all the more timely for us who now face a very different kind of 'martyr' whose victory consists, not in his/her own death, but in killing as many others as possible! It would be a failure of nerve for Christian and Jewish scholars not to complain about the hijacking of the terms 'martyr' and 'martyrdom' by some violent groups today
27. John S. Pobee, Persecution and Martyrdom in the Theology of Paul (JSNTS 6; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985)
28. See F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd edn; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), s.v. 'Stigmatization'
29. See e.g. C. F. D. Moule, The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), 75-8
30. Eduard Lohse, Colossians and Philemon (Hermeneia; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1971), 68-72
31. On this, see esp. R. Tannehill, Dying and Rising with Christ: A Study in Pauline Theology (Berlin: A. Töpelmann, 1967), 74-129