Martin Hengel

Anna Maria Schwemer

Siegfried Mittmann

English summary: This book is a collection of articles from a Tubingen symposium held by professors of the Universities of Strasbourg, Tubingen and Uppsala in 1998. This collection was preceded by the symposium volumes 'Le Trone de Dieu/Der Thron Gottes/The Throne of God' (1993) and 'La Main de Dieu/Die Hand Gottes/The Hand of God' (1997). The articles deal with the complex subject of 'The City of God' from the aspects of the history of the Oriental, Hellenistic-Jewish and Islamic religions, biblical exegesis and patristics and of synagogal and Christian iconography. German description: Ce livre rassemble des contributions presentees par des professeurs des universites de Strasbourg, de Tubingen et d'Uppsala a un colloque qui eut lieu a Tubingen en 1998. Il fait suite a des volumes de colloques sur 'Le Trone de Dieu' (1993) et sur 'La Main de Dieu' (1997).Les articles traitent le sujet complexe de la 'Cite de Dieu' sous des aspects d'histoire des religions orientale, juive-hellenistique et islamique, d'exegese biblique, de patristique et d'iconographies synagogale et chretienne. Das Buch versammelt die Beitrage eines Tubinger Symposiums von Wissenschaftlern der Universitaten Strassburg, Tubingen und Uppsala im Jahre 1998. Dem Sammelwerk gingen die Symposionsbande 'Le Trone de Dieu/ Der Thron Gottes' (1993) und 'La Main de Dieu/Die Hand Gottes' (1997) voraus.Die Studien behandeln das komplexe Thema der 'Stadt Gottes' unter Aspekten der orientalischen, hellenistisch-judischen und islamischen Religionsgeschichte, der Bibelexegese und Patristik, der synagogalen und christlichen Ikonographie.

La cité de Dieu

"The debate over the extent of Jewish influence upon early Christianity rages on. At the heart of this argument lies the question of Jesus: how does the fate of a first-century Galilean Jew inspire and determine the nature, shape, and practices of a distinct religious movement? Vital to this first question is another equally challenging one: can the four Gospels be used to reconstruct the historical Jesus? In Jesus and Judaism, Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer seek to untangle the complex relationships among Jesus, Judaism, and the Gospels in the earliest Christian movement. Jesus and Judaism, the first in a four-volume series, focuses on the person of Jesus in the context of Judaism. Beginning with his Galilean origin, the volume analyzes Jesus' relationship with John the Baptist and the Jewish context of Jesus' life and work. Hengel and Schwemer argue that there never was a nonmessianic Jesus. Rather, his messianic claim finds expression in his relationship to the Baptist, his preaching in authority, his deeds of power, and his crucifixion as king of the Jews, and in the emergence of the earliest Christology. As Hengel and Schwemer reveal, Jesus was not only a devout Jew, nor merely a miracle worker, but the essential part of the earliest form of Christianity. Hengel and Schwemer insist that Jesus belongs within the history of early Christianity, rather than as its presupposition. Christianity did not begin after Jesus' death; Christianity began as soon as a Jew from Galilee started to preach the word of God."--

Anna Maria Schwemer

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