The Son of Man in Myth and History

by Frederick Houk Borsch

Overview

"Borsch has not answered all the questions, of course. Who can? But his view of the Man tradition makes more sense to me than, for example, Perrin's rather cavalier dismissal of the evidence, and it not only enlightens but also enlivens the discussion. As against the extreme skeptics, Borsch is also convincing to me in arguing the case for a large measure of authenticity in the Son of man tradition in the Gospels. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the book constantly calls me back to its pages for insight regarding the problem, both in its historical dimension and in its bearing upon the meaning of Jesus of Nazareth for faith today. --'Theology' "The author is well aware of the difficulties involved in entering a field wherein so much investigation has been done. And of this, with the positive and negative conclusions, he gives an excellent survey, crisp and critical . . . . The lines opened up will engage the attention of a new and more positive chapter in the form-critical argument. --'London Quarterly and Holborn Review'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725218406
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
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About the Author

Frederick H. Borsch is the retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Professor of New Testament and Chair of Anglican Studies at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He is also the former Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University. His other books include 'The Spirit Searches Everything: Keeping Life's Questions', 'The Bible's Authority in Today's Church', 'Introducing the Lessons of the Church Year: A Guide for Lay Readers and Congregartions', and 'The Christian and Gnostic Son of Man'.
Frederick H. Borsch is the retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Professor of New Testament and Chair of Anglican Studies at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He is also the former Dean of the Chapel at Princeton University. His other books include The Spirit Searches Everything: Keeping Life's Questions, The Bible's Authority in Today's Church, Introducing the Lessons of the Church Year: A Guide for Lay Readers and Congregartions, and The Son of Man in Myth and History.

Table of Contents

Preface     9
Abbreviations     11
The Problem     15
Its Outlines     15
Proposed Solutions     21
Dissociation of Jesus from the use of Son of Man as a title     21
Deletion of one or more of the classifications of sayings     33
More comprehensive answers     46
The First Man     55
The Man Hero in the Centuries surrounding Christian Origins     55
According to Hippolytus     56
According to Irenaeus     58
Poimandres     59
The Apocryphon of John     61
Nag-Hamadi     62
Manichaeanism     66
The Mandaeans     67
Jewish and Jewish-Christian sects     67
Rabbinic evidence     68
Late Jewish literature     63
Impressions and Proposed Answers     68
Iranian Sources     75
Anthropos - Iran - Son of Man?     84
The Royal Man     89
First Man and King     89
The Royal Rites     90
Near Eastern Sources     96
The King in Jerusalem     106
Second Isaiah's Servant and Zechariah     125
The Man inLater Judaism     132
The Continuity of Ideas     132
Eschatology and Creation     135
Ezekiel and Daniel     137
I Enoch     145
II Esdras, II Enoch, The Testament of Levi, etc.     156
The Rabbis and Philo     167
The Man in Sectarian Life     174
Back to the Starting-point     174
Eleven Areas for Study     177
'I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom'     177
Mithraism     181
The Naassenes     181
Further gnostic views     184
The pseudo-Clementines     187
The Odes of Solomon     188
I and II Enoch and the Testament of Levi     199
The Life of Adam and Eve     200
Baptizing sectarianism: Monoimus, Simon Magus, Elkasaites, etc.     201
The Mandaeans     206
Early Christianity     216
Hypothesis     218
The Essenes, Qumran and John the Baptist     219
Remaining Problems     225
Paul's Second Man     232
Acts, Hebrews and Revelation     232
Paul     240
The Johannine Son of Man     257
Problems of the Gospel      257
Explanatory Theories     259
Related Issues and John 3.13     265
The Johannine Sayings     278
The Synoptic Son of Man     314
Survey     314
The Sayings     320
The Son of Man on earth     320
The suffering and resurrection     329
The heavenly Son of Man     353
Related Observations     365
The baptism     365
The temptation     370
Elijah and the Son of Man     372
At Caesarea Philippi     377
The transfiguration     382
Bread and water miracles     387
Mark 10.32-45     389
Mark 14.62     391
Mark 12.35ff     394
Corporateness     397
'As it is written'     400
Recapitulation     402
Index of Modem Authors     427
Index of References     431
Old Testament     431
Other Ancient Near Eastern Sources     435
Iranian Sources     436
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha     436
Josephus, Philo, Rabbinic Literature     439
Gospel Son of Man Sayings     440
New Testament     441
Early Church Literature and Fathers     446
Gnostic and Related Materials     447