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3 - Jesus in the Fourfold Gospel

from Part I - Origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
J. Tyler Brown  and
Nathan Eubank
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

Despite its familiarity, the fourfold canonical gospel presents a challenge for interpreters, captured in the famous symbols of the evangelists. Mark’s Jesus embodies the paradox of the crucified king of Israel. Matthew adds to this a portrait of Jesus the Prophet-like-Moses and Davidic shepherd who renews Israel’s covenant. Luke presents Jesus as Lord and prophet who brings redemption and distinctively champions the poor. John’s Jesus is the Word from the beginning and glorified Son of the Father. These subsequently canonized gospels stand out as authoritative amidst proliferating Jesus books. An approach that respects the fourfold gospel’s catholicity as well as its holding together of tensions in the historical impact of Jesus of Nazareth on his followers may be a fruitful path toward perceiving the one Jesus in the canonical Four.

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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 44 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Allison, Dale C. 2013. The New Moses: A Matthean Typology. Eugene: Wipf & Stock.Google Scholar
Bauckham, Richard. 2017. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
Becker, Eve-Marie, Bond, Helen K., and Williams, Catrin H., eds. 2021. John’s Transformation of Mark. London: T & T Clark.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bockmuehl, Markus. 2022. “Being Emmanuel: Matthew’s Ever-Present Jesus?” NTS 68: 1–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frey, Jörg. 2018. The Glory of the Crucified One: Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel. Translated by Wayne Coppins and Christoph Heilig. The Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity Series. Waco: Baylor University Press.Google Scholar
Gathercole, Simon. 2022. The Gospel and the Gospels: Christian Proclamation and Early Jesus Books. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar
Hengel, Martin. 2000. The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigation of the Collection and Origin of the Canonical Gospels. London: SCM.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rowe, C. Kavin. 2006. Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke. BZNW 139. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thiessen, Matthew. 2020. Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic.Google Scholar
Watson, Francis. 2013. Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.Google Scholar

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