A Narrative Theology of the New Testament: Exploring the Metanarrative of Exile and Restoration (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament) - Softcover

Eskola, Timo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3161562216 ISBN 13: 9783161562211

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2018

Synopsis

Focusing on the metanarrative of exile and restoration Timo Eskola claims that a post-liberal, narrative New Testament theology is both consistent and explanative. Combining a post-New Quest perspective on Jesus with an eschatological reading of Paul, the author states that Jesus' temple criticism aims at restoration eschatology. Jesus starts a priestly community that expects God's jubilee to begin with Jesus' work, and proceed with the preaching of the new gospel. The reception of this message in the post-Easter church results in resurrection Christology that proclaims Jesus' Davidic kingship on God's throne of glory. Both Paul and Jewish Christian teachers later present Christ's community as a new temple where believers serve the Lord as priests of the new covenant. Furthermore, restoration eschatology provides a new basis for understanding Paul's contrast with the words of the law, and his teaching of justification.

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Review:

"A Narrative Theology of the New Testament has the potential to generate helpful and meaningful conversations not only about the temple motif and the exile and restoration eschatology but also about narrative methodology, intertextuality, the theological content and formation of Jesus's teaching and message, its relation to the Old Testament and Second Temple writings, and its appropriation by the early Christian theologians." --Abson Joseph, Indiana Wesleyan University, Review of Biblical Literature 8.3.2017

About this edition

• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3161562216
• ISBN 13: 9783161562211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 477