The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man

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Fortress Press - Religion - 356 pages
A thorny historical issue handled with artistry and imagination The epithet "the son of the man" (or "the Human Being") in the Gospels has been a highly debated topic. Wink uses this phrase to explore not only early Christology but the anthropology articulated in the Gospels. Jesus apparently avoided designations such as Messiah, Son of God, or God, though these titles were given by his disciples after his death and resurrection. But Jesus is repeatedly depicted as using the obscure expression "the Human Being" as virtually his only form of self- reference. Wink explores how Jesus' self-referential phrase came to be universalized as the "Human Being" or "Truly Human One." The Human Being is a catalytic agent for transformation, providing the form and lure and hunger to become who we were meant to be, or more properly perhaps, to become who we truly are.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Original Impulse of Jesus
5
THE HUMAN BEING IN THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS
7
B The Myth of God Incarnate versus the Myth of the Human Jesus
9
C The Myth of History
12
DJesus Original Impulse
13
The Anthropic Revelation The Human Being
17
THE ENIGMA OF THE SON OF THE MAN
19
THE HUMAN BEING CATALYST OF HUMAN TRANSFORMATION
151
A Ascension
152
B Into an Archetypal Image
154
THE HUMAN BEING APOCALYPTIC VERSUS ESCHATOLOGY
158
B Was Jesus on Apocalypticism
161
APOCALYPTIC 1 THE HUMAN BEING COMES
166
2427 par
167
23 and 1628
171

A The Human Being in Ezehiel
22
B Ezekiels Vision
25
FEUERBACHS CHALLENGE
35
A Evaluating Feuerbach
36
B On Anthropomorphism
41
C Me Are the Seer and the Seen
45
D From Feuerbach to Berdyayev
47
OTHER BIBLICAL AND EXTRABIBLICAL REFERENCES TO THE HUMAN BEING UP TO 100 CE
50
CI Enoch 14
51
E Ezekiel the Tragedian
54
F The Dead Sea Scrolls
55
H 4 Ezra
59
J Conclusion
61
The Human Being PreEaster Sayings
63
JESUS AND THE HUMAN BEING
67
B The Healing of the Parolytic
74
C Foxes Hove Dens
80
D Blasphemy against the Human Being
83
E A Glutton and a Drunkard
86
F The Human Being Refuses Signs40
90
G The Human Being
92
H The Human Being Seeks and Saves the Lost
97
I The Human Being Must Suffer
98
J And Be Killed
104
K Conclusion
111
JESUS AND THE MESSIANIC HOPE
113
A Peters Obsession
116
B Johns Question to Jesus
118
C Exorcising by the Finger of God
119
E Plucking Groin on the Sabbath
120
G The Rich Fool
121
H Jesus Temptation
122
PROJECTION AND THE MESSIANIC HOPE
128
A Breaking Messianic Projections
132
B Incarnating God
138
Shatterer of Projections
140
D Projection and Inflation
145
The Human Being PostEaster Sailings
149
24 Matt 2427
172
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173
APOCALYPTIC 2 THE HUMAN BEING JUDGES
177
A Acknowledging the Human Being
181
B Judging the Twelve Tribes
183
D The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds
186
APOCALYPTIC 3 The Future of the Human Being
188
A The Eclipse of the Human Being
189
B The Recovery of the Human Being
191
THE HUMAN BEING OF JOHN
198
B Exaltation through Execution
203
THE HUMAN BEING IN LETTERS ASCRIBED TO PAUL
207
A The Inner Anthropos
208
B The Body of Christ
209
C In Christ
210
The Human Being in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism
213
THE HUMAN BEING IN JEWISH MYSTICISM
215
A God as Human in Jewish Mysticism
216
B EnochMetalron and the Human Being in Jewish Mysticism
224
C Ascended Humans in Jewish Mysticism
225
D Conclusion
229
THE HUMAN BEING IN GNOSTICISM
231
A The Human Being in the Nag Hammadi Library
233
B The Orthodox Theologians Reports about the Gnostics
241
C The Human Being in Poimandres
244
D Conclusion
245
Results and Conclusions
249
B Will the Real Human Being Please Stand Up?
251
C The Human Being
257
Has There a Primal Man Myth?
261
Philo on the Archetypes
264
Ezekiels Influence on Jesus
267
Glossary
270
Notes
272
Index of Ancient Sources
341
Index of Authors
352
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