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Jesus of Nazareth:
Savior, Lord, or Wisdom Teacher?
Charles W. Hedrick & Hal Taussig
Generally speaking, Christianity emphasizes Jesus as Savior or Lord, and finds his importance in stressing one of the following: his saving death, his powerful deeds, or his prophetic social program. On the other hand much recent scholarship, including the Jesus Seminar, has seen Jesus as a teacher of wisdom and part of a larger tradition of wisdom teaching in the ancient Mediterranean world. What difference does this change in perspective make for an understanding of the historical Jesus? This JSOR explores the ancient and contemporary significance of Jesus as wisdom teacher.
LECTURE
Jesus, the Peasant Sage
The importance of ancient wisdom traditions for understanding the historical Jesus
Part one: Comparing ancient wisdom traditions to other mythic/heroic traditions
Part two: The language of faith: comparing the idiom of Jesus to the theologians’ gospel
Friday, 7:30-9 P.M.
WORKSHOPS
The quips of Jesus
Finding wisdom in hyperbole, humor, and ambiguity
Saturday, 9:30-10:30 NOON
Jesus’s wisdom and the social upheaval
of his Galilean setting
Saturday, 11 A.M.-12:00 NOON
Parables
Finding wisdom in open-ended fictional narratives about the ordinary
Saturday 3-4 P.M.
The promise of the wisdom of Jesus
for making
contemporary meanings
in a (post) modern world
Saturday 3-4 P.M.
Hal Taussig (Ph.D., The Union Institute) is Visiting Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary, NYC, Professor of Early Christianity at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, and co-pastor at the Chestnut Hill United Methodist Church. His several books include Jesus Before God (1999) and A New Spiritual Home (2006).
Charles W. Hedrick (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School) is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. A member of the UNESCO team of scholars who reconstructed and translated the Nag Hammadi Codices, he is the author of several books, including The Gospel of the Savior (with Paul Mirecki, 1999) and editor of When Faith Meets Reason (2008).
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