Seeing the Lord’s Glory: Kyriocentric Visions and the Dilemma of Early Christology

Abbreviations vii
Deity Christology in a Jewish Context 1
Part I. Kyriocentric Visions in the Context of Crisis and Performative
Prayer
Kyriocentric Visions in Early Judaism: Experiential, Literary,
or Performative?
1. 25
Motifs Associated with Kyriocentric Visions in Apocalyptic
and Early Rabbinic Literature
2. 43
Kyriocentric Prayers and Devotions as the Context for Visions
among Early Disciples of Jesus
3. 81
Part II. Kyriocentric Visions as the Impetus for Early Deity Christology
Conditions under which a Kyriocentric Vision Might Be
Identified with a Deceased Human Being
4. 101
5. Traces of Kyriocentric Visions in the New Testament 121
6. Kyriocentric Prayers and Devotions in the New Testament 149
Part III. Modifications of the Lord-Jesus Identification in the New
Testament and the Early Church
7. Superposing Jesus Traditions and Deity Christology 179
Four Alternative Tradition Histories or Textures in Early
Christology
8. 233
Three Movements that Marginalized Visions of the Anthropic
Form of the Lord
9. 265
Conclusion: Accomplishments and Some Unresolved Issues 303
Bibliography 309
Index of Contemporary Authors 349
Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical Texts