The Son of Man Debate: A History and Evaluation (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 11
PREFACE......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
Overview of the debate......Page 19
The son of Anthropos......Page 22
The son of the human......Page 23
The son of Mary......Page 24
The son of Adam......Page 25
Evaluation......Page 27
2 THE HUMAN SON OF MAN......Page 29
The lowly human Son of Man......Page 30
Lowliness of class: man of the lower classes......Page 31
Lowliness by contrast......Page 32
The pre-eminent man......Page 33
The ideal man......Page 34
The human Son of Man in the twentieth century......Page 35
Evaluation......Page 36
3 THE APOCALYPTIC/MESSIANIC SON OF MAN......Page 38
The triumph of Daniel 7.13......Page 39
The human messianic Son of Man......Page 41
The Enochic Son of Man......Page 42
The heavenly Messiah......Page 43
Date of the Similitudes......Page 45
Disputed issues......Page 47
Son of Man as a titular self-designation......Page 48
A proleptic self-designation......Page 49
A borrowed self-designation......Page 50
Son of Man as a corporate entity......Page 51
Son of Man as a Messiah other than Jesus......Page 53
Son of Man as language of the church......Page 55
5 THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY......Page 59
Only non-apocalyptic sayings authentic......Page 60
Only apocalyptic sayings authentic......Page 61
Proleptic or hidden Son of Man......Page 62
A revised Son of Man......Page 63
A Danielic son of man who suffers......Page 64
Unifying theme......Page 65
No sayings authentic......Page 66
Psychological considerations......Page 67
Historical considerations......Page 68
Critical analysis of the Gospel traditions......Page 69
Ezekiel's son of man as prophet......Page 73
Ezekiel's son of man as lowly human......Page 74
Ezekiel's son of man as ideal human......Page 75
Son of man in the Psalms......Page 76
Son of Man as Primal Man......Page 77
The Son of Man as the Son of God......Page 78
Apocalyptic Son of God......Page 79
Son of Man as a circumlocution......Page 80
The Johannine Son of Man......Page 81
The nineteenth-century consensus......Page 84
The twentieth-century consensus......Page 85
Qumran and the Similitudes of Enoch......Page 86
1. Date......Page 87
2. Provenance......Page 88
No unified pre-Christian Son of Man concept......Page 89
Exit the apocalyptic Son of Man......Page 91
Pre-Christian Son of Man defended......Page 92
Apocalyptic Son of Man created by Jesus......Page 94
Apocalyptic Son of Man created by church......Page 95
Non-apocalyptic Son of Man......Page 97
Phase 1: 1557–1835......Page 98
Phase 2: 1894–1966......Page 100
Phase 3: 1967–......Page 102
Phase 1: 248–1792......Page 103
Phase 2: 1896–1967......Page 105
Phase 3: 1967–......Page 106
Critique......Page 108
Evaluation......Page 112
9 SON OF MAN IN APOCALYPTIC AND RABBINIC TEXTS......Page 113
Daniel 7.13 in 1 Enoch 37–70......Page 114
Daniel 7.13 in 1 Enoch 71......Page 117
Daniel 7.13 in 4 Ezra 13......Page 118
The vision as independent......Page 119
Pseudo-Ezra's interpretation......Page 122
The man: a heavenly being?......Page 124
A common model: George Nickelsburg......Page 125
Common assumptions: John Collins and Thomas Slater......Page 127
Daniel 7.13 in rabbinic literature......Page 130
Summary and conclusion......Page 134
10 CONCLUSIONS......Page 137
APPENDIX: SURVEYS OF RESEARCH ON "THE SON OF MAN''......Page 141
REFERENCES......Page 142
Hebrew Bible......Page 178
Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha......Page 179
New Testament......Page 180
Rabbinic literature......Page 181
Modern authors......Page 182
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 190