Gospel Images of Jesus Christ in Church Tradition and in Biblical Scholarship

This collection of essays contains the papers given at the Fifth International East-West Symposium of New Testament Scholars in Minsk (Belarus). The symposium was a project of the Eastern Europe Liaison Committee of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Main subject matters of the volume are the history and methodological questions of modern Jesus research, approaches to the Jesus of history in ancient and modern Christian exegesis, Jesus as a Jew in ancient and modern exegesis, and the portraits of Jesus in Luke and John. The authors of these papers deal with the parables of Jesus, with his Galilean ministry, with the passion narrative in Mark and with the death of Christ according to Paul's letters. All topics are discussed from a »Western« (Protestant and Roman-Catholic) exegetical perspective as well as from an Orthodox point of view. A concluding report recapitulates the group discussions and seminar sessions of the symposium. Contributors: Charalampos Atmatzidis, Reimund Bieringer, Predrag Dragutinović, Carl R. Holladay, Christos Karakolis, Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz, Ulrich Luz, Joel Marcus, Vasile Mihoc, Tobias Nicklas, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Marius Reiser, Armand Puig i Tàrrech, Sviatoslav Rogalsky, Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni, Konstantinos Th. ZarrasPreface
Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: Introduction

I Biblical Scholarship in Russia and Belarus
Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Slutsk: Church Life and Biblical Scholarship in Belarus. An Opening Lecture - Sviatoslav Rogalsky: A Historical Overview of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Biblical Scholarship

II Papers from the symposium
Ulrich Luz: Jesus from a Western Perspective. State of Research. Methodology - Charalampos Atmatzidis: The Historical Jesus: State of Research and Methodological Questions from an Orthodox Perspective - Marius Reiser: Jesus-Research from the Enlightenment until Today - Vasile Mihoc: How Did the Church Fathers Understand the History of Jesus? - Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni: Jesus in the view of Luke - Reimund Bieringer: »… because the Father is greater than I« (John 14:28). Johannine Christology in Light of the Relationship Between the Father and the Son - Konstantinos Th. Zarras: Beyond Jesus the Jew: Old Visions Meet Modern Challenges - Joel Marcus: Jesus the Jew in Recent Western Scholarship

III Contributions from the Seminars
Armand Puig i Tàrrech: Interpreting the Parables of Jesus. A Test Case: The Parable of the lost Sheep - Predrag Dragutinović: The Parables: A Theological Approach. Reading Parables in the Context of Today's Orthodox Church - Carl R. Holladay: Jesus and His Followers in Galilee: Albert Schweitzer's Reconstruction - Carl R. Holladay: Jesus' Ministry in Galilee in Matthew 8−10 - Tobias Nicklas: The Crucified Christ and the Silence of God. Thoughts on the Christology of the Gospel of Mark - Dominika A. Kurek-Chomycz: Performing the Passion, Embodying Proclamation: The Story of Jesus' Passion in the Pauline Letters?

IV Discussion
Christos Karakolis: Group Discussion: Summaries and Reflections - Urs von Arx: Notes from the Group Discussion