As an untutored lay person I greatly appreciated 'Jesus among the Gods' to read within conjunction with both Jipp and Simon Gathercole, not to mention Andrei Orlov. Listening to my academic betters critique the work I'm happy to say my comprehension of the contents was good, though far less critical. I would also echo David White's comment about MFB's breezy humor and I laughed out loud several times in the midst of such weighty subject matter. The book is an excellent catalogue and resource to return to, and clearly a thought provoking one as well.
In Jipps response at around 16 minutes, in the both / and of Jesus being like Greco-Roman deities and in terms of content being like YHWH… could you one say that Jesus is framed in language and constructs familiar to a Greco-Roman audience, but the narrative and content is Jewish? If so, this would make sense in trying to communicate to a Greco-Roman audience in a familiar way and fill that with new meaning. I believe Westfall mentions this sort of methodology in her God and Gender book.
Thank you, Nijay, for organizing this discussion.
As an untutored lay person I greatly appreciated 'Jesus among the Gods' to read within conjunction with both Jipp and Simon Gathercole, not to mention Andrei Orlov. Listening to my academic betters critique the work I'm happy to say my comprehension of the contents was good, though far less critical. I would also echo David White's comment about MFB's breezy humor and I laughed out loud several times in the midst of such weighty subject matter. The book is an excellent catalogue and resource to return to, and clearly a thought provoking one as well.
In Jipps response at around 16 minutes, in the both / and of Jesus being like Greco-Roman deities and in terms of content being like YHWH… could you one say that Jesus is framed in language and constructs familiar to a Greco-Roman audience, but the narrative and content is Jewish? If so, this would make sense in trying to communicate to a Greco-Roman audience in a familiar way and fill that with new meaning. I believe Westfall mentions this sort of methodology in her God and Gender book.