MA Intensive: Jesus in the New Testament – Current Issues in New Testament Scholarship

with Paul Trebilco

This unit focuses on the way the New Testament presents the person of Jesus and issues in current scholarship associated with New Testament Christology. We will consider the portrait of Jesus in some key New Testament texts – the Gospels of Mark and of John, the writings of Paul, and the Book of Revelation. What do these books regard as the important features of who Jesus is? We will also look at some key titles used of Jesus. We will consider study of ‘the historical Jesus’ – what can we know about Jesus as a figure of history, and about his ministry, its aims and outcome. We will also discuss some important themes or areas of study related to our topic, such as the way belief about Jesus developed in the very early years of the Church and belief in Jesus’ resurrection.