- Thursday, March 30, 2023
- 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
- Meeter Center Lecture Hall
“Who is this person Jesus?”
This question is posed not only among the people that Jesus interacts with in the Gospel narratives, but it is taken up throughout the New Testament. To answer this question, the early followers of Jesus drew from Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions and titles to help them understand and articulate who Jesus was and is. Drawing from the speaker's upcoming publication, Origins of New Testament Christology (March 2023), this presentation demonstrates the importance of these sacred traditions for our understanding of the New Testament’s portrayal of Jesus while illustrating the various techniques that the authors used to make sense of these traditions in light of Christ. Special attention will be given to Jewish traditions of the figure of Adam and how the New Testament casts Jesus as a new, or second, Adam.
Bryan R. Dyer (PhD, McMaster Divinity College) is senior acquisitions editor at Baker Academic and adjunct faculty of religion at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of Suffering in the Face of Death and the co-editor of Paul and Ancient Rhetoric and The Bible and Social Justice.
Sponsored by the Department of Religion
