Jesus of Nazareth

BIBLIOGRAPHY

As explained in the Foreword, this book presupposes historical-critical exegesis and makes use of its findings, but it seeks to transcend this method and to arrive at a genuinely theological interpretation of the scriptural texts. It is not the aim here to enter into the debates of historical-critical research. I have therefore made no attempt to compile a comprehensive Bibliography, which would in any case be impossible. The titles of works cited in the book are briefly indicated in the text in parentheses; full bibliographical details are given below.

First of all, the following texts figure among the more important recent books on Jesus.

Joachim Gnilka. Jesus von Nazareth. Botschaft und Geschichte. Herder, Freiburg, 1990.

Klaus Berger. Jesus. Pattloch, Munich, 2004. On the basis of thorough exegetical knowledge, the author presents the figure and the message of Jesus in dialogue with the questions of the present time.

Heinz Schürmann. Jesus. Gestalt und Geheimnis. Ed. Klaus Scholtissek. Bonifatius, Paderborn, 1994. A collection of essays.

John P. Meier. A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Doubleday, New York, 1991–2001. This several-volume work by an American Jesuit is in many respects a model of historical-critical exegesis, in which the significance and the limits of the method emerge clearly. It is worth reading the review by Jacob Neusner of volume 1, “Who Needs the Historical Jesus?” in: Chronicles, July 1993, pp. 32–34.

Thomas Söding. Der Gottessohn aus Nazareth. Das Menschsein Jesu im Neuen Testament. Herder, Freiburg, 2006. The book does not attempt to reconstruct the historical Jesus, but it presents the faith testimony of the various New Testament writings.

Rudolf Schnackenburg. Jesus in the Gospels: A Biblical Christology. Trans. O. C. Dean Jr. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, 1995. Schnackenburg followed this work, which is quoted in the Foreword of the present book, with a final, small, and very personal publication, Freundschaft mit Jesus (Freiburg, 1995), in which he “puts less emphasis on what can be recognized…than on the effects that Jesus brought about in the souls and hearts of men and women”—thereby, in Schnackenburg’s own words, attempting “a balancing act between reason and experience” (pp. 7f.).

In the exegesis of the Gospels I rely principally on the individual volumes of Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament, which unfortunately remains incomplete.

Extensive material on the Jesus story can be found in the six-volume work La storia di Gesù, Rizzoli, Milan, 1983–85.

Chapter One: The Baptism of Jesus

Paul Evdokimov. The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty. Oakwood Publications, Redondo Beach, Calif., 1990. On the theology of icons and patristic texts.

Joachim Jeremias. “Amnos.” In: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1964, vol. 1, pp. 338–40.

Joachim Gnilka. Das Matthäusevangelium. Erster Teil. Herder, Freiburg, 1986.

Romano Guardini. Das Wesen des Christentums—Die menschliche Wirklichkeit des Herrn. Beiträge zu einer Psychologie Jesu. Matthias Grünewald, Mainz, 1991.

Chapter Two: The Temptations of Jesus

This chapter to a large extent comports with what I wrote in my book Unterwegs zu Jesus Christus (Augsburg, 2003), pp. 84–99, on Jesus’ temptation. Further bibliography is indicated there.

Vladimir Soloviev. The Antichrist. Trans. W. J. Barnes and H. H. Haynes. Floris Classics, Edinburgh, 1982.

Joachim Gnilka. Das Matthäusevangelium. Erster Teil. Herder, Freiburg, 1986.

Chapter Three: The Gospel and the Kingdom of God

Adolf von Harnack. What Is Christianity? Trans. Thomas Bailey Sanders. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1986.

Jürgen Moltmann. Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology. Trans. James W. Leitch. SCM Press Ltd., London, 1967.

Peter Stuhlmacher. Biblische Theologie des Neuen Testaments, vol. 1: Grundlegung. Von Jesus zu Paulus; vol. 2: Von der Paulusschule bis zur Johannesoffenbarung. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1992–99.

Chapter Four: The Sermon on the Mount

Jacob Neusner. A Rabbi Talks with Jesus. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2000.

Joachim Gnilka. Das Matthäusevangelium. Erster Teil. Herder, Freiburg, 1986.

Karl Elliger. Das Buch der zwölf Kleinen Propheten, vol. 2. Vol. 25 of Das Alte Testament Deutsch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1964 (5th ed.).

Erich Dinkler. Signum Crucis. Aufsätze zum Neuen Testament und zur christlichen Archäologie. Mohr, Tübingen, 1967, pp. 1–54 (on the sign tau).

Bernard of Clairvaux. Sermones in Cantica Canticorum, 26:5. See Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs, vol. 2, trans. Kilian Walsh (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1976), p. 63. Cf. on this text and its background Henri de Lubac, Histoire et Esprit. L’Intelligence de l’Ecriture selon Origène (Paris, 1950).

For Friedrich Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity, on which an extensive literature exists, I refer to Henri de Lubac, The Drama of Atheist Humanism, trans. Edith M. Riley (Cleveland, 1963), esp. pp. 18–60.

For the section “Compromise and Prophetic Radicalism” I am indebted for the essential insights to two hitherto unpublished essays that Professor Olivier Artus prepared for the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Paris, 2003 and 2004). For the dialectic between the two types of law—casuistic and apodictic—he refers particularly to Frank Crüsemann, Die Tora (Munich, 1992).

Chapter Five: The Lord’s Prayer

The literature on the Our Father is vast. For my exegesis I draw principally upon Joachim Gnilka, Das Matthäusevangelium. Erster Teil (Freiburg, 1986).

For the various interdisciplinary references some initial indications may be found in Florian Trenner, ed., Vater unser im Himmel (Munich, 2004).

On the Jewish background: Meinrad Limbeck, Von Jesus beten lernen. Das Vaterunser auf dem Hintergrund des Alten Testamentes (Stuttgart, 1980).

Jakob Josef Petuchowski and Michael Brocke. The Lord’s Prayer and Jewish Liturgy. Burns & Oates, London, 1978.

From the great wealth of spiritual commentary I would single out the too little regarded late work by Romano Guardini, Gebet und Wahrheit. Meditationen über das Vaterunser (Würzburg, 1960; Mainz, 1988 [3rd ed.]).

Reinhold Schneider. Das Vaterunser. Herder, Freiburg, 1947; 1979 (6th ed.).

Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J. Der österliche Weg. Exerzitien zur Lebenserneuerung. Herder, Freiburg, 1988, pp. 63–104.

Carlo Maria Martini. Non sprecate parole. Esercizi spirituali con il Padre nostro. Portalupi Editore, Casale Monferrato, 2005.

Among the commentaries on the Our Father by the Church Fathers, one of which I am particularly fond and which I therefore quote quite often is the one by Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200–258), De dominica oratione, in: Thasci Caecilli Cypriani Opera Omnia, CSEL III 1, pp. 265–294. For an English edition, see The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, vol. 36, trans. and ed. Roy J. Deferrari (New York, 1958).

On Revelation 12–13, cf., for example, Gianfranco Ravasi, Apocalisse (Casale Monferrato, 2000 [2nd ed.]), pp. 108–30.

Chapter Six: The Disciples

André Feuillet. Études d’exégèse et de théologie biblique. Ancien Testament. Gabalda, Paris, 1975.

Rudolf Pesch. Das Markusevangelium. Erster Teil. Herder, Freiburg, 1976.

Heinrich Schlier. Der Brief an die Epheser. Ein Kommentar. Patmos, Düsseldorf, 1958 (2nd ed.).

Eugen Biser. Einweisung in das Christentum. Patmos, Düsseldorf, 1997.

Chapter Seven: The Message of the Parables

Joachim Jeremias. The Parables of Jesus. Trans. S. H. Hooke. SCM Press, London, 1963, rev. ed.

Adolf Jülicher. Die Gleichnisreden Jesu. 2 vols. Mohr, Tübingen, 1899; 1910 (2nd ed.).

Charles H. Dodd. The Parables of the Kingdom. Nisbet, London, 1938 (4th ed.).

Helmut Kuhn. “Liebe.” Geschichte eines Begriffs. Kösel, Munich, 1975.

Pierre Grelot. Les Paroles de Jésus Christ. Introduction à la Bible, Nouveau Testament, 7. Desclée, Paris, 1986.

Saint Augustine. “Sermon 2.” In: Sermons 1–19. Trans. Matthew O’Connell. New City Press, Hyde Park, N.Y., 1991.

Chapter Eight: The Principal Images of John’s Gospel

GENERAL READING

Rudolf Bultmann. The Gospel of John: A Commentary. Trans. G. R. Beasley-Murray. Blackwell, Oxford, 1971.

Martin Hengel. The Son of God: The Origin of Christology and the History of Jewish-Hellenistic Religion. Trans. John Bowden. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1976.

Martin Hengel. The Johannine Question. Trans. John Bowden. SCM Press, London, 1989.

Rudolf Pesch. Antisemitismus in der Bibel? Das Johannesevangelium auf dem Prüfstand. Sankt Ulrich, Augsburg, 2005.

Henri Cazelles. “Johannes. Ein Sohn des Zebedäus. ‘Priester’ und Apostel.” In: Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift Communio 31 (2002), pp. 479–84.

Ulrich Wilckens. Theologie des Neuen Testaments. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn, 2005, esp. vol. 1, pt. 4, pp. 155–58.

Ingo Broer. Einleitung in das Neue Testament. Die Neue Echter-Bibel, Ergänzungsband 2/1. Echter, Würzburg, 1998.

From among all the literature on Saint John’s Gospel my principal source has been the three-volume commentary by Rudolf Schnackenburg, trans. David Smith and G. A. Kon (New York, 1982), from Herder’s Theological Commentary on the New Testament.

C. K. Barrett. The Gospel According to St. John. SPCK, London, 1978 (2nd ed.).

Francis J. Moloney. Belief in the Word: Reading John 1–4. Fortress, Minneapolis, 1993.

Francis J. Moloney. Signs and Shadows: Reading John 5–12. Fortress, Minneapolis, 1996.

Francis J. Moloney. Glory Not Dishonor: Reading John 13–21. Fortress, Minneapolis, 1998.

Raymond E. Brown. The Gospel According to John. 2 vols. Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1966–70.

WATER

Photina Rech. Inbild des Kosmos. Eine Symbolik der Schöpfung. 2 vols. Otto Müller, Salzburg, 1966.

Rudolf Schnackenburg. The Johannine Epistles. Crossroad, New York, 1992.

Rudolf Schnackenburg. The Gospel According to St. John. Trans. David Smith and G. A. Kon. Crossroad, New York, 1982, esp. vol. 2, pp. 151–57.

Hugo Rahner. Symbole der Kirche. Die Ekklesiologie der Väter. Otto Müller, Salzburg, 1964, esp. pp. 177–235.

VINE AND WINE

Besides the abovementioned commentaries on the Gospel of Saint John and the work by Photina Rech, I should like to refer especially to helpful articles by Peter Henrici, Michael Figura, Bernhard Dolna, and Holger Zaborowski in Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift Communio 35, 1 (2006).

On Isaiah 5:1–7: Otto Kaiser, Isaiah 1–12: A Commentary, trans. John Bowden (Philadelphia, 1983).

BREAD

Christoph Schönborn. Weihnacht—Mythos wird Wirklichkeit. Meditationen zur Menschwerdung. Johannes-Verlag, Einsiedeln, 1992 (2nd ed.), esp. pp. 15–30.

C. S. Lewis. Surprised by Joy. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1942, esp. pp. 223–24.

THE SHEPHERD

Joachim Jeremias. “Poimen ktl.” In: Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1968, vol. 6, pp. 499–502.

Karl Elliger. Das Buch der zwölf Kleinen Propheten, vol. 2. Vol. 25 of Das Alte Testament Deutsch. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1964 (5th ed.), pp. 168–77.

Frits van der Meer and Hans Sibbelee. Christus. Der Menschensohn in der abendländischen Plastik. Herder, Freiburg, 1980, esp. pp. 21–23.

Chapter Nine: Peter’s Confession and the Transfiguration

Rudolf Pesch. Das Markusevangelium. Zweiter Teil. Herder, Freiburg, 1977.

Karl Jaspers. The Great Philosophers, vol. 1. Trans. Ralph Manheim. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1962.

Pierre Grelot. Les Paroles de Jésus Christ. Introduction à la Bible, Nouveau Testament, 7. Desclée, Paris, 1986, pp. 174–205.

Bernhard Welte, ed. Zur Frühgeschichte der Christologie. Quaestiones disputatae, 51. Herder, Freiburg, 1970. Of particular importance here is the article by Heinrich Schlier, “Die Anfänge des christologischen Credo,” pp. 13–58.

Jean-Marie van Cangh and Michel van Esbroeck. La primauté de Pierre (Mt 16:16–19) et son contexte judaïque. In: Revue théologique de Louvain 11 (1980), pp. 310–24.

Hartmut Gese. Zur biblischen Theologie. Alttestamentliche Vorträge. Chr. Kaiser, Munich, 1977.

Jean Daniélou. The Bible and the Liturgy. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1956.

Harald Riesenfeld. Jésus transfiguré. L’arrière-plan du récit évangelique de la transfiguration de Notre Seigneur. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1947, pp. 188f.

Since this book is dedicated to the figure of Jesus, I have deliberately avoided offering a commentary on the statements regarding primacy in the context of Peter’s confession. I refer in this connection to Oscar Cullmann, Peter, Disciple, Apostle, Martyr: A Historical and Theological Study (Philadelphia, 1953).

Rudolf Pesch. Simon-Petrus. Geschichte und geschichtliche Bedeutung des ersten Jüngers Jesu Christi. Hiersemann, Stuttgart, 1980.

Rudolf Pesch. Die biblischen Grundlagen des Primats. Quaestiones disputatae 187. Herder, Freiburg, 2001.

Joachim Gnilka. Petrus und Rom. Das Petrus bild in den ersten zwei Jahrhunderten. Herder, Freiburg, 2002.

Martin Hengel. Der unterschätzte Petrus. Zwei Studien. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006.

Chapter Ten: Jesus Declares His Identity

Ferdinand Hahn. The Titles of Jesus in Christology: Their History in Early Christianity. Trans. Harold Knight and George Ogg. James Clarke & Company, London, 2002.

James M. Robinson. A New Quest of the Historical Jesus. SCM, London, 1959.

Rudolf Schnackenburg. Jesus in the Gospels: A Biblical Christology. Trans. O. C. Dean Jr. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, 1995, pp. 52–60 (regarding the Son of Man).

Rudolf Schnackenburg. The Gospel According to St. John. Trans. Cecily Hastings et al. Burns & Oates, London, 1980, esp. vol. 2., pp. 79–89 (the origin and meaning of the ego eimi formula) and pp. 172–86 (“The Son” as Jesus’ self-designation in the Gospel of John).

Heinrich Zimmerman. “Das absolute ‘Ich bin’ in der Redeweise Jesu.” In: Trierer Theologische Zeitschrift 69 (1960), pp. 1–20.

Heinrich Zimmermann. “Das absolute ego eimi als die neutestamentliche Offenbarungsformel.” In: Biblische Zeitschrift NF 4 (1960), pp. 54–69, 266–76.

Regarding the context of biblical and conciliar Christology, I refer to the seminal work by Aloys Grillmeier, Christ in Christian Tradition, vol. 1: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451), trans. John Bowden (New York, 1965).