 | The Nonviolent Messiah When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the messiah and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic materialconceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus own self-understanding. Simon J. Joseph is adjunct professor of religion at California Lutheran University. He received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and of Jesus, Q, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Judaic Approach to Q (2012). |
