Michael Goulder
Biographic Data
| ID | 3982191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Goulder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Goulder |
| SIGNATURE | GOULDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jesus' Resurrection and Christian Origins
While acknowledging Wright's competent handling of a wide range of primary sources, this response takes issue with his conclusions by arguing that the bodily resurrection did not happen and that the Gospel accounts are legendary and at times contradictory. It is also argued that there are two distinct traditions of understanding the resurrection in earliest Christianity, i.e. a more 'spiritual' transformation associated with the Jerusalem church …
Hebrews and the Ebionites
Hebrews was written to dissuade certain Jewish-Christian members of the community from lapsing; it proclaims a Pauline-type faith, the incarnation and the atonement. Our earliest account of Jewish Christians is of Irenaeus's Ebionites: they thought Christ to be an angelic power who possessed the human Jesus from his baptism to before his passion. Such a creed would explain Hebrews' deprecation of angels and insistence on Christ's humanity through…
Psalm 8 and the Son of Man
There is no adequate evidence of a ‘Son of Man’ concept in Jesus’ time, nor of a common Aramaism for ‘man’ (misunderstood by Aramaic-speaking evangelists). Ps 8.6 was widely used to explain the delay in Christians’ resurrection: the υιος ανθρωπου to whom all would be subjected in time was Jesus. Heb 2.8–9 makes this explicit, proving Jesus’ incarnation (‘briefly inferior to angels’), cross and resurrection (‘crowned . . . because of the suffering…
A Poor Man's Christology
The Jerusalem church called itself oι πτωχoι (Gal 2.10), probably from Isa 61.1, and held a prophetic Christology (Acts 3, 7). The Ebionites in Irenaeus and Epiphanius traced their name to Acts 2–5, and held Jesus to have been a prophetic figure, conceived naturally and possessed by the Spirit/‘Christ’ from baptism till before the passion. The same prophetic/possessionist Christology seems to be taught by Jewish Christians opposed by Justin and I…
"Ignatius' "Docetists
Of the problems raised by Ignatius' letters, the most intransigent have been three.1 Were all the Asian churches to whom he wrote under pressure to "Judaize", or only Magnesia and Philadelphia? Were all these churches threatened by a "docetic" teaching, or only some, perhaps different from those with Judaizers?2 What precisely did the "docetism" consist of? I offer some reflections on the first two of these questions, and a new form (so far as I …
Colossians And Barbelo
The nature of the ‘Colossian heresy’ remains obscure. It has gnostic features, but ChristianGnosticism is usually dated to the second century. It has elements of Judaism, but we know nothingof first-century Jewish gnosis. It may be a syncretistic ‘philosophy’, but such a description is barren, and explains nothing. It may be a kind of mysticism, but again the idea is difficult todefine, and the picture is left vague. I am proposing in this articl…
Crossing the Boundaries
Professor Michael Goulder is fêted in this volume with a collection of 24 articles written for the occasion of his retirement by his colleagues and friends. The essays, which respond to and/or interact with Professor Goulder's creative work across the boundaries of the scholarly disciplines, are grouped into four subject areas: (I) Method in Interpretation; (II) The Hebrew Bible in Context; (III) The New Testament in Context; (IV) Views beyond th…
Luke's Compositional Options
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Exegesis of Genesis 1-3 in the New Testament
ΣΟΦIA in 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians presents many problems, whose difficulty consists in large measure in their interrelatedness; but the major problem of the first four chapters is the nature of the σοφία against which Paul polemicizes. This is especially mysterious because the apostle treats it with unquestionable seriousness, and yet it does not apparently recur in any other letter, not even in 2 Corinthians. As it is so closely linked in the text with the σχίσματα…
The Song of Fourteen Songs
From Ministry to Passion in John and Luke
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The Apocalypse as an Annual Cycle of Prophecies
The Apocalypse is not a random jumble of ‘prophecies’: it shows clear evidence of ordering. The problem, however, is to know on what principles the ordering has been done, and which principle has been dominant or primary, and which less influential. For example, the Seven Letters, Seals, Trumpets and Bowls seem at first sight to dominate the book; but then every commentator has some embarrassment in explaining the intrusions of chs 7 and 10–11, l…
Farrer on Q
The Empty Tomb
The Composition of the Lord's Prayer
THE COMPOSITION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER Get access M. D. GOULDER M. D. GOULDER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume XIV, Issue 1, April 1963, Pages 32–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/XIV.1.32 Published: 01 April 1963
"Ignatius' "Docetists
Of the problems raised by Ignatius' letters, the most intransigent have been three.1 Were all the Asian churches to whom he wrote under pressure to "Judaize", or only Magnesia and Philadelphia? Were all these churches threatened by a "docetic" teaching, or only some, perhaps different from those with Judaizers?2 What precisely did the "docetism" consist of? I offer some reflections on the first two of these questions, and a new form (so far as I …
The Composition of the Lord's Prayer
THE COMPOSITION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER Get access M. D. GOULDER M. D. GOULDER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume XIV, Issue 1, April 1963, Pages 32–45, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/XIV.1.32 Published: 01 April 1963
The Empty Tomb
Farrer on Q
The Apocalypse as an Annual Cycle of Prophecies
The Apocalypse is not a random jumble of ‘prophecies’: it shows clear evidence of ordering. The problem, however, is to know on what principles the ordering has been done, and which principle has been dominant or primary, and which less influential. For example, the Seven Letters, Seals, Trumpets and Bowls seem at first sight to dominate the book; but then every commentator has some embarrassment in explaining the intrusions of chs 7 and 10–11, l…
From Ministry to Passion in John and Luke
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Song of Fourteen Songs
ΣΟΦIA in 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians presents many problems, whose difficulty consists in large measure in their interrelatedness; but the major problem of the first four chapters is the nature of the σοφία against which Paul polemicizes. This is especially mysterious because the apostle treats it with unquestionable seriousness, and yet it does not apparently recur in any other letter, not even in 2 Corinthians. As it is so closely linked in the text with the σχίσματα…
Exegesis of Genesis 1-3 in the New Testament
Luke's Compositional Options
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Crossing the Boundaries
Professor Michael Goulder is fêted in this volume with a collection of 24 articles written for the occasion of his retirement by his colleagues and friends. The essays, which respond to and/or interact with Professor Goulder's creative work across the boundaries of the scholarly disciplines, are grouped into four subject areas: (I) Method in Interpretation; (II) The Hebrew Bible in Context; (III) The New Testament in Context; (IV) Views beyond th…
Colossians And Barbelo
The nature of the ‘Colossian heresy’ remains obscure. It has gnostic features, but ChristianGnosticism is usually dated to the second century. It has elements of Judaism, but we know nothingof first-century Jewish gnosis. It may be a syncretistic ‘philosophy’, but such a description is barren, and explains nothing. It may be a kind of mysticism, but again the idea is difficult todefine, and the picture is left vague. I am proposing in this articl…
A Poor Man's Christology
The Jerusalem church called itself oι πτωχoι (Gal 2.10), probably from Isa 61.1, and held a prophetic Christology (Acts 3, 7). The Ebionites in Irenaeus and Epiphanius traced their name to Acts 2–5, and held Jesus to have been a prophetic figure, conceived naturally and possessed by the Spirit/‘Christ’ from baptism till before the passion. The same prophetic/possessionist Christology seems to be taught by Jewish Christians opposed by Justin and I…
"Ignatius' "Docetists
Of the problems raised by Ignatius' letters, the most intransigent have been three.1 Were all the Asian churches to whom he wrote under pressure to "Judaize", or only Magnesia and Philadelphia? Were all these churches threatened by a "docetic" teaching, or only some, perhaps different from those with Judaizers?2 What precisely did the "docetism" consist of? I offer some reflections on the first two of these questions, and a new form (so far as I …
Psalm 8 and the Son of Man
There is no adequate evidence of a ‘Son of Man’ concept in Jesus’ time, nor of a common Aramaism for ‘man’ (misunderstood by Aramaic-speaking evangelists). Ps 8.6 was widely used to explain the delay in Christians’ resurrection: the υιος ανθρωπου to whom all would be subjected in time was Jesus. Heb 2.8–9 makes this explicit, proving Jesus’ incarnation (‘briefly inferior to angels’), cross and resurrection (‘crowned . . . because of the suffering…
Hebrews and the Ebionites
Hebrews was written to dissuade certain Jewish-Christian members of the community from lapsing; it proclaims a Pauline-type faith, the incarnation and the atonement. Our earliest account of Jewish Christians is of Irenaeus's Ebionites: they thought Christ to be an angelic power who possessed the human Jesus from his baptism to before his passion. Such a creed would explain Hebrews' deprecation of angels and insistence on Christ's humanity through…
Jesus' Resurrection and Christian Origins
While acknowledging Wright's competent handling of a wide range of primary sources, this response takes issue with his conclusions by arguing that the bodily resurrection did not happen and that the Gospel accounts are legendary and at times contradictory. It is also argued that there are two distinct traditions of understanding the resurrection in earliest Christianity, i.e. a more 'spiritual' transformation associated with the Jerusalem church …
Philosophy (15 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Theology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Literature (7 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works)