The Titles of Jesus in Christology: Their History in Early Christianity [Paperback]

The Titles of Jesus in Christology was recognised as a major contribution to Christological study when it was first published in German in 1963. Its translation into English a few years later cemented this status. Hahn undertakes a massive and detailed examination of the various traditions that led to the use of names for Jesus that we now recognise as characteristic of the very early Church. Moreover, he carefully distinguishes between the different Christological conceptions present in these differing branches of primitive Christianity, and embodied in the terms they produced. His analysis and categories have been followed by many later scholars, who built on his detailed study of the peculiarities of the different titles given to Jesus by the different communities that followed him.GBAbbreviations
Introduction

Chapter 1. The Son of Man
1. Philological Problems and Problems connected with the History of Religion
2. The Son of Man Concept and the Preaching of Jesus
3. Words concerning the futre Action of the Son of Man
4. Words concerning the earthly Deeds of the Son of Man
5. Words concerning the Passion and Resurrection of the Son of Man
Excursus I: The Idea of the Vicariously Suffering Servant of God in the Earliest Christianity
Chapter 2. Kyrios
1. The Hellenistic and Old Testament Use of the Title of Lord
2. The Description of Jesus as Lord in the Palestinian Tradition
3. The 'Lord' who is to come again
4. The Exalted One as 'Kyrios'
Excursus II: Psalm 110:1 and the Idea of the Exaltation of Jesus
Chapter 3. Christos
1. The Background in teh Old Testament and Late Judaism
2. The Significance of the Messianic Concept in the Life of Jesus
3. The Messianism of Jesus in the Oldest Tradition
4. Jesus as Messiah in the Context of the Concept of Exaltaion
5. The Connection of the Passion-Tradition with the Christos Title
6. The Generalisation of the Christos Title and its Use as a Proper Name
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