Titles of Jesus

Titles

We haven't looked much at the "titles" of Jesus yet.  

See Hauer and Young pages 251ff.  

Devon Wiens, retired FPU prof, published this helpful short series on the title .

Wikipedia is not generally a recommended source for out level of class, but the article on titles of Christ is (currently) pretty good.  It's here

And we note that some of these titles really kick in in the  Matthew chapters 8-10 we've been looking at: Son of Man and Son of God particularly.   It would seem obvions that these two titles are opposite in meaning: Jesus as human and God, respectively....but a study of the literary/historical world reveals that "Son of Man" was often used as a messianic connotations (and in a sense could mean "God"..see especially Daniel 7:

NT Wright 

Check out this chart ,and note re: each title:

• where in the gospel 
• how often  
• and on whose lips
• where they cluster
• inclusios etc.

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-Son of God                         (7x..or 8, if you count 3:17)

-Son of the Living God         (once, hmm)

-Son of Man                         (29x.....and all by one person!)

-Son of David                      (9x)

>>Click to read the context of each time each title occurs:

• Son of God
• Son of the Living God
• Son of Man
• Son of David
• Son of Abraham
• Son of Adam

Remember David Bauer's video on the literary world structure of Matthew (below).

Watch again, and focus on the idea of Jesus as God's Son.
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The New Bible Dictionary is a great source.
Here is their article on titles.

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Also a great source is the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels that Joel Green edited.
See below.  To find an article on each title, out the title in the search bar here. A few pages may be missing.  Here below is their complete artickle on Son of Man.Cick pages(and then click again once on a new page) to enlarge

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To get more info on the titles, and a sense of how they are used in other biblical books, see this.

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Check out this article on the title "Son of God" and what it implies to Christians and Muslims, and implications for Bible translation:
The Son and the Crescent