A prophet like Moses: Early christian use of the Moses tradition

Gregory C. Jenks

A prophet like Moses: Early christian use of the Moses tradition

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Abstract

Moses loomed large in Second Temple Jewish literature as the founder of the Jewish people. The first few generations of Christians had to engage with this reality and locate Jesus in a theological landscape dominated by the figure and the legacy of Moses. This paper will map some of the ways in which different Christian authors during the first 100 years after Easter configured Moses to serve their own purposes of promoting Jesus as the eschatological prophet. This study is not concerned with the historicity of either Moses or Jesus, but rather seeks to explore how the early Jesus communities engaged with the legacy of Moses in the first hundred years of Christianity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Subtitle of host publication	Moses in three traditions and in literature
Editors	John Tracy Greene
Place of Publication	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Chapter	6
Pages	151-187
Number of pages	37
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781443876339
ISBN (Print)	9781443843751
Publication status	Published - 02 Jan 2017

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Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires: Moses in three traditions and in literature. ed. / John Tracy Greene. 1st. ed. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. p. 151-187.

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