The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus

The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus

by Jordan J. Ryan
The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus

The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus

by Jordan J. Ryan

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Overview

No one disputes today that Jesus must be understood as a participant in the currents of Second Temple Judaism. However, his relation to the institution of the synagogue has received much less attention despite the clear depiction in all four Gospels of the synagogue as the site of his activity and the considerable recent scholarship on the place of the synagogue in Jewish life. Reviewing what we now know about actual synagogues in the land of Israel and what we understand of their public role in Jewish life and culture, Jordan J. Ryan shows that Gospel narratives placed in synagogues accurately reflect the ancient synagogue setting, a fact that points toward the historical plausibility of the setting of these narratives and suggests that synagogue research must be a starting point for their interpretation. Further, he argues that the synagogue setting of Jesus‘s activities reveals that his efforts at the restoration of Israel were intentionally aimed at the synagogue as an institution of public and political life; that is, Jesus sought to bring the kingdom of God into being by persuading local public synagogue assemblies to participate in it. This book marks an important new direction for research.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506428116
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 11/15/2017
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Jordan J. Ryan is assistant professor of New Testament at the University of Dubuque. Previously, he was visiting assistant professor of New Testament and archaeology at Wheaton College. He recently received his doctorate from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Figures and Tables xi

Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction and Status Quaestionis 1

Part I Early Synagogues

2 Defining "Synagogue": Synagogue Origins and Development in Recent Research 23

3 The Public Synagogue as Jesus Knew It: Functions, People, and Architecture 37

Gallery: Synagogue Archaeology and Architecture 79

Excursus: Early Post-Second-Temple-Period Synagogues 89

4 How "the Synagogue" Has Impacted the Study of Jesus in Previous Research: An Evaluation 95

Part II The Historical Jesus and the Synagogue

5 Kingdom and Synagogue: The Synagogue and Jesus's Program 125

6 The Incident in the Synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:16-30; Mark 6:2-6; Matt 13:54-58) 171

7 Healings and Exorcisms in Synagogue Settings (Matt 12:9-14; Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11 / Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37) 207

8 "I am the Bread of Life": The Teaching in the Synagogue at Capernaum (John 6:25-71) 243

9 To Jerusalem: The Aposynagogos Passages and the Relationship between the Temple and Synagogue 265

Conclusion 277

Appendix A Outlining the Practice of History: A Historiographical Approach to Jesus 281

Appendix B Approaching the Sources: Hermeneutics, Truth, and Knowledge in the Practice of History 309

Appendix C Additional Notes on Secondary Rooms in Synagogue Buildings 329

Works Cited 333

Index of Names 375

Index of Texts 383

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