A Synoptic Christology of Lament

Channing L. Crisler

doi:10.5771/9781666912715

Summary

In A Synoptic Christology of Lament: The Lord Who Answered and the Lord Who Cried, Channing Crisler explores an oft underappreciated description of Jesus in which the Synoptic writers portray him as both answering cries of distress and uttering them himself. Matthew, Mark, and Luke take up the quintessential language of suffering from Israel’s Scriptures, namely lament. Their engagement with lament overlaps and diverges from one another based upon their specific biographical aims. What emerges from this engagement is a diverse biographical portrait in which Jesus both responds to the cries of the afflicted as Israel’s God did and shares in their cries as righteous sufferers from Israel’s past did. The explanatory climax of this phenomenon arises in the respective passion narratives where Jesus’s ability to answer and utter lament finally converge in the same literary setting. The implications of this dynamic are far reaching as it provides yet another consideration for ongoing research on early Christology. The lament language embedded in the Synoptic Gospels and reflected in subsequent early Christian writings points to a belief among some Christ followers that Jesus answered their cries and participated in them.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1270-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1271-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 360
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Abbreviations No access
3. Introduction No access
1. 1. Narrative Criticism and Lament No access
  2. Intertextual Criticism and Lament No access
  3. Genre Criticism and Lament No access
  4. Redaction Criticism and Lament No access
  5. Identifying Lament Language in Synoptic Episodes No access
2. 1. Lament as Plot in C. H. Dodd No access
  2. The Psalms of Lament in Mark’s Passion No access
  3. Lament and Synoptic Characterization No access
  4. Lament and Synoptic Eschatology No access
  5. Lament and Lukan Christology No access
  6. Summary No access
3. Moving Forward No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Characteristics of the Lamenter No access
  2. Characteristics of Israel’s God No access
  3. Characteristics of Lamenters’ Enemies No access
2. 1. 1. The Abrahamic Promise No access
    2. The Mosaic Promise No access
    3. The Davidic Promise No access
    4. The Promise of Newness No access
    5. The Promise of Jerusalem No access
    6. The Promise of YHWH’s Arrival No access
    7. The Promise to Be Heard No access
    8. Summary of Prior Promises No access
  2. 1. Afflicted by Guilt No access
    2. Afflicted by Disease and Death No access
    3. Afflicted by Unjust Hostility No access
    4. Afflicted by Danger Within the Created Order No access
    5. Afflicted by Poverty No access
    6. Afflicted by Divine Abandonment or Aloofness No access
    7. Summary of Suffering No access
  3. 1. Divine Vocatives in the Cry of Distress No access
    2. Complaints and Petitions Related to Deliverance No access
    3. Divine Motivation for Answering Cries for Deliverance No access
    4. Summary of the Cry for Deliverance No access
  4. 1. Deliverance through an Agent No access
    2. Deliverance through a Prophecy, Vision, or Command No access
    3. Deliverance through Reaffirmation No access
  5. From Lament to Praise No access
3. 1. YHWH’s Identity in Light of Lament No access
  2. The Identity of the Righteous in Lament No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Mk 1:1 and the Centurion’s Confession Mk 15:39 No access
  2. 1. Echoes of Lament from Exodus 23:20 No access
    2. Echoes of Lament from Malachi 3:1 No access
    3. Echoes of Lament from Isa 40:3 No access
  3. Summary of Lament Echoes in Mk 1:2–3 No access
  4. 1. Jesus’s Baptism and Echoes of Lament from Isa 63:15–64:11 No access
    2. Jesus’s Baptism and Echoes of Righteous Sufferers from Israel’s Scriptures No access
  5. 1. Tempted in the Guilt of Adam and Israel No access
    2. Tempted in the “Innocence” of the Righteous No access
  6. Summary of Temptation No access
2. 1. The Lament of an Unclean ἄνθρωπος (Mk 1:23–28) No access
  2. The Lament of a λεπρός (Mk 1:39–45) No access
  3. The Enacted Lament of a παραλυτικός (Mk 2:1–12) No access
  4. The Lament of a Man with a Withered Hand (Mk 3:1–6) No access
  5. Lament of the Disciples at Sea (Mk 4:35–41) No access
  6. Lament of the Gerasene ἄνθρωππος (Mk 5:1–20) No access
  7. An Intercalated Lament of Daughters (Mk 5:21–43) No access
  8. Another Lament at Sea (Mk 6:45–52) No access
  9. A “Dog’s” Lament for Her Daughter (Mk 7:24–30) No access
  10. The Lament of a κωφός and μογιλάλος (Mk 7:31–37) No access
  11. Jesus’s Cry of Frustration (Mk 8:11–13) No access
  12. The Lament of a Blind Man (Mk 8:22–26) No access
  13. The Lament of a Father (Mk 9:14–29) No access
  14. The Lament of Bartimaeus (Mk 10:46–52) No access
3. 1. Jesus’s Lament at Gethsemane (Mk 14:32–42) No access
  2. 1. Lament and Scheming Against Jesus No access
    2. Lament and Lying About Jesus No access
    3. Lament and the Mocking of Jesus No access
  3. Judas, Pilate, and Lament No access
  4. Lament in Mark’s Death Scene No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Lament in Matthew’s Genealogy No access
  2. Lament in Matthew’s Birth Narrative No access
  3. Lament in the Ministry of John the Baptist No access
  4. Lament in Matthew’s Baptism Scene No access
  5. Lament in Jesus’s Temptation No access
  6. Summary of Lament in the Opening Frame No access
2. 1. The Lament of a λεπρός No access
  2. The Lament at Sea (Mt 8:23–27) No access
  3. The Lament of Two Demoniacs (Mt 8:28–34) No access
  4. The Lament of a Paralytic (Mt 9:2–8) No access
  5. The Lament of Two “Daughters” (Mt 9:18–26) No access
  6. A Lament by Two Blind Men (Mt 9:27–31) No access
  7. The Lament of a Man with a Withered Hand (Mt 12:9–14) No access
  8. The Disciples’ Lament of a φάντασμα (Mt 14:22–33) No access
  9. The Lament of a Canaanite Woman (Mt 15:21–28) No access
  10. The Lament of a Father (Mt 17:14–20) No access
  11. A Lament by Two Blind Men (Mt 20:29–34) No access
3. 1. A Centurion’s Lament for His Παῖς (Mt 8:5–13) No access
4. 1. Jesus’s Lament over Jerusalem (Mt 23:37–39) No access
  2. Jesus’s Lament at Gethsemane (Mt 26:36–46) No access
  3. Lament Before and During the Crucifixion Scene (Mt 27:33–43) No access
  4. Jesus’s Lament at the Cross in Mt 27:45–54 No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Exemplars of Righteous Lamenters No access
  2. Lament in the Magnificat (Lk 1:46–55) No access
  3. Lament in the Benedictus (Lk 1:68–79) No access
  4. Lament in Jesus’s Baptism (Lk 3:21–22) No access
  5. Lament in Jesus’s Temptation (Lk 4:1–13) No access
  6. Lament in Jesus’s Sermon at Nazareth (Lk 4:14–31) No access
2. 1. Lament of a Man “Full” of Leprosy (Lk 5:12–16) No access
  2. Lament of a Paralytic (Lk 5:17–26) No access
  3. The Lament of a Man with a Withered Hand (Lk 6:6–11) No access
  4. Lament at Sea (Lk 8:22–25) No access
  5. The Lament of the Demoniac (Lk 8:26–39) No access
  6. The Laments of Two Daughters (Lk 8:40–56) No access
  7. A Father’s Lament for His Son No access
  8. The Lament of the Blind Beggar (Lk 18:35–43) No access
3. 1. A Centurion’s Lament for His Ailing Servant (Lk 7:1–10) No access
  2. Jesus’s Lament for Jerusalem (Lk 13:31–35) No access
4. 1. Peter’s Lament to Jesus No access
  2. A Widow’s Lamentation for Her Only Son (Lk 7:11–17) No access
  3. A Crippled Woman’s Lament (Lk 13:10–17) No access
  4. The Lament of a Man with Dropsy (Lk 14:2–6) No access
  5. A Postmortem Lament to Abraham (Lk 16:19–31) No access
  6. The Lament of the Samaritan Leper (Lk 17:12–19) No access
  7. Jesus’s Teaching on Lament (Lk 18:1–14) No access
5. 1. Jesus’s Second Lament over Jerusalem No access
  2. Jesus’s Lament at the Mount of Olives No access
  3. The Daughters’ Lamentation for Jesus No access
  4. The Lamenting Criminal at the Cross No access
  5. Jesus’s Dying Lament No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Jesus as the Lord who Answered and the Lord Who Cried No access
2. 1. A Synoptic Christology of Lament as Complement to Christological Paradigms No access
  2. Reflections of a Synoptic Christology of Lament in Other NT Texts No access
  3. Reflections of a Synoptic Christology of Lament on Other Early Christian Writings No access
3. Notes No access
1. Note No access
Bibliography No access Pages 311 - 320
Author Index No access Pages 321 - 324
Scripture Index No access Pages 325 - 358
About the Author No access Pages 359 - 360