Standing on the shoulders of giants: re-tuning John O'Neill's theory of the blasphemy charge against Jesus

Title: Standing on the shoulders of giants: re-tuning John O'Neill's theory of the blasphemy charge against Jesus
Creator: King, Fergus J.
Relation: Irish Biblical Studies Vol. 28, Issue 2, p. 52-77
Relation: http://www.union.ac.uk/publications
Publisher: Union Theological College
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: The late John O'Neill repeatedly argued that a Jewish Law about claiming to be the Messiah lay at the root of the charge against Jesus. This demanded that Jesus never speak of himself as Messiah. O'Neill elaborated an elaborate series of arguments to show that Jesus maintained silence about his status. This paper summarises and analyses O'Neill's various writings and suggests that this thesis, as it stands, that Jesus was condemned for breaking a law about claiming to be the Messiah does not hold up. An examination of some Philonic evidence, however, yields traces of a legal charge based on self testimony -which might form the basis of a charge against Jesus. The charge focuses on the nature rather than substance of the claim, as O'Neill assetted, and gains some support from recent research on identity formation.
Subject: Jewish law; John O'Neill; Jesus; identity formation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931526
Identifier: uon:11092
Identifier: ISSN:0268-6112
Language: eng
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