Adolf Jülicher

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Adolf Jülicher (26 January 1857 – 2 August 1938) was a German

exegete. Specifically, he was the Professor of Church History and New Testament Exegesis, at the University of Marburg. He was born in Falkenberg near Berlin and died in Marburg
.

Jülicher differentiated between Jesus' parables and allegories.[1] His "one-point' analysis identified parables as having a single point of reference to the real world, rather than several, as in an allegory.[1] His approach has not held up completely to later research, but it remains foundational to all investigations of parables and allegories.[1]

Ideas

The Messianic Secret

Jülicher, along with Johannes Weiss,[2] was instrumental in forging a consensus position on the new theory of "Messianic Secret" motif in the Gospel of Mark. Before Jülicher, William Wrede had theorized that the historical Jesus had not claimed to be the Messiah, but that the early church had claimed that he was. According to this theory, the author of Mark's gospel had invented the idea of the "Messianic Secret", whereby Jesus attempted to hide his identity, and only revealed it to a very few insiders.[3] Conservative interpreters of Mark's gospel, exemplified by William Sanday[4] and Albert Schweitzer,[5] believed instead that Mark's portrayal of Jesus was largely historical. Scholarship was strictly divided for a time, with neither side considering the other's views at all valid.[6]

Jülicher helped to bridge this divide by suggesting that while many of Wrede's suggestions were correct, other aspects of the Messianic Secret may have been historical. He called Mark's portrayal of Jesus as a taciturn Messiah "half-historical", and allowed for the analysis of some of Mark's presentation as an accurate depiction (while, at the same time, warning against an uncritical acceptance of these same statements).[7] This helped pave the way to many post-Bultmann theories in the 1950s.[6]

Parables

Jülicher also helped to change the understanding of the

Kingdom of God". Nearly all subsequent scholarship has followed Jülicher's ideas in this, although some have seen a slightly wider range of comparisons that he proposed.[13][14]

Other Ideas

In his thorough Introduction to the New Testament, composed in 1904, Jülicher wrote at length about many aspects of

I Clement
. Most of the body of An Introduction succinctly described the latest biblical scholarship of its day.

Works in English

See also

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 38590348
    .
  2. ^ Johannes Weiss, Christ: The Beginning of Dogma, trans. V. D. Davis (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1911)
  3. ^ William Wrede, Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien: Zugleich ein Beitrag zum Verständnis des Markusevangeliums, (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1901); English edition, William Wrede, The Messianic Secret, trans. J. C. G. Grieg (Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 1971).
  4. ^ William Sanday, The Life of Christ in Recent Research (New York: Oxford University Press, 1907).
  5. ^ Albert Schweitzer, Von Reimarus zu Wrede (Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1906); English edition, Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, trans. W. Montgomery (New York: Macmillan, 1948).
  6. ^ a b John M. DePoe, The Messianic Secret In The Gospel of Mark: Historical Development and Value of Wrede's Theory, http://www.johndepoe.com/Messianic_secret.pdf Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ^ Adolf Jülicher, Neue Linen in der Kritik der evangelischen Uberliefrung (Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1906)
  8. ^ Adolf Jülicher, Die Gleichnisreden Jesu (2 vols; Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1888, 1899).
  9. ^ Raymond E. Brown, Parable and Allegory Reconsidered, Novum Testamentum, Vol. 5, Fasc. 1. (Jan., 1962), pp. 36-45. Online
  10. ^
    A Marginal Jew
    Volume II, Doubleday, 1994.
  11. ^ C. H. Dodd, The Parables of the Kingdom (New York: Scribner & Sons, 1961).
  12. ^ Joachim Jeremias, The Parables of Jesus, trans. S. H. Hooke, 2d ed. (New York: Scribner & Sons, 1954).
  13. ^ Mark L. Bailey, Guidelines for Interpreting Jesus' Parables, Bibliotheca Sacra 155: 617 (1998): 29-38. http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_parables_bailey.html
  14. ^ Robert H. Stein, An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus, Chapter 5, Westminster John Knox Press, 1981.
  15. ^ Adolf Jülicher, Einleitung in das Neue Testament. (Siebente Auflage; neubearbeitet in Verbindung mit Erich Fascher.) Tübingen: Mohr, 1904; English translation, Adolf Jülicher, An Introduction to the New Testament, translated by Janet Penrose Ward (London: Smith, Elder, & Co.).
  16. ^ Donald W. Riddle (review author), Jülicher's "Introduction" Re-Edited, "The Journal of Religion", The University of Chicago Press, 1932.
  17. ^ Alan K. Kirk, The Composition of the Sayings Source: Genre, Synchrony, and Wisdom Redaction in Q (BRILL, 1998).
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