About this Book

 When scholars have set Jesus
against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other redemptive figures in
early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem
of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine
violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those
discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic
redeemer figure in the Enochic material­—conceptions that informed the Q tradition
and, he argues, Jesus’ own self-understanding.