Burton L. Mack

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Burton Lee Mack (* 1931 in Los Angeles ) is an American author, theologian and religious scholar on early Christian history and the New Testament . Mack is John Wesley Emeritus Professor of Early Christianity at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont , California . In 1996 he retired from university, a position he had held since 1980.

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Mack is the son of a pastor of the Church of the Nazarene , Church of the Nazarene . He attended Portland High School and began his studies at Pasadena Nazarene College. Mack later studied at the Theological Seminary in San Francisco , under the direction of Theodore Alexander Gill at the time, before moving to Göttingen in 1963 , where he continued his studies under New Testament scholar Hans Conzelmann as well as Carsten Colpe and Berndt Schaller . In 1967 he received his doctorate theologiae from the University of Göttingen . Back in the United States of America, he taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey .

Mack has done extensive research on the so-called Q-source, which he considers essential to understand the historical Jesus and trace the origins of Christianity. In Jesus of Nazareth Mack sees the language diction a Greco-Roman Cynics . He shares this view. a. with John Dominic Crossan (* 1934), who also interprets Jesus as a Jewish Cynic. Referring to John S. Kloppenborg , Mack sees that there are three main layers of the Logia source , each of which coincides with a phase in the life of Jesus of his followers. The layers are strongly structured in terms of time, the earliest material is relativized and bracketed by later material.

Works (selection)

  • Wisdom and the Hebrew Epic: Ben Sira's Hymn in Praise of the Fathers. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 1986, ISBN 978-0-22650-049-2
  • A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, PA 1988, ISBN 9780800621131 .
  • Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels. Foundations & facets - Literary facets. Polebridge Press, Sonoma, CA 1989, ISBN 978-0-944344-08-8 .
  • Rhetoric and the New Testament. Guides to Biblical Scholarship - New Testament series. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN 1990, ISBN 9780800623951 .
  • Lost Gospel: The Book of Q & Christian Origins. (1st ed.), Harper San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1993, ISBN 978-0-06-065374-3 .
  • Who Wrote the New Testament ?: The Making of the Christian Myth. HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, CA 1996, ISBN 0-06-065518-6 .
  • The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy. Continuum, New York, NY 2001, ISBN 978-0-8264-1355-0 .
  • The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth: Restoring our Democratic Ideals. Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2017, ISBN 9780300222890 .
  • Who wrote the New Testament? The invention of the Christian myth. CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-4064-4015-1
  • Logos and Sophia: Studies on wisdom theology in Hellenistic Judaism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 978-3-5255-3361-1

literature

  • Ron Cameron: The Laboratories of Burton Mack. Scholarship That's Made a Difference. FORUM third series 7.1 spring 2018 ( [4] on westarinstitute.org)

Web links

  • Portrait photography by Burton Lee Mack [5]
  • Burton Mack: The Quest for Christian Origins. [6]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burton L. Mack: The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth: Restoring Our Democratic Ideals. Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2017, ISBN 978-0-3002-2289-0 , pp. 1 f. ( [1] on books.google.de)
  2. ↑ Rev. Dr. Theodore Alexander Gill (1920–2002) was President of the San Francisco Theological Seminary from 1958 to 1966.
  3. ^ University of Montana Scholar Works at University of Montana. 1956 – present University Relations 12-7-1982. Biblical scholar to speak at UM [2]
  4. ↑ Review: Jesus preached the spontaneous. Frankfurter Allgemeine , updated on March 22, 2000 ( [3] on faz.net)
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Burton L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mack, Burton Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American religious scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles