Messiad

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The Messiad (in Hebrew משיח Messiah , "the anointed" in the Christian understanding, nickname Jesus ) is the epic representation of the life of Jesus, taking into account the material given in the Gospels .

Messiads have their origin in the Gospel harmonies , e.g. B. in Tatian's Diatessaron (around 170) and the old Saxon Heliand and the gospel book of Otfrid von Weißenburg (around 830).

A recent example of great influence on literature was Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's Der Messiah (1748–73), who was widely imitated, including a. in Johann Caspar Lavaters Jesus Christ or The Future of the Lord (1780), in the 19th century by Friedrich Rückert in the life of Jesus. Gospel harmony in a bound speech (1839) and Friedrich Wilhelm Helle's Christ epics such as B. Jesus Messiah (1896). Ernest Renan's popular scientific work La Vie de Jésus (1863) inspired the first free representations in prose form in the 20th century , some of which undertook a reinterpretation of the material: in the course of the New Objectivity Walter von Molos The Legend of the Lord (1927), Emil Ludwig The Son of Man. Story of a Prophet (1928), Paul Ernst's The Savior (1930) and Edzard Schaper Life of Jesus (1936), later Max Brod from Jewish authored understanding work The Master (1952) and Robert Graves ' historical novel King Jesus (1954).

Works that reflect the historical Jesus of Nazareth only in modern Christ characters, such as u. a. Gerhart Hauptmann's The Fool in Christo Emanuel Quint (1910), Ricarda Huch's grotesque Der recurring Christ (1926) or Alexander Pope's The Messiah (1712), which deals not with the historical Jesus but with Isaiah's prophecies .