Ferdinand Hahn (1926-2015) was a stalwart of late-twentieth-century German biblical study. A student of Ernst Käsemann and Günther Bornkamm, after a period in church ministry he received a post as a research assistant to Professor Bornkamm in the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1956. He subsequently held chairs at Göttingen, Kiel, Mainz and Munich, and in later years was a lecturer at the Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Romania.

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• AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Son of Man1. Philological Problems and Problems connected with the History of Religion2. The Son of Man Concept and the Preaching of Jesus3. Words concerning the futre Action of the Son of Man4. Words concerning the earthly Deeds of the Son of Man5. Words concerning the Passion and Resurrection of the Son of ManExcursus I: The Idea of the Vicariously Suffering Servant of God in the Earliest ChristianityChapter 2. Kyrios1. The Hellenistic and Old Testament Use of the Title of Lord2. The Description of Jesus as Lord in the Palestinian Tradition3. The 'Lord' who is to come again4. The Exalted One as 'Kyrios'Excursus II: Psalm 110:1 and the Idea of the Exaltation of JesusChapter 3. Christos1. The Background in teh Old Testament and Late Judaism2. The Significance of the Messianic Concept in the Life of Jesus3. The Messianism of Jesus in the Oldest Tradition4. Jesus as Messiah in the Context of the Concept of Exaltaion5. The Connection of the Passion-Tradition with the Christos Title6. The Generalisation of the Christos Title and its Use as a Proper NameExcursus III: Analysis of Mark 8:27-33Excursus IV: The Conception of the High Priestly Messiah and the Primitive Christian TraditionChapter 4. Son of David1. Jesus as Son of David in the Oldest Tradition2. Jesus as Son of David in Hellenistic Jewish Christianity3. JThe Davidic Sonsihip of Jesus in the Nativity Narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and LukeChapter 5. Son of God1. The Presumptions of the early Christian Title Son of God2. Son of God as Designation of the Jesus who is to come again and of the Exalted One3. The Son of God Conception in Hellensitic Jewish Christianity4. Jesus as Son of God in Hellenistic Gentile Christianity5. Jesus as 'the Son'Excursus V: Analysis of the Transfiguration and Baptism NarrativesRetrospectAppendix: The Eschatological ProphetIndex of SubjectsIndex of Biblical Passages

Ferdinand Hahn (1926-2015) was a stalwart of late-twentieth-century German biblical study. A student of Ernst Käsemann and Günther Bornkamm, after a period in church ministry he received a post as a research assistant to Professor Bornkamm in the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1956. He subsequently held chairs at Göttingen, Kiel, Mainz and Munich, and in later years was a lecturer at the Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Romania.

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• AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Son of Man1. Philological Problems and Problems connected with the History of Religion2. The Son of Man Concept and the Preaching of Jesus3. Words concerning the futre Action of the Son of Man4. Words concerning the earthly Deeds of the Son of Man5. Words concerning the Passion and Resurrection of the Son of ManExcursus I: The Idea of the Vicariously Suffering Servant of God in the Earliest ChristianityChapter 2. Kyrios1. The Hellenistic and Old Testament Use of the Title of Lord2. The Description of Jesus as Lord in the Palestinian Tradition3. The 'Lord' who is to come again4. The Exalted One as 'Kyrios'Excursus II: Psalm 110:1 and the Idea of the Exaltation of JesusChapter 3. Christos1. The Background in teh Old Testament and Late Judaism2. The Significance of the Messianic Concept in the Life of Jesus3. The Messianism of Jesus in the Oldest Tradition4. Jesus as Messiah in the Context of the Concept of Exaltaion5. The Connection of the Passion-Tradition with the Christos Title6. The Generalisation of the Christos Title and its Use as a Proper NameExcursus III: Analysis of Mark 8:27-33Excursus IV: The Conception of the High Priestly Messiah and the Primitive Christian TraditionChapter 4. Son of David1. Jesus as Son of David in the Oldest Tradition2. Jesus as Son of David in Hellenistic Jewish Christianity3. JThe Davidic Sonsihip of Jesus in the Nativity Narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and LukeChapter 5. Son of God1. The Presumptions of the early Christian Title Son of God2. Son of God as Designation of the Jesus who is to come again and of the Exalted One3. The Son of God Conception in Hellensitic Jewish Christianity4. Jesus as Son of God in Hellenistic Gentile Christianity5. Jesus as 'the Son'Excursus V: Analysis of the Transfiguration and Baptism NarrativesRetrospectAppendix: The Eschatological ProphetIndex of SubjectsIndex of Biblical Passages

Ferdinand Hahn (1926-2015) was a stalwart of late-twentieth-century German biblical study. A student of Ernst Käsemann and Günther Bornkamm, after a period in church ministry he received a post as a research assistant to Professor Bornkamm in the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1956. He subsequently held chairs at Göttingen, Kiel, Mainz and Munich, and in later years was a lecturer at the Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Romania.

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• AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Son of Man1. Philological Problems and Problems connected with the History of Religion2. The Son of Man Concept and the Preaching of Jesus3. Words concerning the futre Action of the Son of Man4. Words concerning the earthly Deeds of the Son of Man5. Words concerning the Passion and Resurrection of the Son of ManExcursus I: The Idea of the Vicariously Suffering Servant of God in the Earliest ChristianityChapter 2. Kyrios1. The Hellenistic and Old Testament Use of the Title of Lord2. The Description of Jesus as Lord in the Palestinian Tradition3. The 'Lord' who is to come again4. The Exalted One as 'Kyrios'Excursus II: Psalm 110:1 and the Idea of the Exaltation of JesusChapter 3. Christos1. The Background in teh Old Testament and Late Judaism2. The Significance of the Messianic Concept in the Life of Jesus3. The Messianism of Jesus in the Oldest Tradition4. Jesus as Messiah in the Context of the Concept of Exaltaion5. The Connection of the Passion-Tradition with the Christos Title6. The Generalisation of the Christos Title and its Use as a Proper NameExcursus III: Analysis of Mark 8:27-33Excursus IV: The Conception of the High Priestly Messiah and the Primitive Christian TraditionChapter 4. Son of David1. Jesus as Son of David in the Oldest Tradition2. Jesus as Son of David in Hellenistic Jewish Christianity3. JThe Davidic Sonsihip of Jesus in the Nativity Narratives of the Gospels of Matthew and LukeChapter 5. Son of God1. The Presumptions of the early Christian Title Son of God2. Son of God as Designation of the Jesus who is to come again and of the Exalted One3. The Son of God Conception in Hellensitic Jewish Christianity4. Jesus as Son of God in Hellenistic Gentile Christianity5. Jesus as 'the Son'Excursus V: Analysis of the Transfiguration and Baptism NarrativesRetrospectAppendix: The Eschatological ProphetIndex of SubjectsIndex of Biblical Passages