By James D. G. Dunn
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19, 29; Rom. 13-18). 53. See further my Romans (WBC 38; Dallas: Word, 1988) 875-76; and below. 4. 54. See Jesus Rememliered § 13 n. 1-14. The link forward to the Pbionites ("poor men') is also important (see. g.. Karpp. 'Christennamen' 1117). 55. 4. 56. 3; and cf. 14-15 (see Harnack, Mission 419-21). 57. 2 D; 1 Pel. 18; cf. MaU. 17. 58. 47; 1 Cor. 18; 2 Cor. 15; litzmyer. 'Designations" 226; Fitzmyer includes witnesses of the risen Christ" (224). 28-29; 1 Pet. 23), 'the company (pleilwsf ( . \ c t s 4 .
T. Hanson, The Image of the Invisible God (London: SCM, 1982); J. Habermann. Prdexislenzaussagen im Neimi Testament (Prankfurt: Lang. 1990). 112. D. B. 47: Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992). 1 I 3. R. J. 2 I h e u s e o f wisdom language for Chrisl, I h e reference of 'Yahweh lexis' l o Christ, and the devotion offered through Christ"-* t o be understood not cjuite s o s t r a i g h t f o r w a r d l y ? " ^ If t h e former, then indeed the forward gap l o later d o g m a is much diminished, but t h e backward gap lo J e s u s ' own self-claims increases dramatically and the significance of his pre-passion mission recedes into t h e distance.
His crucial finding was that "two opposing parties with a ver\ distinct difference of views had come into being as early as th(>se early times in which Christianity had yet hardly begun to break through the narrow hounds of Judaism and to open up for itself a successful field of work in the pagan world" (cited by Kiimmcl. New Tesiiinienl 129-30). Baur argued that the Christ party and the Cephas party in I Cor. 12 were one and the same, so that the slogans attested only two parties. It was J. Weiss.