THE MYTH OF THE EXALTATION OF MAN. ANTECEDENTS OF THE JOANIC CHRIST OLOGY OF THE SON OF MAN

Abstract

The article provides antecedents of the Joanic Christology of the Son of man. These present aspects of the myth of the Gloria of Yahweh in human form and his exaltation to the heavens, existing in apocalyptic Jewish traditions. The investigation will show, through an intertextuality of apocalyptic Jews, the existence of this myth in a similar way to how it is found in the fourth gospel. The study shows this tradition is linked to apocalyptic groups which consider the problem of the transcendence of God and his radical intervention in history as being linked to the idea of martyrdom of its people, of a heavenly mediator described in anthropomorphic terms, who would be exalted, and who would carry out judgement. Despite the fact that a definitive answer to the question of a link between the two themes has become a simultaneous analysis of Joanic relations, we consider that these antecedents developed apocalyptic roots of the incarnation and the Joanic Christology of the Son of man.