Jesus, Son of Mary<\\/h2>\\n \ Jesus is unlike any human ever born in that his human nature is derived soley from his mother. Yet we still call him \\u201cSon of Man,\\u201d a throwback to the past when \\u201cman\\u201d was understood to mean humanity. (In contemporary English, man most often means man, or male, woman continues to mean woman, or female, and humanity means humanity. Seems like an improvement on multiple levels.)<\\/p>\\n I explained that history to my daughter too, in simple terms. Did I go overboard? Maybe. But since Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man more than 80 times<\\/a>, it\\u2019s probably important to understand what he\\u2019s talking about.<\\/p>\\n If we want to better appreciate what this difficult term means, let\\u2019s start by correcting the English. Jesus isn\\u2019t really the Son of Man (with man<\\/em> understood by most children and many adults to be masculine) but the Son of Humanity.<\\/em><\\/p>\\n

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Son of Man? Jesus is human only because of his mother. Artwork by Gerard van Honthorst via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

For Advent this year, the children\u2019s ministry at my church, The Falls Church Anglican<\/a>, had the brilliant idea to create Advent calendars with names of Jesus for each day of the month. When my oldest daughter, who is six, read the name for day 21, she came running to me. \u201cMommy, what does \u2018Son of Man\u2019 mean?\u201d You see, she thought Jesus was the Son of God, so how could he also be the Son of Man? I explained that he was both: the Son of God, by virtue of his father, and the Son of Humanity, by virtue of his mother.<\/p>\n

Jesus, Son of Mary<\/h2>\n \ Jesus is unlike any human ever born in that his human nature is derived soley from his mother. Yet we still call him \u201cSon of Man,\u201d a throwback to the past when \u201cman\u201d was understood to mean humanity. (In contemporary English, man most often means man, or male, woman continues to mean woman, or female, and humanity means humanity. Seems like an improvement on multiple levels.)<\/p>\n I explained that history to my daughter too, in simple terms. Did I go overboard? Maybe. But since Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man more than 80 times<\/a>, it\u2019s probably important to understand what he\u2019s talking about.<\/p>\n If we want to better appreciate what this difficult term means, let\u2019s start by correcting the English. Jesus isn\u2019t really the Son of Man (with man<\/em> understood by most children and many adults to be masculine) but the Son of Humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Going Beyond (English) Words<\/h2>\n \u201cSon of Humanity\u201d in the original Greek is ho huios tou anthr\u014dpou, <\/em>or literally, the Son of the Human. Unfortunately, the Greek text analysis in BibleHub<\/a> renders anthropou<\/em> as \u201cman,\u201d as do most English Bible translations, but what is meant is humankind. As I\u2019ve noted before<\/a>, the ancient language here is ironically more gender inclusive.<\/p>\n Digging still deeper, when Jesus spoke of himself as the Son of Humanity, he actually wouldn\u2019t have been speaking Greek, but Aramaic. So it\u2019s hard to know for sure <\/i>exactly what he said. Some scholars<\/a> have speculated that the original Aramaic would have been bar (e)nash(a) <\/em>or the Hebrew equivalent, ben adam<\/em>.<\/p>\n An important side note: in English as well as in Hebrew, we associate adam <\/em>with Adam, the first man. But as William G. Witt notes<\/a>, the word adam<\/i> in Hebrew has no gender; it simply means person. It literally means earth<\/em>, and some scholars have translated the term in Genesis as earthling, or earth creature, to accurately capture both the origin of the word and its lack of gender specificity. It is only when Eve is created that Adam the man<\/i> emerges, with his name being a play on words. More on that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n We lose these important nuances in newer English translations of the Bible, such as the ESV, that trade accurate translations of gender for translations promoting male dominance<\/a>, and in older English translations, which do not reflect contemporary English. David Horrell, Professor of New Testament Studies at University of Exeter, summarizes this problem succinctly<\/a> in his essay on translating the Bible:<\/p>\n " \u2026translating anthr\u014dpos and `\u0101d\u0101m with non gender-specific terms such as \u2018person\u2019, \u2018human being\u2019, and so on\u2026simply mark in English a distinction already made in Hebrew and Greek [my emphasis]<\/strong>. Indeed, there is no translation-based reason, aside from conventional attachment to certain labels, why phrases like \u2018the son of man\u2019 (ho huios tou anthr\u014dpou) should not be rendered \u2018the son of the human\u2019, or similar, though even recent inclusive versions avoid such steps (cf. NRSV; NIVI). To object\u2026 is simply to utter a reactionary call to preserve what are becoming (and for good reason) archaisms in our language. Language is always evolving, and there is no more reason to preserve the \u2018generic\u2019 use of the term \u2018man\u2019 than to preserve King James archaisms like \u2018thee\u2019 and \u2018thou\u2019. But this current evolution, enmeshed as it is with political interests and commitments, is unsurprisingly contested: the generic use of the term \u2018man\u2019 both reflects and supports a social system in which the male gender is definitive, visible, preeminent; to change the language is to disrupt the system, with all its established relations of power and social organisation [my emphasis].<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Son of Humanity or the Human One?<\/h2>\n Interestingly, accordingly to Bible translator Joel Hoffman<\/a>, neither ben <\/i>in Hebrew nor uios<\/i> in Greek necessarily indicates \u201cson\u201d but can mean \u201cchild\u201d or \u201cmember of.\u201d In other words, the English translation \u201cSon of Man\u201d is problematic because it is \u201cdoubly gendered\u201d<\/a> in a way that the Greek and Hebrew are not. Moreover, the English phrase \u201cson of\u201d may be too literal an interpretation of ben<\/i>. For example, in Matthew 9:15, Hoffman states that the words we translate to \u201cwedding guests\u201d would literally be sons of the weddinghall<\/i>. Yet \u201cwedding guests\u201d is clearly the most appropriate English translation.<\/p>\n In sum, in view of the original languages, the English phrase \u201cSon of Man\u201d not only invokes gender in a questionable way but potentially complicates the meaning, as an overly literal translation.<\/p>\n Hoffman notes that the Common English Bible (CEB) translation addresses these issues by rendering Son of Man, or Son of Humanity, as \u201cthe Human One.\u201d<\/p>\n Jesus\u2019 Humanity<\/h2>\n Regardless of the original language (Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew), the English translation \u201cSon of Man\u201d doesn\u2019t seem adequate because it emphasizes masculinity (Jesus\u2019 and ours) over humanity. This is also the opposite<\/i> of how Paul characterizes Jesus. Witt points out in Icons of Christ<\/a> that Paul stresses the humanity of Jesus in redeeming fallen humanity \u2013 not Jesus the man redeeming Adam the man. For example, in Romans, Paul writes: \u201cJust as sin came into the world through the one human being (anthr\u014dpos<\/em>) Adam, so God\u2019s grace has come through the one human being (anthr\u014dpos<\/em>) Jesus Christ\u201d (5:12). Paul continues: \u201c\u2026the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one human (anthropos<\/em>) Jesus Christ abounded for many (Rm 5:15).\u201d If Paul had instead wanted to stress Jesus\u2019 masculinity, he could have used the Greek word aner<\/em>, which means man, but he did not. He didn\u2019t even use aner<\/em> for Adam!\u00a0 Why? In telling the story of human redemption in this way, what Paul illustrates is that Adam and Christ are representative of humanity not because they are male<\/em> but because they are human.<\/em><\/p>\n Unfortunately, most English translations of the Bible do not note the distinction in Greek here between human<\/em> and man<\/em>. Thus the original sense of anthropos<\/em> is lost, and the word that Paul avoided, man<\/em>, is used instead.<\/p>\n Our Son<\/h2>\n* The term \u201cSon of Humanity\u201d or \u201cthe Human One\u201d better captures who Jesus is and how he was actually described by Paul, who expounded on the new humanity that Jesus calls into being. Of course, Jesus was a man, but first and foremost: he was human.<\/p>\n But what does Son of Humanity \/ the Human One actually mean?<\/p>\n I told my daughter that Jesus, as Mary\u2019s son, represents the entire human race before God, although he is God. 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