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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2015
      08 January 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316408933
      9781107125353
      9781107563513
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316408933
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 342 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 342 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion, Theology
      Series:
      Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (165)
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    Subjects:
    Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion, Theology
    Series:
    Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (165)
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    Most Jesus specialists agree that the Temple incident led directly to Jesus' arrest, but the precise relationship between Jesus and the Temple's administration remains unclear. Jesus and the Temple examines this relationship, exploring the reinterpretation of Torah observance and traditional Temple practices that are widely considered central components of the early Jesus movement. Challenging a growing tendency in contemporary scholarship to assume that the earliest Christians had an almost uniformly positive view of the Temple's sacrificial system, Simon J. Joseph addresses the ambiguous, inconsistent, and contradictory views on sacrifice and the Temple in the New Testament. This volume fills a significant gap in the literature on sacrifice in Jewish Christianity. It introduces a new hypothesis positing Jesus' enactment of a program of radically nonviolent eschatological restoration, an orientation that produced Jesus' conflicts with his contemporaries and inspired the first attributions of sacrificial language to his death.

    Reviews

    'There is much to be commended in this book. Jesus and the Temple is a very readable and well-researched investigation into the circumstances of Jesus’s death. … an engaging read and one full of tantalizing possibilities. Joseph’s arguments deserve to be taken seriously by anyone interested in the study of the historical Jesus and the question of why he died.'

    Timothy Wardle Source: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

    '… this is an excellent scholarly work on the historical Jesus and an insightful resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses on the topic.'

    Yongbom Lee Source: Horizons

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