Jesus and the Temple: The Crucifixion in its Jewish Context

✍ Scribed by Simon J. Joseph

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 344
Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

Links the Temple incident and Jesus' death while carefully distinguishing between historical and theological interpretations of both
Resolves long-standing contradictions and inconsistencies about the Temple and sacrifice in New Testament studies and Jesus research
Provides a historically compelling explanation for why Jesus died

✦ Table of Contents

The death of Jesus as an historical and theological problem
The eschatological Torah
The eschatological Temple
The Temple controversy
Redescribing the Temple incident: towards a new model of eschatological restoration
The Jewish Christian rejection of animal sacrifice
The dying savior
Summary and conclusion.

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