Jesus and the temple : the crucifixion in its Jewish context / Simon J. Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Simon J., 1966- author.

Series:

Monograph series (Society for New Testament Studies)

Society for New Testament Studies monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Jewishness.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--Jewish interpretations.

Jesus Christ--Passion--Role of Jews.

Jesus Christ--Crucifixion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Jesus & the Temple

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-48210-3

1-316-48468-8

1-316-48511-0

1-316-48769-5

1-316-48554-4

1-316-40893-0

1-316-48597-8