The Messiah Confrontation

Author : Israel Knohl
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827618999
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Messiah Confrontation written by Israel Knohl and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Messiah Confrontation casts new and fascinating light on why Jesus was killed. Grounded in meticulous research on the messianism debates in the Bible and during the Second Temple period, biblical scholar Israel Knohl argues that Jesus’s trial was in reality a dramatic clash between two Jewish groups holding opposing ideologies of messianism and anti-messianism, with both ideologies running through the Bible. The Pharisees (forefathers of the rabbinic sages) and most of the Jewish people had a conception of a Messiah similar to Jesus: like the prophets and most psalmists, they expected the arrival of a godlike Messiah. However, the judges who sentenced Jesus to death were Sadducees, who were fighting with the Pharisees largely because they repudiated the Messiah idea. Thus, the trial of Jesus was not a clash between Jewish and what would become Christian doctrines but a confrontation between two internal Jewish positions—expecting a Messiah or rejecting the Messiah idea—in which Jesus and the Pharisees were actually on the same side. Knohl contends that had the assigned judges been Pharisees rather than Sadducees, Jesus would not have been convicted and crucified. The Pharisees’ disagreement with Jesus was solely over whether Jesus was the Messiah—but historically, for Jews, arguing about who was or wasn’t the Messiah was not uncommon. The Messiah Confrontation has far-reaching consequences for the relationship between Christians and Jews.

Author : Israel Knohl
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0827618980
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Messiah Confrontation written by Israel Knohl and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Top Ten Book from the Academy of Parish Clergy The Messiah Confrontation casts new and fascinating light on why Jesus was killed. Grounded in meticulous research on the messianism debates in the Bible and during the Second Temple period, biblical scholar Israel Knohl argues that Jesus's trial was in reality a dramatic clash between two Jewish groups holding opposing ideologies of messianism and anti-messianism, with both ideologies running through the Bible. The Pharisees (forefathers of the rabbinic sages) and most of the Jewish people had a conception of a Messiah similar to Jesus: like the prophets and most psalmists, they expected the arrival of a godlike Messiah. However, the judges who sentenced Jesus to death were Sadducees, who were fighting with the Pharisees largely because they repudiated the Messiah idea. Thus, the trial of Jesus was not a clash between Jewish and what would become Christian doctrines but a confrontation between two internal Jewish positions--expecting a Messiah or rejecting the Messiah idea--in which Jesus and the Pharisees were actually on the same side. Knohl contends that had the assigned judges been Pharisees rather than Sadducees, Jesus would not have been convicted and crucified. The Pharisees' disagreement with Jesus was solely over whether Jesus was the Messiah--but historically, for Jews, arguing about who was or wasn't the Messiah was not uncommon. The Messiah Confrontation has far-reaching consequences for the relationship between Christians and Jews.

Author : Israel Knohl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441131612
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Messiahs and Resurrection in 'The Gabriel Revelation' written by Israel Knohl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It features the first discussion of the recently discovered text 'The Gabriel Revelation' - an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. This tablet provides revolutionary paths to the understanding of the historical Jesus and the birth of Christianity. It explores the formation of the conception of "catastrophic messianism" in the Gabriel Revelation. According to this conception, the death of a messianic leader and his resurrection by the angel Gabriel after three days is an essential part of the redemptive process. This conception is a new key which enables us for the first time to understand the messianic vision of the historical Jesus. This important and fascinating book will thus shed new and revolutionary light on our basic view of Christianity.

Author : Israel Knohl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520215924
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Messiah Before Jesus written by Israel Knohl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet Argues that there was a "messianic forerunner" to Jesus named Menachem who lived a generation earlier & served as a sort of role model for Jesus & his messianic movement.

Author : Peter Krul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986486302
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Messianic Confrontation written by Peter Krul and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MESSIANIC CONFRONTATION is based on the perception that the Lord showed the Prophet Daniel (Dan. 12:9) and the Apostle John (Rev. 10:4) a vision and then commanded to seal what they heard until the Last Days (Dan. 12:9). A study of the two scriptures reveals that both visions had the same background. This signifies that the two servants sealed the same knowledge. The divine command of the sealing renders the traditional scenarios about the sealing to be spurious, premature interpretations of the Scriptures. Apparently independent from the Scriptures, the Lord showed the Prophet Isaiah in a vision that during the Last Days, the Law of God would be established (Isaiah 2:1-4.) A study of the knowledge that was sealed reveals that Isaiah implied the sealing of the Law of God. The implied sealing was to ensure that the people would not prematurely discover the profound nature of the knowledge that was sealed. When the people would study the sealed Law, they would discern the link to the Isaiah vision. The sealed Law is not a law of commandments, but a law of creation. The Law primarily reveals a creation model, which in a definitive setting, establishes two fundamental profound precepts: one, God exists without having been created; two, Jesus Christ is the only way to God. Furthermore, the Law reveals the Scenario for the transition to Paradise of the people who profess that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. The Law has the potential to reveal the truth about Christ. The Law also reveals the destiny of the people who do not make the transition.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226576477
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism and Christianity in the Age of Constantine written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the conversion of Constantine in 312, Christianity began a period of political and cultural dominance that it would enjoy until the twentieth century. Jacob Neusner contradicts the prevailing view that following Christianity's ascendancy, Judaism continued to evolve in isolation. He argues that because of the political need to defend its claims to religious authenticity, Judaism was forced to review itself in the context of a triumphant Christianity. The definition of issues long discussed in Judaism—the meaning of history, the coming of the Messiah, and the political identity of Israel—became of immediate and urgent concern to both parties. What emerged was a polemical dialogue between Christian and Jewish teachers that was unprecedented. In a close analysis of texts by the Christian theologians Eusebius, Aphrahat, and Chrysostom on one hand, and of the central Jewish works the Talmud of the Land of Israel, the Genesis Rabbah, and the Leviticus Rabbah on the other, Neusner finds that both religious groups turned to the same corpus of Hebrew scripture to examine the same fundamental issues. Eusebius and Genesis Rabbah both address the issue of history, Chrysostom and the Talmud the issue of the Messiah, and Aphrahat and Leviticus Rabbah the issue of Israel. As Neusner demonstrates, the conclusions drawn shaped the dialogue between the two religions for the rest of their shared history in the West.

Author : T. J. Knab
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826332042
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Jesus written by T. J. Knab and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book not only provides an overview of the Huichol and the plight of Mesoamerican Indians but also sheds light on traditional religion, indigenous Catholicism, messianic cults, urbanization, and indigenous conflicts with the modern Mexican state."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981888771
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus and Judas written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures*Discusses various theories surrounding Judas's betrayal*Includes excerpts from Scripture *Includes a bibliography for further readingThe life story of Jesus of Nazareth, considered by billions of Christians to be the Messiah prophesized in the Old Testament of the Bible, is perhaps the most famous in history. Described in detail in the New Testament, Jesus comes from both divine yet humble roots, born in a manger to a young woman, but in time he leads a fervent following as tales of his miracles spread across the Holy Land.Some of the details are vividly depicted and instantly familiar. Jesus announces the imminent rule of God, the time when the true owner of this world will intervene decisively in Israel�s history to make right all the wrongs, once and for all. He leaves his footprints by the lakeside. He has no shoes, just like the multitude of dispossessed behind him; he doesn�t carry a money bag, not even a stick. He is followed not by the poor, since most of the people here live in poverty and resent in every way the invasive process of large-scale urbanization that the Roman Empire brought to Israel; he is instead followed by the dispossessed, the people who have nothing left, except their debts, the tax burden and the institutionalized violence that took away their means of livelihood, leaving them with not even a place to rest their heads. They avoid the roads full of armed rebels who have been resisting the Pax Romana for years, and they follow a leader who proclaimed himself Son of God throughout the Empire. The crucifixion and resurrection that follow create the climactic resolution of Jesus' life story and cement his status as the Christ, at least in the eyes of the burgeoning religious movement that would sweep across the region in the coming decades. An anonymous writer would compose the first gospel, Mark, and the major theme would be the way of Jesus to his death. His followers, whose movement would originally be called "the way," would also bring about a new religion that has lasted 20 centuries, and while it is focused on the figure of Jesus, the rural man of Israel who started it all, the historical Jesus was gradually enshrined under layers of sermons, chants, legends and philosophies that would be alien to Jews in Jesus's day. Like ideological strata, they covered the historical facts, obscuring the Jesus of history under the Christ of faith. Even someone with a casual knowledge of the Bible will recognize the name Judas Iscariot. Well known as the disciple who betrayed Jesus, the Messiah, with a kiss, Judas has become synonymous with betrayal and deception. The most infamous of the Apostles, Judas goes from true follower to a turncoat who seemingly sacrifices the cause for personal benefit. Not surprisingly, the names of the other disciples will appear in birth registries around the world, except for Judas, whose name is still associated with suspicion and even fear.It goes without saying that Judas is an interesting character in the development of the salvation history. His person, his act of betrayal and even his replacement were predicted by the Old Testament prophets, which some Biblical scholars take as evidence that Judas was doomed from the beginning to be the betrayer and had no choice. But by taking a closer look at the history, the reader will see several points along the way, even up to the moment of the final kiss, in which Jesus gave Judas the opportunity to repent. God's plan was going to be fulfilled, and God was going to use an individual to bring about the betrayal of Jesus, but at the same time, Judas made several conscious choices along the way to reject the Messiah and turn Jesus over to the Roman authorities. At the same time, a relatively recent discovery has cast doubt on the traditional understanding of Judas's life and actions. Any book about Judas must explore the known and unknown of his life, and the actions that led to Christ's crucifixion.

Author : John F. MacArthur
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785243011
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus Unleashed written by John F. MacArthur and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk through the gospel records of the “bold confrontations” of Jesus and discover how to use your newfound knowledge of the person of Jesus to defend the biblical truth of the Christian faith. Do you have any idea who Jesus really is? “What you think of Jesus Christ will thoroughly color how you think about everything else,” writes John MacArthur. This is a critical truth in the life of every believer. Your view of Jesus affects the way you view God, the world, and every one of your decisions. These days, Jesus is often portrayed as a pacifist, a philanthropist, or a docile teacher. He strikes a plastic--and sometimes pathetic--pose in the minds of many. Some prefer the meek and mild Jesus who heals the sick, calms fears, and speaks of peace and goodwill. These things do represent a portion of the Messiah. But tragically, too many have never been exposed to the rest of him. They have never seen a full 360-degree view of the Savior. His boldness in the face of confrontation and why that matters. Until now. Abridged from his classic bestseller, The Jesus You Can’t Ignore, Jesus Unleashed takes a revealing walk through the gospel records. Like an investigative journalist on a mission, author and teacher John MacArthur shows you a remarkable and compelling picture of Jesus unleashed.

Author : D. Brian Shafer
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768499631
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Confrontation written by D. Brian Shafer and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWith the long-dreaded Seed of the woman delivered at Bethlehem, the prophecy of the Coming One has now been fulfilled. Lucifer realizes that any hope to win the war is slipping away and decides upon a desperate gamble - he will have to face the Son personally. With his demonic host to assist him, Lucifer makes plans to cut the Messiah down once and for all. Boasting that he will more than bruise His heal, Lucifer decides to destroy the Son from within his inner circle and sets his heart upon a dark plan that will end on the darkest day in history - or so he believes./divDIV Set in and around Jerusalem, Final Confrontation describes the death match between light and darkness that reaches a brutal and bloody climax at Calvary./div