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John P. Meier
A comprehensive scholarly examination of the historical Jesus focusing on his role as mentor and teacher, his message, and his miracle-working reputation as attested in the Gospels and Josephus. Meier engages extensively with contemporary Jesus research (the 'third quest') while providing detailed textual analysis and historiographical argumentation.
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What this book knows
Historical-critical scrutiny of Jesus' beatitudes and kingdom proclamation reveals a Jewish eschatological prophet whose core message is recoverable beneath the Gospel layers.
faith-and-doubt
If isolated from any larger context, the beatitudes are open to a number of different interpretations. Hence I have purposely kept them until now.
MJRH-RC-635Jesus sums up all eschatological good, all that is to come and to be hoped for, in terms of the kingdom of God.
MJRH-RC-649belonging
Happy are the mourners, for they shall be comforted. Happy are the hungry, for they shall be satisfied.
MJRH-RC-640Even in Jewish eschatological hope centered on a restored Jerusalem and a regathered Israel, the future beatitude of consolation appears.
MJRH-RC-642obedience-and-authority
Are there positive reasons for thinking that the core beatitudes we have isolated from the Q tradition actually come from the historical Jesus?
MJRH-RC-643The growing tendency in the Four Gospels to play down the promise of an imminent end may echo the relative weight Jesus himself gave to future and present dimensions.
MJRH-RC-663Illuminates
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