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Apocalypticism, Anti-Semitism and the Historical Jesus: Subtexts in Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Virtually all scholars agree that apocalyptic and millenarianism formed at least part of the matrix of the culture in first-century Jewish Palestine, but there is a sharp disagreement concerning the extent to which Jesus shared apocalyptic and millenarian beliefs. Although there has been a great deal written defending or opposing an ‘apocalyptic Jesus’, almost nothing has been said on the...

‘No one denies Jesus’ Judaism, yet it is bitterly contested’.1 Ever since Géza Vermès’ Jesus the Jew and E.P. Sanders’ Jesus and Judaism,2 there has been a concerted and self-conscious effort to escape the theological supersessionism and lurking anti-Semitism that infected previous generations of scholarship on Jesus, which programmatically opposed Jesus to ‘Judaism’, the Torah’, and ‘Jewish religion’, denigrating—even demonizing—these in the process. At least part of the impetus for the renewed
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