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Are You the One Who Is to Come?: The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Jesus understood himself as designated by God as the Messiah of Israel.” This thesis may strike many historical-Jesus scholars as dangerously bold. But through careful study of the Gospels, Second Temple literature, and other period texts, scholar Michael Bird makes a persuasive argument that Jesus saw himself as performing the role attributed to the messiah—in the Scriptures of Israel—and...

I do not wish to detract in any way from readers’ digesting for themselves Bird’s arguments or savoring his conclusions, but I do wish to note some of his wording along the way as he expounds the various parts of his positive argument in chapter 4. Regarding the use of the term “Son of man,” Bird says that Jesus “can even use it to make tacit references to his divinely given regal-like authority,” and as this “Son of man” Jesus “is already exercising the dominion of the Messiah.” With regard to Jesus’s
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