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The second edition of the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels is a thoroughly reconstructed and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1992 first edition. Since that groundbreaking volume was published, a wave of Jesus and Gospel scholarship has crested and broken on the shores of a new century. Jesus has been proposed as sage, shaman, revolutionary, marginal Jew, Mediterranean peasant or a...

with God’s saving purpose. In the end, Jesus undercuts the authority of those who use the Scripture and the temple system to tyrannize and oppress the weak (Lk 20:45–21:4) and forecasts the calamity and destruction that will come as the old world order gives way to the new (Lk 21:5–38). . The twin motifs of conflict and the fulfillment of God’s purpose reach their climax. On the one side are Jesus, who is aligned with the divine aim, together with
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