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This work takes up two related questions with regard to Jesus: his intention and his relationship to his contemporaries in Judaism. These questions immediately lead to two others: the reason for his death (did his intention involve an opposition to Judaism which led to death?) and the motivating force behind the rise of Christianity (did the split between the Christian movement and Judaism...

of the temple’.22 That ‘use’ was trading, and Harvey writes that Jesus had good grounds for thinking that trade should not have been taking place in the temple precincts.23 Such comments as these are doubtless intended to distinguish the temple ordained by God—which Jesus did not attack—from the Jewish ‘abuse’ of the divine institution—which Jesus did attack. The way in which the distinction is made, however, implies that it is just the trade itself—the changing of money, the purchase of sacrifices,
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