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Professor David Flusser’s biography of the life of Jesus is the fruit of almost fifty years of personal research concerning what may be considered the most well-known figure of the Second Temple Period. His philological-historical approach calls for a reconsideration of how we read the literary sources. He brings to bear the wealth of new information regarding the first-century setting in light...

allowed because it is a “messianic license”—otherwise, this sort of thing would be revolutionary. This is a correct assessment, for the preaching of Jesus is indeed revolutionary and subversive: and Jesus knew it! (Matt. 10:16). For Jesus and the rabbis, the kingdom of God is both present and future, but their perspectives are different. When Jesus was asked when the kingdom was to come, he said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or
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