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Jesus Remembered presents the lessons to be learned from the quest for the historical Jesus, focusing on the insights gained during this 200-year-old quest and assessing whether or not they are still valid, and, if so, to what degree? This book also argues that the Gospel traditions clearly portray the remembered Jesus, as they display how he impacted his first followers. For decades James D. G....

the life described there as ‘in/within Judaism’ is marked by the same total commitment to traditional religious practices and by the same hostility to anything which would dilute or defile Israel’s distinctiveness. The fierceness of this reaction is indicated particularly by the terms ‘zeal’ (Phil. 3:6) and ‘zealot’ (Gal. 1:14). These terms are prominent in describing Maccabean motivation,25 where Phinehas is presented as the great role model (1 Macc. 2:26, 54; 4 Macc. 18:12) and the war-cry is ‘zeal
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