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Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man: A Commentary on Mark 13 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospels contain many hard sayings of Jesus, but perhaps none have puzzled and intrigued readers as much as Jesus’ discourse on the coming of the Son of Man in Mark 13. Is Jesus speaking entirely of an event in the near future, a coming destruction of the temple? Or is he referring to a distant, end-of-the-world event? Or might he even be speaking of both near and distant events? But in that...

is in the Hebrew Old Testament tô ʿēbôt and in the LXX anomia. In Daniel the term used for “abomination” in the Hebrew Old Testament is šiqqûṣ and in the LXX bdelugma. In addition it should be noted that the term in Ezekiel is always plural, whereas in the two main references in Daniel 11:31 and 12:11 the term is singular. Most importantly we should note that whereas in Ezekiel 8–9 the abominations are the cause of God’s judgment of Jerusalem by Babylon in 587 B.C., the abomination of desolation
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