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King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John’s Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Only John’s Gospel says that Jesus was crucified as Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews. In this volume, Margaret Barker analyzes how Jesus was the keeper of the ways of the first temple in Jerusalem, which had almost been lost when the Moses traditions came to dominate in the second-temple period. Jesus’ mission was to restore the ways of the original temple. Baker uses temple theology to...

New Testament Gospels say the Baptist fulfilled one prophecy from the Second-Isaiah: ‘A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD” ’, but the text continues: ‘and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed’ (Isa. 40:3, 5). The restoration of which the prophet spoke would turn darkness to light and lead the blind in a new way. It was compared to a woman with labour pains about to give birth (Isa. 42:14–17); and the great proclamation ‘Behold your God’, ’elohȋm’, was by a female figure:
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