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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...

darkness (cf. John 3:19). After hearing the parable of the vineyard, ‘[the chief priests and scribes and the elders] perceived that he had told the parable against them …’ (Mark 12:12). Ḥanukkah means ‘dedication’: the feast marked the rededication of the temple after the occupying and polluting Syrians had been driven out in 164 BCE (1 Macc. 4:36–59). ‘Blameless priests’ were appointed when the temple was repossessed, and new furnishings were made. The polluted stones of the old altar were set aside
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