particular are often driven by a desire to find some “principle” (love is the perennially favorite candidate) from which Jesus’ various teachings on the Law can be derived or deduced. But there is no such principle. To hark back to all that we have learned in the first three volumes of A Marginal Jew, Jesus saw himself as an eschatological prophet and miracle worker along the lines of Elijah. He was not a systematic teacher, scribe, or rabbi; he was a religious charismatic. Now it is of the nature