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A New Vision for Israel: The Teachings of Jesus in National Context is unavailable, but you can change that!

The most important development in recent historical Jesus studies is the attempt to understand the ministry of Jesus in “political” terms. In calling the nation of Israel to repentance, Jesus served as a national prophet concerned with the salvation of Israel. This new book by Scot McKnight furthers this line of inquiry by showing how Jesus’ teachings are to be understood in relation to his role...

in light of the newness of Jesus’ arrival as a call for the nation to repent?” Jesus’ commands, then, are to be explained in an old-fashioned covenantal framework: the God of the Covenant, the Holy One of Israel, is calling his people for the final time to radical covenantal obedience. The commands to follow Jesus before all else are nothing but the reaffirmation and reapplication of the first commandment: “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exod. 20:3). Once again, the foundation of this commandment,
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