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For several decades, the Jewishness of Jesus has been at the forefront of scholarship. Students of the New Testament are more than ever aware of the importance of understanding Jesus and the Gospels in their Jewish context. In Reading Mark in Context, a team of Gospel scholars explore the Gospel of Mark in light of Second Temple Jewish literature. Over the last several decades, the Jewishness of...

of the crowds (1:22, 27). Whoever Jesus is, he is not just another one of “the teachers of the law” (1:22). . Like Mark’s portrait of Jesus in these first few chapters of his Gospel, the Parables paint a picture of a Son of Man with divine authority given to him by God. However, this figure is portrayed distinctively in the two texts. This may suggest a similar theological understanding of the Son of Man that pervades the use of the term, while also reflecting the way
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