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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...

hardness of heart in later biblical texts. Both Jeremiah (5:21) and Ezekiel (12:2) picked up these words to describe hardness of heart in their own day. The Synoptic evangelists all use Isaiah 6:9–10 sandwiched between the parable of the sower and its interpretation for the same purpose.6 Far from being intended to prevent hearing, these words are intended to shock people out of hardness of heart and to bring about hearing. English translations do not show it, but Mark 4:3 begins literally, “Hear,
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