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The twentieth and current centuries have paraded countless pictures of Jesus before an impressionable public. If we have learned anything of all this, it is that the available evidence, cautiously and sympathetically evaluated, will in all probability always lend itself to a range of possible views of Jesus: the Jewish martyr, the unworldly sage, the failed rebel, the messianic Son of God. This...

of hope in the promise of a redeemer king in the line of David. In the light of this, post-exilic Judaism witnessed a powerful development of eschatology, specifically of the hope in a future national and spiritual restoration. Passages like 2 Samuel 7 kept alive the hope for another anointed Son of David (expressed with great urgency in Psalm 89), and Deuteronomy 18:15 raised the hopes of a great “prophet like Moses”. (Since the time of Malachi, this prophet may also have been understood as someone
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