Baptist, Jesus combined the model of an ‘oracular prophet’, bringing his message through spoken words and symbolic actions, and a ‘leadership prophet’, leading a renewal movement for the reconstitution of Israel.55 Specifically, Jesus of Nazareth proclaimed that through him God was bringing the coming of his kingdom, or rule, to Israel and the world. The stories Jesus told, the signs he performed, the praxis he encouraged and the attitude he showed towards the established symbols of Judaism
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