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Book List B OOK L IST Books on the Historical Jesus BRYAN, Steven M., Jesus and Israel’s Traditions of Judgement and Restoration (SNTSMS, 117; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), hb, xvi + 278 pp. ISBN 052181183X. £50.00; $80.00. This revision of a doctoral dissertation completed at Cambridge University explores Jesus’ proclamation of judgment and restoration within the larger context of Israel’s prophetic tradi- tions. Topics from the life and teaching of Jesus that Bryan examines include the ‘sign of Jonah’, the use of vineyard and banquet imagery, the Elijah tradition, the establishment of ‘the Twelve’, the role of purity in Jesus’ teaching and activities, and Jesus’ action in the Temple, among others. Bryan concludes that, while Jesus is a prophet of Israel’s restoration, he did not simply appropriate the traditional features of Jewish restorationism. While continuing to announce Israel’s judgment, Jesus also held that ‘Israel’s restoration did not remain a wholly future event’ (p. 243). One implication of this view is that the traditional division between views of Jesus as social revolutionary and as eschatological prophet is breaking down. In Bryan’s view, Jesus is both. This brief description does not do justice to the clear, rich exegesis and argu- mentation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Brill

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Brill
Copyright
© 2005 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1476-8690
eISSN
1745-5197
DOI
10.1177/1476869005058198
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B OOK L IST Books on the Historical Jesus BRYAN, Steven M., Jesus and Israel’s Traditions of Judgement and Restoration (SNTSMS, 117; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), hb, xvi + 278 pp. ISBN 052181183X. £50.00; $80.00. This revision of a doctoral dissertation completed at Cambridge University explores Jesus’ proclamation of judgment and restoration within the larger context of Israel’s prophetic tradi- tions. Topics from the life and teaching of Jesus that Bryan examines include the ‘sign of Jonah’, the use of vineyard and banquet imagery, the Elijah tradition, the establishment of ‘the Twelve’, the role of purity in Jesus’ teaching and activities, and Jesus’ action in the Temple, among others. Bryan concludes that, while Jesus is a prophet of Israel’s restoration, he did not simply appropriate the traditional features of Jewish restorationism. While continuing to announce Israel’s judgment, Jesus also held that ‘Israel’s restoration did not remain a wholly future event’ (p. 243). One implication of this view is that the traditional division between views of Jesus as social revolutionary and as eschatological prophet is breaking down. In Bryan’s view, Jesus is both. This brief description does not do justice to the clear, rich exegesis and argu- mentation

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Journal for the Study of the Historical JesusBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2005

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