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The Messiah Confrontation argues that Jesus was convicted and crucified because of a confrontation between two Jewish ideologies—expecting a Messiah or rejecting the Messiah idea—in which Jesus and the Pharisees (the majority of Jews) were actually on the same side.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Birth of the Messianic Figure
2. Rejection of the Kingship Concept
3. Reconceiving the Messiah
4. Messianic Rise and Fall of “the Branch”
5. Shifting Sands of Torah Authority
6. Torah Distinctions between the Human and the Divine
7. Introducing Resurrection of the Dead into Jewish Thought
8. The Sadducees’ Denial of the Doctrine of Reward
9. Qumran Accounts of an Exalted and Suffering Messiah
10. The Pharisees’ Expectations of an Imminent Messiah
11. Jesus’s Messianic Conception
12. The Trial of Jesus
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index
Scriptural Index
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Israel Knohl is Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible Studies emeritus at the Hebrew University–Jerusalem and a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of
The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices (JPS, 2003),
The Sanctuary of Silence: The Priestly Torah and the Holiness School, and
The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Knohl has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of California–Berkeley, and the Chicago Divinity School.
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The Messiah Confrontation argues that Jesus was convicted and crucified because of a confrontation between two Jewish ideologies—expecting a Messiah or rejecting the Messiah idea—in which Jesus and the Pharisees (the majority of Jews) were actually on the same side.
