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Who Did Jesus Think He Was?
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 11
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This book questions the lives of Jesus that say he did not think of himself as Messiah. It argues that Jews held that the Messiah would at first come to suffer and even to die. The Messiah could not say who he was; he would act as Messiah, waiting for God the Father to announce him king. The sayings of Jesus claiming or hinting that he was the Messiah are inauthentic in those respects, yet Jesus knew he was the Messiah. He knew he could be wrong, being fully human and fully divine, so he could be tempted. He died willingly for the sins of the world. He and other Jews believed in the Trinity.
J.C. O'Neill, graduate in history of the University of Melbourne, Australia, Ph.D. (1959), University of Cambridge, is Professor of New Testament, New College, University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the New Testament and Jewish writing of the time.
'The volume is, as one has come to expect from O'Neill, highly-informed and marvellously researched, providing along the way a wealth of interesting insights and useful parallels.'
Mark Goodacre, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 1997.
Mark Goodacre, Reviews in Religion and Theology, 1997.
All those interested in the life of Jesus, the history of Second Temple Judaism, Christian doctrine as well as historians of the Roman Empire, historians of modern thought and philosophers.