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4 - Jesus and the Destruction of the Temple

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2023

Michael Patrick Barber
Foreword by
Dale Allison
Michael Patrick Barber
Affiliation:
Augustine Institute of Theology, Colorado
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Summary

This chapter treats an apparent conundrum: if Jesus affirmed the temple’s holiness, how do we explain material that suggests he anticipated its coming demise? The argument is made that the case that such predictions reflect impressions made by Jesus himself is strong. Matthew, it is demonstrated, helps us see how such material could be integrated with a perspective that affirms the temple’s holiness. Among other key traditions, this chapter treats the accounts of Jesuss temple act as well as the charges leveled against him at his trial.

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70 C.E.Jerusalem TempleApocalypticEschatological DiscourseOlivet DiscourseProphecyJewish WarTrial of JesusJewish EschatologyCleansing of the Temple
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The Historical Jesus and the Temple
Memory, Methodology, and the Gospel of Matthew
 , pp. 81 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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