Arms and The Man: A Response to Dale Martin’s ‘Jesus in Jerusalem: Armed and Not Dangerous’
Did Jesus oppose the temple? Did he predict its destruction? Against the recent proposals of Dale Martin, this article argues that the evidence is controvertible. However, the article does agree that Jesus’ followers were probably armed with μάχαιραι; but so was a significant proportion of Jerusalem’...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2015, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 312-325 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Temple B Jesus B Passover B Jerusalem B swords |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Did Jesus oppose the temple? Did he predict its destruction? Against the recent proposals of Dale Martin, this article argues that the evidence is controvertible. However, the article does agree that Jesus’ followers were probably armed with μάχαιραι; but so was a significant proportion of Jerusalem’s male population, specifically at Passover. These ‘arms’, then, cannot explain Jesus’ arrest and execution. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X14566371 |