[Rezension von: Cho, Bernardo, Royal messianism and the Jerusalem priesthood in the Gospel of Mark]
Bernardo Cho’s monograph, a revision of his PhD thesis completed at the University of Edinburgh, focuses on the question of the relation between the post-restoration royal messiah and priesthood in the Gospel of Mark. Given the scriptural expectation that priest and king acknowledge one another in t...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 849-851 |
| Review of: | Royal messianism and the Jerusalem priesthood in the Gospel of Mark (London : T&T Clark, 2019) (Sloan, Paul T.)
Royal messianism and the Jerusalem priesthood in the Gospel of Mark (London : T & T Clark, 2019) (Sloan, Paul T.) Royal messianism and the Jerusalem priesthood in the gospel of Mark (New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019) (Sloan, Paul T.) |
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| Summary: | Bernardo Cho’s monograph, a revision of his PhD thesis completed at the University of Edinburgh, focuses on the question of the relation between the post-restoration royal messiah and priesthood in the Gospel of Mark. Given the scriptural expectation that priest and king acknowledge one another in the eschatological age (adduced from patterns in 1 Kings 1, 3, 10 and Zech. 6:12-13 and 9:9-10), Cho asks how Jesus, who is portrayed as a royal figure, relates to the Jerusalem priests in the Gospel of Mark. After introducing the reader to his basic goals and method, the latter of which focuses ‘on the final form of Mark’s narrative, while also placing it against its historical context’ (p. 16), Cho surveys late Second Temple literature to examine patterns of expected relations between the eschatological priest(s) and king/messiah. Cho surveys the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in Chapter 2 the pseudepigraphical texts, and demonstrates various expectations regarding the organization of the post-restoration polity of king and priest. Within this expected diversity, however, Cho concludes that ‘the consistent pattern … is that, whenever awaiting the coming of the eschatological king, the literature also anticipates the restoration of the Israelite worship system… . To speak of the royal messiah is therefore to envisage the defeat of Israel’s enemies … and the establishment of a pristine priestly class’ (pp. 76-7). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa111 |