Jesus’ Death and the Temple in the Gospel of Mark

The Death of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
The purpose of my last few months of research has been to explore, within the narrative of the gospel of Mark, the link between Jesus’ death and the Temple.  This link is clearly to be seen at the surface level of the passion narratives where the  Temple [...]

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Richard Bauckham and James Crossley: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Richard Bauckham, who recently recieved the prestigious Ramsey Prize, discusses his book Jesus and Eyewitnesses with James Crossley.  Click Here for the audio
Thanks to Chris Tilling for the link.

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Mark 13: The Temple, tribulation and the arrival of the Eschaton Part 4

Vindication of the Son of Man
R.T France rejects a parousia understanding of this passage as the text does not speak of the ’son of man’ coming to earth but on the basis of its Daniellic background is to be understood, with Mark 8:38, as ‘enthronement, of the the ‘one like the son of man’ coming [...]

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Mark 13: The Temple, Tribulation and the Arrival of the Eschaton Part 3

‘The Coming of the Son of Man: Mark 13:24-27

Although popular and naive positivist readings from the text can lead us, at times, to similar interpretative conclusions as the most ardent hermeneutically sensitive scholar.1—I do not want to place authentic reading of scripture simply into the realm of the academy—the hermeneutical chasm, in passages, [...]

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Mark 13: Temple, Tribulation and the Arrival of the Eschaton, part 2

Mark 13: The Day of YHWH

Timothy Geddert, follows T.J Weeden in locating the ‘interpretative key’ to Mark 13 in a different pericope of Mark. Weeden asks the question,

‘Where one began looking in the Gospel for help in interpreting chapter 13 would be the key methodological issue. The soundest methodological procedure would be to [...]

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Tasty Worldview Quote

Naugle, in his significant study of the concept of worldview, describes the crucial role of stories and meta-narratives..
‘These stories that establish a symbolic world do indeed guide all forms of human activity. Worldview narratives create a particular kind of ‘mind’, and serve in a normative fashion as ‘controlling stories’. The most fundamental stories associated [...]

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Jesus and his Narrative World

Jesus and His Narrative World
Jesus, as a Jew, along with his Jewish contemporaries, was living and perceived the world as part of an unfolding story, a story which, unlike post-modern counterparts, claimed to be the true story of the world.1 This continuing narrative looks back on the relationship between YHWH, the [...]

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Wright ‘Justification’: Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Rules of Engagement
In an interesting and stimulating chapter Wright sets forth some of his own methodology and concerns about Piper’s approach.
Wright reminds his readers of the danger of following a systematic approach to the bible which brings a ‘theology’ to the text rather than letting the text speak for itself. ‘But start with [...]

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Critical Review of Pitre’s ‘Jesus, the Tribulation and the End of Exile’

Here is a review and critique of Brant Pitre’s ‘Jesus, the Tribulation and the End of Exile’
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4

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The Tribulation and Second Temple Judaism: Dale Allison

Dale Allison ‘The End of the Ages Has Come’ (1985), writing twenty five years before Pitre(2005), seeks to show, amongst other things, that the ‘New Testament contains texts in which the death of Jesus is interpreted as belonging to the great tribulation and in which his resurrection is set forth as marking the onset [...]

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