Sublime

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A God of “justice and righteous ness” is a God who does what is just by doing what is right and does what is right by doing what is just.

this general thrust, of a very Jewish Jesus who was nevertheless opposed to some high-profile features of first-century Judaism, seems to me the most viable one if we are to do justice, not just to the evidence of the synoptic gospels (they, after all, are easy game for any critic who wants to avoid their implications) but more particularly to the

the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.

they stress the type and mode of divine rule—as distinct from the type and mode of imperial rule.