Sublime

Christina M. Gschwandtner

The controversy-stories are highly likely to be historical at the core; but their meaning is not the one traditionally assigned to them. They were about eschatology and politics, not religion or morality. Eschatology: Israel’s hope was being realized, but it was happening in Jesus’ way, and at his initiative. Politics: the kingdom Jesus was

And third, even if they had so believed, the Jewish authorities would have exposed the whole affair simply by pointing to Jesus’ tomb or perhaps even exhuming the body as decisive proof that Jesus had not been raised.

tradition is the flow, the changing current, we, as Christians, live in.

Jerusalem;

Mark is the earliest of the four gospels, so this is a very early source, which most scholars think is based on eyewitness testimony.

One contributor to the problem is the erroneous belief that Genesis tells the whole biblical story of Noah’s flood. Even people who attend church regularly seem to think Genesis is the only book that speaks about Noah and the events of his day, but it isn’t.

and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. When Pilate, upon