Sublime

In the 18th century itself, William Paley (Natural Theology; Evidences) argued for the soundness of the biblical witness—both as to God’s hand in nature and as to the soundness of the New Testament portrait of Jesus;9 and Thomas Sherlock pointed out, in his legally orientated work The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus, that people

It is rife in Christianity, which has a passion for proclaiming its confident solutions

In Jesus’ parables, the disciples play the role of the seers, with Jesus himself as both revealer and interpreter of the ‘mystery’. As in the scrolls and other apocalyptic writings, this revelation is not the unveiling of abstract truth per se, but the disclosure of a subversive and dangerous message. Israel’s history is moving swiftly towards its

The context and content of Daniel 9 thus point to a complex grid of meaning for Mark 13 and its parallels: YHWH’s final faithfulness to the covenant, and his rescue of his faithful ones, is to come about paradoxically through the destruction of the rebuilt city, and also through the cutting off of an abandoned ‘anointed one’. These, I suggest, are

Thinking is a creative act that can disclose or discover new meanings in old stories, even if the way they are read departs from the interpretations of the scholars who have assumed ownership of the material.

The testimony of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran.

Christina M. Gschwandtner

I am convinced that his final point is basically correct: where conflict occurred, it was because of Jesus’ eschatological beliefs and agenda, rather than because of a clash of abstract religious or moral values or teachings.