King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John's Gospel - Softcover

Barker, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281069670 ISBN 13: 9780281069675

Publisher: SPCK Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Only John's Gospel says that Jesus was crucified as Jesus the Nazorean, the King of the Jews. Jesus was the keeper of the ways of the first temple in Jerusalem. These had almost been lost when the Moses traditions came to dominate in the second-temple period. Jesus' mission was to restore the ways of the original temple. He entrusted his visions to John the Elder, a priestly disciple in Jerusalem, and John compiled them into the Book of Revelation. Later, John wrote his Gospel to show how the visions had been fulfilled. The background to the Fourth Gospel is temple tradition. John shows how Jesus' debates with the Jews centred on the great difference between the world of the second temple and the world of the priest-kings of the first temple from which Christianity emerged. The Johannine community were the Hebrew disciples of Jesus who saw themselves as the true high priesthood restored.

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Review:

Praise for Margaret Barker's other books: 'The scope of The Older Testament is vast . . . nothing less than a total history of Israelite religion and of the formation of the Old Testament, and once it has been assimilated, almost nothing will look the same again.' --Professor John Barton, University of Oxford

'In Temple Themes in Christian Worship, Margaret Barker, as always, deploys a great range of scholarly equipment to invite us to rethink quite radically many of the conventional readings of the New Testament . . . This book is full of insight and challenge; some of its conclusions will be controversial, but it is a wonderfully learned and creative essay, drawing together much neglected or misunderstood material in a compelling new synthesis.' --Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

From the Author:

Margaret Barker is a former President of the Society for Old Testament Studies and co-founder of the Temple Studies Group. She is a Methodist lay preacher.

About this edition

• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0281069670
• ISBN 13: 9780281069675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 648