King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John’s Gospel

by Margaret Barker

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2014

Overview

Only John’s Gospel says that Jesus was crucified as Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews. In this volume, Margaret Barker analyzes how Jesus was the keeper of the ways of the first temple in Jerusalem, which 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. Barker uses temple theology to show how the background to the fourth Gospel is temple tradition. John shows how Jesus’ debates with the Jews centered 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.

Product Details

• Title: King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John’s Gospel
• Author: Margaret Barker
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2014
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780281069675, 9780281069682
• Resource ID: LLS:KNGJWSTJHNSGSPL
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2020-11-12T17:54:11Z

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About Margaret Barker

Margaret Barker (born 1944), a Methodist preacher, studied theology at the University of Cambridge, after which she has devoted her life to research in ancient Christianity. She has developed an approach to Biblical studies known as Temple Theology. She was president of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1998, and in July 2008 she was awarded a DD by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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