Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement TheoryRecent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart of Jesus' own mission to protect his own followers from the judgment of God. |
Contents
Part II The Reality of a Premature Death | 103 |
Part III A Ransom for Many | 157 |
Part IV Jesus and the Last Supper | 241 |
Works Cited | 375 |
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Subject Index | 449 |
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Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory Scot McKnight No preview available - 2006 |
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