Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory

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Baylor University Press, 2005 - Religion - 451 pages

Recent 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.

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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
Scripture Index
411
Author Index
439
Subject Index
449
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Scot McKnight is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, where he directs both a master's and doctor of ministry program in using context to interpret the New Testament. He is the author of more than seventy books, including commentaries on Colossians and Philemon and a book on Paul as Pastor. He has been married to Kris for more than forty-five years and has two children and two grandchildren.

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