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Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium is a 1999 book by New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman.In it, he argues that Jesus of Nazareth was an apocalyptic preacher, i.e., his main message was that the end of history was near, that God would shortly intervene to overthrow evil and establish his rule on earth, and that Jesus and his disciples all believed these end time events would ...
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195124743. Faber-Kaiser, A. (April 1977). Jesus died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Translated from the Spanish by M. G. Horwood. London: Gordon and Cremonesi. ISBN 978-0860330417. Original Spanish publication 1976.
In Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, Ehrman agrees with Albert Schweitzer's thesis that Jesus was a Jewish apocalyptic preacher and that his main message was that the end times were near, that God would shortly intervene to overthrow evil and establish his rule on Earth, and that Jesus and his disciples all believed these end ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 March 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
Jesus is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God and one in being with the Godhead. Christians regard Jesus as the awaited Messiah (or " Christ ") of the Old Testament and refer to him as Jesus Christ , [ a ] a name that is also used in non-Christian contexts.
The criterion of contextual credibility, [1] also variously called the criterion of Semitisms and Palestinian background [2] or the criterion of Semitic language phenomena and Palestinian environment, [3] is a tool used by Biblical scholars to help determine whether certain actions or sayings by Jesus in the New Testament are from the Historical Jesus.
The apocalyptic prophet view primarily emphasizes Jesus preparing his fellow Jews for the End Times. The first proponent of this hypothesis was Albert Schweitzer in his 1906 book The Quest of the Historical Jesus. [209] The works of E. P. Sanders and Maurice Casey place Jesus within the context of Jewish eschatological tradition.
The Olivet Discourse or Olivet prophecy is a biblical passage found in the Synoptic Gospels in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21.It is also known as the Little Apocalypse because it includes the use of apocalyptic language, and it includes Jesus's warning to his followers that they will suffer tribulation and persecution before the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God. [1]