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John the Baptist in History and Theology (Hardcover)
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John the Baptist in History and Theology (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on Personalities of the New Testament
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An analysis that challenges the conventional Christian hierarchy of
John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth. While the Christian
tradition has subordinated John the Baptist to Jesus of Nazareth,
John himself would likely have disagreed with that ranking. In John
the Baptist in History and Theology, Joel Marcus makes a powerful
case that John saw himself, not Jesus, as the proclaimer and
initiator of the kingdom of God and his own ministry as the center
of God's saving action in history. Marcus contends that biblical
and extrabiblical evidence reveals a continuing competition between
the two men that early Christians sought to muffle. Like Jesus,
John was an apocalyptic prophet who looked forward to the imminent
end of the world and the establishment of God's rule on earth.
Originally a member of the Dead Sea Sect, an apocalyptic community
within Judaism, John broke with the group over his growing
conviction that he himself was Elijah, the end-time prophet who
would inaugurate God's kingdom on earth. Jesus began his career as
a follower of the Baptist, but, like other successor figures in
religious history, he parted ways from his predecessor as he became
convinced of his own centrality in God's purposes. Meanwhile John's
mass following and apocalyptic message became political threats to
Herod Antipas, who had John executed to abort any revolutionary
movement. Based on close critical-historical readings of early
texts-including the accounts of John in the Gospels and in
Josephus's Antiquities-the book concludes with thoughtful
reflections on how its revisionist interpretations might be
incorporated into the Christian faith.
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