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Craig A. Evans is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College, Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. The author or editor of more than 50 books and hundreds of articles, Evans is a regular guest on many national media outlets, including NBC, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, and the BBC. He is an internationally distinguished authority and lecturer on the historical Jesus. For more information, visit craigaevans.com.
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- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press (February 14, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0664239056
- ISBN-13: 978-0664239053
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
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Dr. Craig Evans is a household name to many. Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College, Dr. Evans is an internationally renowned scholar with notable expertise in historical Jesus studies and the Jewish background of the New Testament. His latest book, From Jesus to the Church, grew out of the Deichmann lectures delivered at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel in May of 2010. The purpose of the lecture series is to support scholarship that is concerned with the intersection of Judaism and Christianity.
The scope of this book is much narrower than the title might suggest. It's not a broad history of the first generation of the Christian church; rather, this study is a treatment of "the clash between the family of high priest Annas and the family of Jesus of Nazareth, a clash inaugurated by a Jeremiah-related prophecy of the temple’s doom, uttered by another man named Jesus. My goal is to draw attention to the importance of this prophecy, what motivated it, and the effects it had on both the followers of Jesus and on the followers of Annas, his family, and allies” (2).
Evans begins with what he refers to as an "ambiguous prophecy" about a ruler that would arise out of Israel, a prophecy known to both Jews and Romans; this treatment provides the context for the rest of the book. He discusses a variety of literature from the Hebrew Scriptures, Qumran scrolls, and Roman writings that contained prophecies concerning the destruction of Jerusalem and/or the Temple as well as well as expectations of an eschatological temple. In this way, Evans begins to trace out the dynamics of the conflict between Jesus and his followers on the one hand, and the Temple hierarchy led by Annas and his followers on the other.
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