Description
The Historical Jesus and the Temple offers a comprehensive examination of Jesus’s complex relationship with the Jerusalem Temple, combining rigorous historical methodology with careful textual analysis. Michael Patrick Barber and Dale Allison explore how early Christian communities, particularly through the Gospel of Matthew, remembered and interpreted Jesus’s teachings and actions regarding the Temple.
This work addresses fundamental questions about Jewish-Christian relations, the authority of religious institutions, and the theological implications of Jesus’s prophecies concerning the Temple’s destruction. The authors employ sophisticated memory theory and historical-critical methods to distinguish between what Jesus likely said and did versus later Christian interpretations and retellings.
By analyzing Matthew’s Gospel alongside other sources, the book reveals how early Christian theology developed in response to the Temple’s destruction in 70 CE, making it essential reading for scholars of early Christianity, New Testament studies, and Jewish-Christian history.
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